Kenneth Colley, Jenny Laird (Black Narcissus), Pat Heywood, Chris Ecclestone, Sam Kelly, Ann Bell, and the very recognisable Oliver Ford Davies as the wrongly accused man. Dexter is behind Morse at pub.
There are two lines in this which I think crop up in Endeavour. 1. Pathologist: 'I always use simple language where the police are involved' and 2. Morse is 'a great detective but a poor policeman'.
Death of retired detective links to old case of murder of little girl, who Morse discovered. Good original story. Features great aria - Puccini's 'Senza Mamma' from 'Suor Angelica'.
Fat Chance d. Roy Battersby, scr. Alma Cullen (one of her four. She also wrote a Morse-Lewis theatre play 'House of Ghosts' (also broadcast on Radio 4) in 2010, set in 1987.
Good pot shots at slimming industry (Lewis's wife Val is threatening to join) combined with death of activist female cleric. Intriguing storyline. Maurice Denham (elderly priest), David Gant (loopy cleric), Maggie O'Neill (Shameless, Eastenders), Caroline Ryder, Tilly Vosburgh.
Good aria this time from Mozart ('Vesperae Solemnes de Confessore').
Am I the only one who noticed the WPC at the station is referred to as 'Bright' - the daughter...?
Who Killed Harry Field? d. Colin Gregg, scr. Geoffrey Case.
Murdered artist is somehow connected to art forgery and a millionaire. Geraldine James, Ronald Pickup (Morse's art friend), John Castle, Vania Vilers, Freddie Jones.
Thaw's reactions are great, e.g. his very subtle facial expressions when talking to Nicola Cowper. But Whately's reactions also great: that 'here we go' look when Morse is in a mood.
When Lewis announces he won't be pursuing promotion (thus leaving Morse) for another year, at the end, you want a line from Morse, something, even 'I'm not unhappy to hear that, Lewis'. Does he ever call him by his first name?
Greeks Bearing Gifts d. Adrian Shergold, scr. Peter Nichols (Catch Us If You Can, Georgy Girl, A Day in the Life of Joe Egg, The National Health, Privates on Parade). With that distinguished lot you'd think it would be a cracking episode, but I found the ending particularly overwrought and stretched in the credibility department.
Still, fun along the way with Greek restaurants and shipping magnets, a dodgy property dealer and a trireme. With James Hazeldine, Jan Harvey, James Faulkner, Martin Jarvis. Dexter's a college porter.
I'm sure that swimming pool's featured in another episode...
Promised Land (or 'Morse Down Under') d. John Madden, scr. Julian Mitchell.
Indeed - it's almost a western, with Barrington's slide guitar, C&W sounding folk and a showdown at the old railway siding. Mitchell's sixth of ten, he definitely seems to be writing some of the best episodes. Morse and Lewis travel to New South Wales as the banged up 'Abingdon Gang' (see, western) might get out, and there's a missing link to a bad gangster.
Rhondda Findleton, John Jarratt, a young Noah Taylor, Max Phipps (detective) and Con O'Neill (whose distinctive husky Liverpudlian tones I recognised before seeing him, recently funny in Uncle).
Morse is especially grumpy as there's no decent beer, but in a moment of sublime tenderness calls Lewis 'Robbie' (for I think the first time).
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