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The Best Episodes of Endeavour

Every episode of Endeavour ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Endeavour!

Best episode
S6E4 Deguello
9.21,835 votes
Worst episode
S8E3 Terminus
7.61,355 votes
Top season
Season 9
8.6avg
Binge time
2d 4h
35 episodes
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Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Endeavour Season 6 Episode 4 - Deguello
    9.2/10(1835 votes)

    S6:E4

    When a librarian is gruesomely murdered at the Bodleian, Endeavour and Thursday have little to go on besides a set of muddy boot prints. With the two main suspects having their own motives for killing the librarian, Endeavour digs deeper into their backgrounds, tracking a trail that appears to connect to seemingly innocent college bequest.

    Director:Jamie Donoughue
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Endeavour Season 9 Episode 3 - Exeunt
    9.2/10(1613 votes)

    S9:E3

    A series of death notices in the Oxford Mail, each with a cryptic message, provides clues to Endeavour’s final investigation, while Thursday’s past catches up with him.

    Director:Kate Saxon
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  3. Endeavour Season 2 Episode 4 - Neverland
    8.9/10(1701 votes)

    S2:E4

    As 1966 draws to a close, the body of a disreputable journalist found in mysterious circumstances threatens to expose past horrors. As the investigation deepens, Endeavour and Thursday face corruption in Oxford's corridors of power.

    Director:Geoffrey Sax
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Endeavour Season 3 Episode 4 - Coda
    8.8/10(1500 votes)

    S3:E4

    Morse is recruited by an old college mentor to look into the safety of his estranged wife.

    Director:Olly Blackburn
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Endeavour Season 5 Episode 6 - Icarus
    8.8/10(1355 votes)

    S5:E6

    After the mysterious disappearance of a teacher, Endeavour finds himself investigating the dark and secret world of a public school.

    Director:Gordon Anderson
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  6. Endeavour Season 1 Episode 2 - Fugue
    8.6/10(1851 votes)

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Tom Vaughan
    Writers:Russell Lewis, Colin Dexter

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  7. Endeavour Season 9 Episode 2 - Uniform
    8.6/10(957 votes)

    S9:E2

    Endeavour suspects a connection between a woman's disappearance and her past employer but another missing persons case demands his attention. This time, it's a notable artist, whose work adorns the covers of a series of paperback mysteries.

    Director:Nirpal Bhogal
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  8. Endeavour Season 2 Episode 2 - Nocturne
    8.5/10(1687 votes)

    S2:E2

    A murder investigation sends Endeavour and DI Thursday to a girls' school which is haunted by memories of an atrocity committed a hundred years earlier.

    Director:Giuseppe Capotondi
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Endeavour Season 2 Episode 3 - Sway
    8.5/10(1502 votes)

    S2:E3

    As a multiple murderer haunts the city strangling married women with a silk stocking, Endeavour and DI Thursday's emotional lives are turned upside down.

    Director:Andy Wilson
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Endeavour Season 6 Episode 1 - Pylon
    8.5/10(1443 votes)

    S6:E1

    With the Cowley team scattered across Oxfordshire, Endeavour finds himself policing a lonely country patch, and back in uniform. His day job is a monotonous investigation of missing livestock and stolen tractors. But when he discovers the dead body of a missing schoolgirl, it opens this quiet backwater to the roar of Castle Gate CID – now staffed by Thursday and an old adversary, the newly promoted DCI Ronnie Box, alongside sidekick DS Alan Jago.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Endeavour Season 1 Episode 4 - Home
    8.4/10(1568 votes)

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Colm McCarthy
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Endeavour Season 5 Episode 5 - Quartet
    8.4/10(1253 votes)

    S5:E5

    An assassination attempt at an international sporting event opens a new case for Endeavour and Thursday, but their investigation is quickly brought to an unexpected end.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Endeavour Season 4 Episode 4 - Harvest
    8.4/10(1252 votes)

    S4:E4

    When a body is found in Bramford Mere, a marshland outside of Oxford, everyone assumes they are the remains of Dr Matthew Laxman, an Oxford botanist who mysteriously disappeared near the site five years earlier.

