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Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Lewis Season 2 Episode 4 - The Great and the Good
    9.0/10(744 votes)

    #1 - The Great and the Good

    S2:E4

    A rape case appears to be solved when the chief suspect is murdered. But nothing is what it seems - and soon the upper echelons of Oxford society close ranks.

    Director:Stuart Orme
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Lewis Season 8 Episode 6 - Beyond Good and Evil (2)
    9.0/10(482 votes)

    #2 - Beyond Good and Evil (2)

    S8:E6

    Hathaway and Maddox continue to investigate the murder of Travis as the trail leads back to Lewis’s original case. The two detectives attempt to prevent another murder and Lewis sees himself isolated and alone with his reputation in jeopardy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Lewis Season 4 Episode 2 - Dark Matter
    8.9/10(737 votes)

    #3 - Dark Matter

    S4:E2

    When the master of a college is found dead at the foot of the observatory stairs, suspicion falls on all of the staff - from senior tutors right down to the scouts.

    Director:Bille Eltringham
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Lewis Season 3 Episode 4 - Counter Culture Blues
    8.8/10(869 votes)

    #4 - Counter Culture Blues

    S3:E4

    When Lewis and Hathaway investigate a murder in town, forensic evidence leads them to suspect there is a connection with the reforming of an old rock band.

    Director:Bill Anderson
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Lewis Season 8 Episode 5 - Beyond Good and Evil (1)
    8.8/10(563 votes)

    #5 - Beyond Good and Evil (1)

    S8:E5

    Lewis' reputation is jeopardized when the very first case that he solved as a DI is reopened for appeal and new murders are committed with the original weapon.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Lewis Season 9 Episode 6 - What Lies Tangled (2)
    8.7/10(518 votes)

    #6 - What Lies Tangled (2)

    S9:E6

    With his six-month trip to New Zealand with Hobson on the horizon, Lewis is in a race against time to save his career and relationship.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Lewis Season 5 Episode 4 - The Gift of Promise
    8.5/10(704 votes)

    #7 - The Gift of Promise

    S5:E4

    When a local businesswoman is bludgeoned to death, it appears to be a blackmail plot gone wrong. As the body count rises, Lewis and Hathaway realize there is a decades-old secret at the heart of the case, which they must uncover to bring the present-day murders to a halt.

    Director:Metin Hüseyin
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Lewis Season 9 Episode 4 - Magnum Opus (2)
    8.5/10(469 votes)

    #8 - Magnum Opus (2)

    S9:E4

    Before the fourth murder takes place, the team must uncover the guilty secret that their victims share in order to learn the identity of both the killer and the potential victim.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Lewis Season 3 Episode 1 - Allegory of Love
    8.4/10(862 votes)

    #9 - Allegory of Love

    S3:E1

    Lewis investigates the murder of a beautiful young Eastern European woman whose death comes straight from the pages of a popular fantasy novel.

    Director:Bill Anderson
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Lewis Season 7 Episode 6 - Intelligent Design
    8.4/10(563 votes)

    #10 - Intelligent Design

    S7:E6

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Lewis Season 1 Episode 2 - Old School Ties
    8.3/10(898 votes)

    #11 - Old School Ties

    S1:E2

    Lewis comes face to face with his past in a case driven by celebrity, scheming, and dangerous sexual politics.

    Director:Sarah Harding
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Lewis Season 2 Episode 2 - Music to Die For
    8.3/10(833 votes)

    #12 - Music to Die For

    S2:E2

    Lewis and Hathaway investigate a link between the murder of a professor of German history and the recent winner of a local underground boxing bout.

    Director:Bill Anderson
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Lewis Season 7 Episode 1 - Down Among the Fearful
    8.2/10(645 votes)

    #13 - Down Among the Fearful

    S7:E1

    Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the death of Reuben Beatty who works at the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychology. He has been discovered dead injected by etorphine, a paralysing agent in the offices of psychic ‘Randolph James’.

