Endeavour - Season 6 (2019 Russell Lewis)

Led Zeppelin rings in the changes in Plyon. Everything has changed, and it ain't funny.

Thursday has been demoted following Fancy's murder - hardly fair - and is working for Ronnie Box, who he addresses as 'Sir'. (You notice, though, that Morse never addresses him as 'Sir'. But he does still address Thursday that way even though technically he doesn't have to.) Morse is in uniform! Bright is running traffic! Morse is back in the police digs, and has a moustache. He and Joan are not on good terms. Win is barely speaking to Thursday - goes out every night - no sandwiches. The new Thames Valley station is horrible. (It 's not the AA HQ but The St Cross Building, University of Oxford.)

Despite being told to stick to his police duties, Morse manages to resolve the death of a young girl and the disappearance of another.

Morse's car registration is 264 Hz - the frequency of Middle C.

Apollo. Sean directed. The one with the Thunderbirds studio. And wife swapping. And 'Catharsis Therapy'. Strange has engineered it that Morse is back as a DS and out of uniform, at least. Mose is actually nasty to Joan... I mean, what's going on??

Morse / Shaun responds well (as character / director) to the daughter Sasha Willoughby, who as Q points out is more of a mother to the boy than his actual mother, the hideous Sophie Winkelman. Russell certainly does write some horrible women. The book reference here where behind the moon is a beautiful garden is.. 'The Garden Behind the Moon' by Howard Pyle (1895). (Just gone on a major tangent into his muscular sea paintings.) The daughter has been reading Cherokee myths and thinks Morse might be one of the 'moon-eyed people' who see better in the dark.

Endeavour / Russell Lewis won no awards of any kind whatsoever. Which is absolutely insane.

And Confection, the Happy Families / Marple episode. Another novel 'Jolly Hard Line' from that author Kent Finn, who we met in Game (Adam James) pops up again:

The paperback cover for one of his books ('Just for Jolly') was also being designed by the artist in Muse:

And here's an original, from Game:

'Jolly Hard Luck' is underneath. It's, cunningly, a tiny little study of how book designs changed over the years.