    Director:Jim Loach
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Endeavour Season 5 Episode 3 - Passenger
    8.4/10(1230 votes)

    S5:E3

    The railway takes centre stage as Endeavour investigates the disappearance of a local woman - with initial fears linking it to the unsolved murder of a teenager, killed several years earlier.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Endeavour Season 2 Episode 1 - Trove
    8.3/10(1517 votes)

    S2:E1

    A baffling suicide, an anguished father searching for his missing daughter and the robbery of medieval treasures strain the talents of DC Endeavour Morse.

    Director:Kristoffer Nyholm
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Endeavour Season 7 Episode 3 - Zenana
    8.3/10(1369 votes)

    S7:E3

    Endeavour uncovers a potential link between a series of peculiar accidents leading him to an all-women Oxford college determined to eschew co-education.

    Director:Kate Saxon
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  17. Endeavour Season 4 Episode 1 - Game
    8.2/10(1335 votes)

    S4:E1

    As Endeavour and Thursday deal with the heartbreak of Joan's departure, a death at East Cowley Slipper Baths hurls Oxford's Finest into their darkest adventure.

    Director:Ashley Pearce
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Endeavour Season 5 Episode 1 - Muse
    8.2/10(1405 votes)

    S5:E1

    The newly promoted Detective Sergeant Morse investigates when a famous international thief tries to steal a Faberge egg from an auction. The case leads to the gruesome murders of an academic and a gangster, and Morse is convinced the deaths are the work of the same man. As he struggles with his new responsibilities, he finds himself forced to mentor a younger partner.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Endeavour Season 1 Episode 1 - Girl
    8.2/10(1902 votes)

    S1:E1

    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 Oxford City Police, unimpressed with Morse's zeal, protests to Thursday that the bagman's position is a Detective Sergeant's job and the young constable is too inexperienced. Following the shooting of a vicar, Morse is reduced to general duties for dismissing a beautiful, but mentally unstable girl as a suspect and must continue his investigations alone despite warnings of possible dismissal from his superiors.

    Director:Edward Bazalgette
    Writers:Russell Lewis, Colin Dexter

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  20. Endeavour Season 9 Episode 1 - Prelude
    8.1/10(1069 votes)

    S9:E1

    Endeavour's return to duty at Castle Gate with a newfound sobriety coincides with a gruesome discovery in a college garden linked to an Oxford orchestra.

    Director:Shaun Evans
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  21. Endeavour Season 5 Episode 4 - Colours
    8.1/10(1219 votes)

    S5:E4

    A photo-shoot on an army base turns sinister when one of the models is found dead. But the investigation is complicated when Sam Thursday is revealed to be involved.

    Director:Robert Quinn
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Endeavour Season 6 Episode 3 - Confection
    8.1/10(1249 votes)

    S6:E3

    The murder of a chocolate factory owner during a local hunt leads Endeavour to the sleepy village of Chigton Green. When he learns of a vicious campaign of gossip and rumour, it seems likely that two murders are connected. One of the targets, a beautiful, single mother, captures Endeavour's attention, giving him food for thought about the future.

    Director:Leanne Welham
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Endeavour Season 3 Episode 2 - Arcadia
    8.1/10(1349 votes)

    S3:E2

    The shock death of an artist in a house fire leaves Oxford city police baffled.

    Director:Bryn Higgins
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Endeavour Season 1 Episode 3 - Rocket
    8.1/10(1607 votes)

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Craig Viveiros
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Endeavour Season 4 Episode 3 - Lazaretto
    8.0/10(1167 votes)

    S4:E3

    Whispers that Cowley General contains a cursed ward - and a seemingly innocuous death - set off a chain of events that lead Endeavour to investigate.

    Director:Börkur Sigthorsson
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Deguello" is the best rated episode of Endeavour. It scored 9.2/10 from 1,835 votes. Directed by Jamie Donoughue and written by Unknown, it aired on March 3, 2019.

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