Any Endeavour fans?

[icelolly99]

Who watched first episode of new series; i love watching Shaun Evans as young Morse.

MontalbanoFan Did you watch the series with the armed robbery at the bank Joan worked at? From memory it all started from that. Anyone else with a better explanation?

After the robbery Joan left and nobody knew where she was. If I remember right, Morse tracked her down to an apartment where she was living as a 'kept woman'. Thursday also found out and naturally didn't approve. I don't think it's particularly coldness they have toward each other. I think he probably doesn't know how to deal with his dd not behaving respectably and she doesn't know how to deal with his obvious disapproval. In the last episode, when she went into his office, I thought if they hadn't been interrupted there might have been some hugging.

And she worried her mother half to death by vanishing and not getting in touch. I would imagine Thursday is hurt by that and so switched off towards her. It was odd behaviour on her part. No card, no letter - it was cruel of her.

Thank you, icelolly,blue and lizzy. It’s coming back to me a bit now.

Wasnt she pregnant? Morse offered to marry her?

I would say Joan is suffering from what today would be PTSD after the bank robbery and all that it entailed.

I really love that Win (his wife) calls Thursday 'Dad' even when the children (who are now adults) are nowhere near.

And the casting of Matey Strange and young Max DeBryn is just inspired. So well done.

I've just checked this - it's 1967 in Endeavourland iirc, and that's 20 years before Morse started so we should be able to get in a few more series before the lovely but poorly spelt Shaun Evans has to hit the peroxide.

I thought Morse was still set in the late 60s at the start, even though it was made in 1987 - that's why they were worried about doing more than a couple of Endeavour seasons, before it started to overlap.
Still I think they could do a few more, even if it's all within a year or something - they don't have to concentrate too much on the continuing story-lines of some of the characters that might give it away how much time had passed.

Joan had a fall, or was attacked by her married man, and the hospital called Morse as they had his details. He turned up at the hospital, and the doctor assumed that he was Joan’s husband, and said something about being sorry, but you can try again in the future, and Morse realises that Joan was pregnant. He hasn’t mentioned it to anyone.

Thanks, PhuntSox and CoolCarrie, I had a feeling that she’d been pregnant. I’d like to watch the series again from the beginning because it’s only now I’m really getting into it.

Thanks Carrie, I had forgotten that bit!

I love Endeavour too. Shaun was also in a period drama (about a wife who was being abused) IIRC, where he played the villainous husband he was bloody fantastic, such a good actor!

I love it. Some fantastic character acting.

If anyone hears of any theatre productions Shaun Evans is appearing in please comment on here. 👍

There were 33 episodes of Morse and 33 episodes of Lewis made and I remember Kevin Whitely saying that the producers, and himself, had agreed that the amount of episodes of Lewis shouldn’t be more than Morse, so it will probably be the same with Endeavour, 33 in total.

I hope they make a series or two of Hathaway!

Phunt - I'd watch Hathaway !

Me too!

I used to live in jericho. We got offered a stay in a hotel once when they were filming scene for Lewis which involved blowing up a neighbouring house in the middle of the night. We decided to stay and watch as we were opposite and not in the way. Was very interesting!

Love location spotting

I’m not enjoying this series as much as the previous ones.

Also I’m not sure the later Morse would have had a one night stand when staying elsewhere. But then I did lots of things when I was younger that I wouldn’t do now

Also we know he ends up single & a miserable sod with Susan being the love of his life so I’m not sure all this with all these other women adds anything really.

Wasn't he a womanizer in the books?

I don't think he was a womaniser , more susceptible to female charm .

Dh is from Oxford so it’s handy to have him watching along for location advice. He’s often reading or doing something else so when I spot a lovely quad I say 'Where's that, then?'. He'll glance up, peer for moment, then say 'it's Exeter [College]' or whatever, then go back to his book. Very companionable on a Sunday night!

Hathaway used to be married to Billy Piper.

Happy to be corrected, I haven't read any of them. He was no celibate monk so it fits that he would sleep with people.