    Director:Brian Kelly
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Lewis Season 8 Episode 2 - Entry Wounds (2)
    8.2/10(498 votes)

    #14 - Entry Wounds (2)

    S8:E2

    Hathaway's murder theory has fallen apart. It might take Lewis's insight to close the case - but will his former protege listen?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Lewis Season 9 Episode 2 - One for Sorrow (2)
    8.2/10(501 votes)

    #15 - One for Sorrow (2)

    S9:E2

    Lewis' team must delve into the worlds of social media, drugs, taxidermy, alternative art and the homeless East European community.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Lewis Season 9 Episode 5 - What Lies Tangled (1)
    8.2/10(501 votes)

    #16 - What Lies Tangled (1)

    S9:E5

    When an idyllic Oxford summer's day is torn asunder by a gruesome parcel bomb, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Lewis Season 1 Episode 3 - Expiation
    8.1/10(915 votes)

    #17 - Expiation

    S1:E3

    When an Oxford housewife is found hanged in her home, Lewis and Hathaway unearth a far darker murder case than the initial suicide verdict suggests.

    Director:Dan Reed
    Writer:Colin Dexter

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  18. Lewis Season 7 Episode 3 - The Ramblin' Boy
    8.1/10(637 votes)

    #18 - The Ramblin' Boy

    S7:E3

    An embalmed body is discovered dumped by an isolated farm track. Funeral director Brian Miller identifies the body and GP Matt Whitby confirms the gentleman died of cancer.

    Director:Daniel Reed
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Lewis Season 5 Episode 3 - The Mind Has Mountains
    8.0/10(721 votes)

    #19 - The Mind Has Mountains

    S5:E3

    The ethics of a questionable drug on the Oxford campus of anti-depressants calls into account the questionable judgment of a psychiatry professor.

    Director:Charles Palmer
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Lewis Season 7 Episode 4 - The Ramblin' Boy
    8.0/10(552 votes)

    #20 - The Ramblin' Boy

    S7:E4

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Lewis Season 8 Episode 4 - The Lions of Nemea (2)
    8.0/10(495 votes)

    #21 - The Lions of Nemea (2)

    S8:E4

    After a difficult start, Lewis and Hathaway's partnership seems to have gained some semblance of normality. DS Maddox has become a part of the team. Her abilities will be put to the test when an investigation begins on the brutal murder of an American classics student Rose Anderson Her body is hauled from the canal with a stand wound to the neck and abdomen. Suspicious soon fall on astrophysics professor, Felix Garwood who had recently broken off an affair with Rose. However, Felix was married to Rose's supervisor, Philippa Garwood. Could the jealous wife have committed such a murder?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Lewis Season 2 Episode 1 - And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea
    7.9/10(1022 votes)

    #22 - And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea

    S2:E1

    When a man is found dead at the Bodleian Library, Lewis investigates a link between the death and an intruder on a local professor's property.

    Director:Dan Reed
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Lewis Season 6 Episode 3 - Fearful Symmetry
    7.9/10(701 votes)

    #23 - Fearful Symmetry

    S6:E3

    When a babysitter is found dead, Lewis and Hathaway are drawn into diverse new worlds including squats, swinging suburbia, primate labs and fetish photography.

    Director:Nicholas Renton
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Lewis Season 7 Episode 2 - Down Among the Fearful
    7.9/10(554 votes)

    #24 - Down Among the Fearful

    S7:E2

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Lewis Season 7 Episode 5 - Intelligent Design
    7.9/10(621 votes)

    #25 - Intelligent Design

    S7:E5

    As Lewis and Hobson embark on a relationship, a former don is murdered on the night of his release from prison - crushed to death by a Jaguar Mark two.

    Director:Tim Fywell
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Great and the Good" is the best rated episode of "Lewis". It scored 9/10 based on 744 votes. Directed by Stuart Orme and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/16/2008. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Beyond Good and Evil (2)".