- 9.2/101,691 votesLoading...
#1 - Deguello
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 3/3/2019
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.2/101,411 votesLoading...
#2 - Exeunt
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 3/12/2023
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
- 8.9/101,554 votesLoading...
#3 - Neverland
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/20/2014
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: N/A
- 8.8/101,358 votesLoading...
#4 - Coda
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/2016
Morse is recruited by an old college mentor to look into the safety of his estranged wife.
Director: Olly Blackburn
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/101,230 votesLoading...
#5 - Icarus
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 3/11/2018
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
- 8.6/101,696 votesLoading...
#6 - Fugue
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/21/2013
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
Writer: Russell Lewis, Colin Dexter
- 8.6/10827 votesLoading...
#7 - Uniform
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 3/5/2023
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
- 8.5/101,520 votesLoading...
#8 - Nocturne
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/6/2014
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: N/A
- 8.5/101,352 votesLoading...
#9 - Sway
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/13/2014
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: N/A
- 8.5/101,327 votesLoading...
#10 - Pylon
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 2/10/2019
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/101,416 votesLoading...
#11 - Home
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/5/2013
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: N/A
- 8.4/101,142 votesLoading...
- 8.4/101,119 votesLoading...
#13 - Passenger
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 2/18/2018
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/101,143 votesLoading...
#14 - Quartet
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 3/4/2018
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/101,364 votesLoading...
#15 - Trove
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/30/2014
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: N/A
- 8.3/101,251 votesLoading...
#16 - Zenana
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/2020
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
- 8.2/101,717 votesLoading...
#17 - Girl
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/14/2013
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
Writer: Russell Lewis, Colin Dexter
- 8.2/101,209 votesLoading...
#18 - Game
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2017
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: N/A
- 8.2/101,285 votesLoading...
#19 - Muse
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 2/4/2018
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10935 votesLoading...
#20 - Prelude
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 2/26/2023
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
- 8.1/101,458 votesLoading...
#21 - Rocket
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/28/2013
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: N/A
- 8.1/101,220 votesLoading...
#22 - Arcadia
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/2016
The shock death of an artist in a house fire leaves Oxford city police baffled.
Director: Bryn Higgins
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/101,109 votesLoading...
#23 - Colours
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 2/25/2018
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/101,137 votesLoading...
#24 - Confection
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 2/24/2019
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101,438 votesLoading...
#25 - Ride
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/2016
A vanishing bus conductress and a raucous funfair draw DC Endeavour Morse back to duty.
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Endeavour
Every episode of Endeavour ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Endeavour!
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:ITV1
Episodes
35
Avg. Rating
8.3
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
8.2
8.3
8.0
8.2
8.6
8.5
8.1
7.8
8.1
8.5
8.0
8.0
Best Episodes Summary
"Deguello" is the best rated episode of "Endeavour". It scored 9.2/10 based on 1691 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/3/2019. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Exeunt".