Episode One – Girl

Endeavour is sceptical when the death of a student is put down to a heart attack. Now based at Cowley station, he has is working for DI Thursday, though the new superintendent considers him too junior for the job. When the body of a GP is later discovered, Endeavour’s theories get him sidelined to general duties, but he feels compelled to go out on a limb on another line of inquiry involving a physicist and a single mother.

Cast

  • Alan Morrissey as Denis Bradley
  • Albert Welling as Wallace Clark
  • Anton Lesser as Chief Superintendent Bright
  • Anton Lesser as DS Reginald Bright
  • Billy Geraghty as Gas Man ‘Watkins’
  • Dominic Taylor as Dr Frank Cartwright
  • Fiona Ryan as Margaret Bell
  • Jack Laskey as DS Peter Jakes
  • James Bradshaw as Dr Max DeBryn
  • John Flanagan as Mr Greaves
  • Jonathan Guy Lewis as Reverend Monkford
  • Jonathan Hyde as Sir Edmund Sloan
  • Luke Allen-Gale as Derek Clark
  • Mark Bazeley as Dr Bill Prentice
  • Olivia Grant as Helen Cartwright
  • Roger Allam as DI Fred Thursday
  • Sean Rigby as PC Jim Strange
  • Shaun Evans as DC Endeavour Morse
  • Sophie Stuckey as Pamela Walters
  • Will Richards as Brian Powell

Episode Two – Fugue

An unknown menace is stalking Oxford and striking fear into the hearts of its citizens. Although the killer appears to be a deranged lunatic striking at random, Endeavour uncovers an underlying method to the madness, and the elaborate staging of the crimes suggests that the killer shares Endeavour’s passion for opera.

Cast

  • Abigail Thaw as Dorothea Frazil
  • Anton Lesser as Chief Superindendent Bright
  • Caroline O’Neill as Win Thursday
  • Claire Vousden as Miss Crane
  • Geoffrey Streatfeild as Dr Daniel Cronyn/Marcus Gull
  • Iain McKee as Lionel Balfour
  • Jack Bannon as Sam Thursday
  • Jack Laskey as DS Peter Jakes
  • James Bradshaw as Dr Max DeBryn
  • Joanna Horton as Linda Snow
  • Kelly Price as Evelyn Balfour
  • Laura Rees as Faye Madison
  • Lavinia Bertram as Grace Madison
  • Lex Shrapnel as Roy Adamson
  • Michelle Morris as Neighbour
  • Paul Bullion as Gerry Olderby
  • Robert Blythe as Farmer Oakshott
  • Robin Soans as Ivan Straker
  • Roger Allam as DI Fred Thursday
  • Sara Vickers as Joan Thursday
  • Sarah Crowden as Miss Thornhill
  • Sean Rigby as PC Jim Strange
  • Shaun Evans as DC Endeavour Morse
  • Will Featherstone as Phillip Madison

Episode Three – Rocket

When Princess Margaret unveils the British Imperial Electric Company’s new missile, Endeavour is excluded from the event. But when a worker is found murdered in a secluded area of the shop floor, he finds himself embroiled in the affairs of the factory and its owners, the Broom family. One of the dead man’s colleagues becomes the prime suspect and under pressure from above, CS Bright is eager for the case to be resolved as quickly as possible. But Endeavour remains unconvinced that the murder is such an open-and-shut case.

Cast

  • Abigail Thaw as Dorothea Frazil
  • Anton Lesser as Chief Superindendent Bright
  • Craig Parkinson as Reg Tracepurcel
  • Craige Els as Factory Worker
  • Darwin Shaw as Crown Prince Nabil
  • Ellie Beaven as Marigold Proctor
  • Jack Laskey as DS Peter Jakes
  • Jack Roth as Lenny Frost
  • James Bradshaw as Dr Max DeBryn
  • James Merry as Percy Malleson
  • James Northcote as Johnny Broom
  • Jenny Seagrove as Nora Broom
  • Joanna Cassidy as Brenda Grice
  • Maimie McCoy as Alice Vexin
  • Martin Jarvis as Henry Broom
  • Roger Allam as DI Fred Thursday
  • Rosalind Halstead as Estella Broom
  • Sean Rigby as PC Jim Strange
  • Shaun Evans as DC Endeavour Morse
  • Tim Stern as Cribb’s Bootmaker
  • William Brand as Dr Werner Volk
  • William Houston as Richard Broom

Episode Four – Home

When a hit-and-run accident claims the life of an eminent classics professor, events are set in motion which will lead to the Moonlight Rooms nightclub and a blood reckoning. The case is complicated by the appearance of Vic Kasper, DI Fred Thursday’s old gangland enemy, whose arrival in Oxford carries a direct threat to all Thursday holds dear. While Endeavour is visiting his ailing father in Lincolnshire, Thursday is left to face his nemesis alone.

Cast

  • Abigail Thaw as Dorothea Frazil
  • Alan Williams as Cyril Morse
  • Anton Lesser as Chief Superintendent Bright
  • Caroline O’Neill as Win Thursday
  • Chris Barnes as Albert Gudgeon
  • Clive Wood as Vic Kasper
  • Edmund Kingsley as Mark Carlisle
  • Guy Williams as Jolyon Frobisher
  • Jack Laskey as DS Peter Jakes
  • James Bradshaw as Dr Max DeBryn
  • Jamie Glover as Dr Ian Kern
  • John Hollingsworth as Taxi Driver
  • Kelly Adams as Cynthia Riley
  • Lloyd McGuire as Charlie Ayres
  • Louise Dylan as Judy Vallens
  • Lynda Rooke as Gwen Morse
  • Marilyn O’Brien as Prue Carter
  • Nick Court as Vince Kasper
  • Paul Venables as Professor Alistair Coke Norris
  • Poppy Miller as Millicent Coke Norris
  • Richard Hawley as Morris Cubitt
  • Roger Allam as DI Fred Thursday
  • Sara Vickers as Joan Thursday
  • Sean Rigby as PC Jim Strange
  • Shaun Evans as DC Endeavour Morse
  • Sonya Cassidy as Joyce Morse

Endeavour begins the 9th and final Series on Sunday 26 February, ITV1 at 8pm

You can watch Series 1-8 on ITVX

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