Season 4
June 1967. Since the dramatic finale of Season 3, Oxford's finest are picking up the pieces of their personal and professional lives.
DC Endeavour Morse awaits the result of his Sergeant's Exam, while DI Fred Thursday and his wife Win struggle to cope with their children flying the nest; Sam gone to the Army and the traumatised Joan... who knows where?
But there are even greater challenges to face. The Summer of Love is on the turn, and the Oxford City Police finds itself caught on the frontier of the future; computers, pop music, the National Health, nuclear power, the struggle between old and new played out on the battleground of Oxford.
For every force for progress there is one with ill intention, and Endeavour, Thursday and colleagues are plunged into their most perilous, baffling and terrifying cases to date.
The future is within touching distance in the first film, as Lovelace College is taken over by a team of research scientists who are developing a calculating, 'thinking' machine to equal and even outstrip the capabilities of man's own mind.
Named the Joint Computing Nexus (JCN or Jason for short), the forwardthinking technology will plunge Endeavour and Thursday into their most perilous, baffling and darkly terrifying case to date.
Throwing himself into his work to mask the heartache of Joan leaving, Endeavour is quickly consumed by his duties when one of the research team is found drowned near Magdalen Bridge. Assuming it to be a suicide on first inspection, the circumstances become more suspicious when two more victims are also found drowned.
Is there more to the deaths than meets the eye?
Marking the 30th anniversary of the first broadcast of Inspector Morse on ITV, the fourth season sees star Shaun Evans (War Book, The Scandalous Lady W) reprise his role as the young Endeavour Morse alongside stage and screen actor Roger Allam (The Missing, The Lady in the Van) as mentor, Detective Inspector Fred Thursday, for a brand new set of complex cases.
Also starring this season are Anton Lesser as Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright, Sean Rigby as PC Jim Strange, James Bradshaw as Doctor Max deBryn, Caroline O'Neil as Win Thursday, Dakota Blue Richards as WPC Shirley Trewlove, and Abigail Thaw as Dorothea Frazil.
Russell Lewis serves as Executive Producer alongside Mammoth Screen's Damien Timmer and Michele Buck, and Dan McCulloch (original Endeavour Producer, Indian Summers). Tom Mullens (Black Work, New Tricks, Waterloo Road) produces the new season.