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Endeavour: Series 1

4 episodes Premiered Apr 14, 2013 Updated Jul 20, 2026

Endeavour season 1 is the first full series of the pre‑quel to the long‑running Inspector Morse franchise. The show follows the early career of a young Endeavour Morse, then a constable with the Oxford City Police, who is dissatisfied with police work and contemplates resigning. Set in 1965, the series continues the narrative begun by the 2012 pilot episode, also placed in that year. The first series was broadcast in

Season overview

Endeavour season 1 is the first full series of the pre‑quel to the long‑running Inspector Morse franchise. The show follows the early career of a young Endeavour Morse, then a constable with the Oxford City Police, who is dissatisfied with police work and contemplates resigning. Set in 1965, the series continues the narrative begun by the 2012 pilot episode, also placed in that year. The first series was broadcast in 2013, establishing the period backdrop that would be explored through nine series covering the years 1965 to 1972. As the third installment in the overall Morse universe—following the original Inspector Morse (1987‑2000) and its spin‑off Lewis (2006‑2015)—season 1 introduces Morse’s

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Episodes

S1·E1

Girl

Apr 14, 2013 · 90 min

The sudden death of a secretarial student and the shooting of a doctor appear unconnected despite Morse's theories. Chief Superintendent Bright, the new commanding officer of the O

S1·E2

Fugue

Apr 21, 2013 · 90 min

There is a new kind of killer haunting the Oxford twilight. Endeavour and Thursday find the city's dreaming spires giving way to waking nightmare.

S1·E3

Rocket

Apr 28, 2013 · 90 min

When a worker at a missile factory is murdered, Bright wants the case resolved quickly, but Endeavour remains unconvinced that the crime is such an open-and-shut case.

S1·E4

Home

May 5, 2013 · 90 min

A hit and run accident claims the life of an eminent Classics Professor forcing Endeavour and Thursday to each face their past. Not every story has a happy ending.