9.2/101,676 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
9.2/101,394 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
8.9/101,544 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
8.8/101,350 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
8.8/101,221 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
8.6/101,677 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
8.6/10811 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
8.5/101,506 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
8.5/101,340 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
8.5/101,317 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
8.4/101,402 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
8.4/101,132 votesLoading...
8.4/101,113 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
8.4/101,135 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
8.3/101,353 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
8.3/101,242 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
8.2/101,700 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
8.2/101,204 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
8.2/101,276 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
8.2/10917 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
8.1/101,448 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
8.1/101,213 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
8.1/101,100 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
8.1/101,130 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
8.0/101,430 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
Best Episodes Summary
"Deguello" is the best rated episode of "Endeavour". It scored 9.2/10 based on 1676 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".