Inspector Morse - Complete (Digi Stack) (Box Set) (DVD)

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The best detective since Poirot!

5 May 18th, 2007

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I love this series. The characters and plots are complex enough to allow you to watch them over and over again. There are many layers and great with to each one and I find new things in them every time I watch them.

When the Morse series was commissioned, it was thought that there would be only a few episodes. How wrong they were! And that is before all the tribute showings after Thaw's death and Morse weekends on ITV3.

Inspector Morse (played by John Thaw) is a Chief Inspector in the Thames Valley police. He loves opera, real ale, art, literature and doing the Times crossword. He is also irrascible, bad tempered, stubborn and very unlucky in love (he tends to fall for ladies who are either the culprit or who played a supporting role).

He is helped by the loveable Sergeant Lewis (Kevin Whately) who supports Morse through thick and thin and puts up with his bad temper.

One of the nicest things about the series is watching these main characters develop and their relationship grow, first to respect, then to friendship.

The third key character is Oxford, both town and gown. There are some beautiful shots of the countryside and most episodes are set in various colleges.

Although mainly a "whodunnit", there is good characterisation and empahsis on why crimes were commited. The viewer is led to feel sympathy for many of the characters and the positions that they find themselves in. The authors (it is based on Dexter's character but he did not write them all), are not scared to tackle some horrible crimes but they do so with a light touch and the programme does not become ghoulish.

There are some great supporting actors and you will have endless fun working out what else they were in. My favourite is the Emperor in Masonic Mysteries.

Being very sad, I have refused to watch the last episode, the Remorseful Day. I am sure you all know the ending, but if I don't actually see it, it didn't happen!

If you like Morse I would recommend the box set. It is attractive and quite robust. You will be surprised just how often you will watch them and you will save a fortune over buying them individually through Amazon. Individual episodes are to be had quite cheaply on ebay at the time of writing though.

Episodes are:
The Dead of Jericho
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
Service Of All the Dead
The Wolvercot Tongue
Last Seen Wearing
The Settling of the Sun
The Last Bus to Woodstock
The Ghost in the Machine
The Last Enemy
Deceived By Flight
The Secret of Bay 5b
The Infernal Serpent
The Sins of the Fathers
Driven to Distraction
Masonic Mysteries
Second Time Around
Fat Chance
Who Killed Harry Field?
Greeks Bearing Gifts
Promised Land
Dead on Time
Happy Families
The Death of the Self
Absolute Conviction
Cherubim and Seraphim
Deadly Slumber
The Day of the Devil
Twilight of the Gods
The Way Through the Woods
The Daughters of Cain
Death is Now My Neighbour
The Wench is Dead
The Remorseful Day 

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Newboy3

Newboy3

20.07.2007 10:25

A good interesting review. ...I've never got into this series though I admire John Thaw in other dramas...Tony

sifair

sifair

19.05.2007 09:19

Good review

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