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Endeavour 9th & final season starts 26 February 2023 at 8pm on ITV

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IwantToRetire · 19/02/2023 18:44

2023’s final trilogy of films will find Endeavour and Thursday entering a new era of change both professionally and personally.

Set in the spring of 1972, the final season’s opening episode is directed by none other than Endeavour star Shaun Evans.

The synopsis for the story reads: “Two unexplained deaths turn up ties to the Oxford Concert Orchestra, while a body discovered in a derelict warehouse stokes fears that ‘London business’ has yet again found its way to Oxford.

“Thursday and Endeavour’s investigation unearths some unsettling connections to cases the duo believed were well and truly behind them.”

britishperioddramas.com/news/endeavour-season-9-release-date-itv-february-2023/

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diddl · 03/03/2023 13:06

TheAdmiralAndFishermanFavorEntirelyDifferentPies · 03/03/2023 13:00

My Morse rematch continues and I've just seen a very, very young Roger Allam.

Death is Now my Neighbour.

Richard Briers is fab in it!

That's the one where they discover Morse's first name isn't it?

And Lewis says something like "you poor sod!"

diddl · 03/03/2023 13:53

Was going to watch the pilot ep of Endeavour but it isn't there!

KrasiTime · 03/03/2023 14:04

I will cry huge big ugly fat tears if Fred Thursday is dodgy. But I cannot see any other way he won’t have been mentioned by Thaw’s Morse otherwise.

Tidsleytiddy · 03/03/2023 14:15

IwantToRetire · 27/02/2023 18:33

Funnily enough I can see Strange turning into the Strange of the original Morse. And why given these early years why he was so exasperated with Morse as he had played the game to get where he was as Morse boss, but also explains why he late the later Morse treat him in a fairly patronising way.

But the big weaknes now is the Joan storyline. As said up thread Morse has shown himself quite impulsive towards other women (as the later Morse) but with Joan its all Miss Thursday as though she is some sort of delicate flower, which the storylines have shown she isn't. And even allowing for the fact she is the bosses story its all a bit silly now.

And I thought that for Morse the big tradegy was the woman he was engaged to but her family thought he not good enough, class and work. Wasn't there an episode where they met up later in life?

But she is never referred to in Endeavour although this would be relatively recent in the early episodes.

And of course the huge inexplicable lack of reference to Thursday in the original Morse.

Maybe in the early Endeavour Thursday wasn't going to be there throughout but he became such a popular character they kept him in"

But maybe if the gap is 15 years there is time for him to become the boring intellectual snob and ungracious person of the original Morse.

The girl was Susan. They met up again in the episode Dead on Time. She had married their tutor Henry Fallon

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IwantToRetire · 03/03/2023 16:33

Have just finish watching Better (BBC mondays) which has such a bizarre ending, but ... it did have Anton Lesser being virtually the opposite of Bright, and very convincing.

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diddl · 05/03/2023 08:44

diddl · 03/03/2023 13:53

Was going to watch the pilot ep of Endeavour but it isn't there!

Talking to myself here but have just found it under "other episodes".

Just in case anyone else is as daft as me & assumed that the pilot would be the fist in series 1!

CaptainMyCaptain · 05/03/2023 09:38

diddl · 05/03/2023 08:44

Talking to myself here but have just found it under "other episodes".

Just in case anyone else is as daft as me & assumed that the pilot would be the fist in series 1!

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Is that on ItvX?

MrMarkham · 05/03/2023 09:38

I'm beginning to think the whole Thursday family is going to get killed off and it's just too painful for Morse and Strange to ever refer to again...

SlipSlidinAway · 05/03/2023 09:45

Can't remember where the new post/promotion was that Bright wants to put Thursday forward for, but maybe he takes that and moves away. Provides a reason for him not being in Morse?

CaptainMyCaptain · 05/03/2023 09:52

SlipSlidinAway · 05/03/2023 09:45

Can't remember where the new post/promotion was that Bright wants to put Thursday forward for, but maybe he takes that and moves away. Provides a reason for him not being in Morse?

I think it was in a New Town.

CaptainMyCaptain · 05/03/2023 09:52

A made up one.

Tidsleytiddy · 05/03/2023 09:58

diddl · 28/02/2023 07:08

Grayling something or other?

Doesn't he call her "my dear"?

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Morse asks “what’s a nice girl like you doing in a job like this?” To which she replies “how do you know I’m a nice girl?”

diddl · 05/03/2023 10:14

CaptainMyCaptain · 05/03/2023 09:38

Is that on ItvX?

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Yes.

CaptainMyCaptain · 05/03/2023 11:07

diddl · 05/03/2023 10:14

Yes.

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Thanks @diddl I'll watch that. I think I missed that in the beginning

diddl · 05/03/2023 15:48

I'm just watching it & have noticed the Vicar from Call the Midwife, Anthony Head's youngest daughter, Danny Webb who was also in the pilot of Lewis & Richard Lintern who was also in an Epof Lewis.

Lalgarh · 05/03/2023 20:12

Tonight's is Meta.

Cough Bullingdon Club cough

Crumpetdisappointment · 05/03/2023 20:20

Missed the beginning, who killed the man, the Oxford students?

topcat2014 · 05/03/2023 20:35

The back story about the children's home: I don't recall it from previous series?

LIZS · 05/03/2023 20:46

Mr Benn's shopkeeper!

Lalgarh · 05/03/2023 20:49

Oh god! It is! And the dead actor Raymond Swan. Slight Withnail reference (Raymond Duck)

diddl · 05/03/2023 21:23

topcat2014 · 05/03/2023 20:35

The back story about the children's home: I don't recall it from previous series?

Think it was series 2?

justasking111 · 05/03/2023 21:46

Lalgarh · 05/03/2023 20:12

Tonight's is Meta.

Cough Bullingdon Club cough

Snap!! 😂😂

AccidentallyFabulous · 05/03/2023 22:04

So they have one episode left to get justice for the children from the home. And little Pete turned up.… I fear my heart will be breaking next week.

Decorhate · 05/03/2023 22:05

Who was that at the door at the end?

Lalgarh · 05/03/2023 22:08

Jakes. Left in series 3 I think. Link to the Blenheim Vale business

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