The Best Episodes Directed By John Madden

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.6/10(7 votes)

   #1 - Promised Land

   S5:E53/27/1991

   The search for a retired 'supergrass' takes Morse and Lewis from Oxford to the Australian outback. Strangely, Lewis is less at home down under than Morse himself is.

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   7.5/10(8 votes)

   #2 - Dead on Time

   S6:E12/26/1992

   Morse investigates the apparent suicide of a terminally ill Oxford don and finds he has a personal connection with the family. As the case develops, Lewis worries that Morse's professionalism is being undermined.

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   7.5/10(1 votes)

   #3 - Theseus & The Minotaur

   S1:E112/1/1991

   An Athenian storyteller and his dog take shelter in the labyrinth of Knossos. There he recounts the story of the minotaur confined to the maze by King Minos ten centuries earlier. When the young hero Theseus came of age, he began walking the heroes path. Reclaiming his rightful place as the son of Athenian king Aegeus, Theseus insisted in traveling to Crete to face the dreaded minotaur.

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   7.5/10(19 votes)

   #4 - The Lost Child

   S4:E14/30/1995

   Following her promotion, Jane Tennison returns to Southampton Row to head an investigation into the murder of a young child.

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   7.5/10(10 votes)

   #5 - The Priory School

   S3:E68/13/1986

   The Duke of Holdernesse needs Holmes's help when his son, Lord Arthur Saltire, is kidnapped from the Priory School. Holmes finds the connection between an old mystery and a teacher who has also gone missing.

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   7.2/10(9 votes)

   #6 - The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

   S5:E12/21/1991

   Watson, on holiday in the Lake District, meets the enigmatic Lady Frances Carfax, who is being haunted by the ghost of a horseman. Holmes decides to come up to join Watson, but by the time he arrives Lady Frances has vanished without trace. Holmes investigates and becomes very curious about the ghost.

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   7.1/10(10 votes)

   #7 - The Infernal Serpent

   S4:E11/3/1990

   Morse investigates a tangled web of university intrigue which surrounds the baffling murder of Dr Julian Dear, a college don and famous environmentalist who was killed just minutes before he was due to give a controversial lecture. It seems that the most respectable of academic families can have skeletons in the cupboard, and Morse has to put his job on the line to get at the truth.

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   7.0/10(26 votes)

   #8 - Pilot

   S1:E19/29/2013

   Dr. William Masters, Washington University’s foremost OB/GYN, runs a successful medical practice by day and conducts a secret study of human sexuality by night. Former nightclub singer Virginia Johnson joins the hospital secretarial staff and proves herself to be an asset to Masters’ work.

   Director:John Madden

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   6.8/10(13 votes)

   #9 - The Way Through the Woods

   S0:E111/29/1995

   When a serial killer is attacked and left for dead in prison, his dying confession disavows one of the murders he had previously confessed to. Morse wants to reopen the case.

   Director:John Madden

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