The Best Episodes of Lewis
Every episode of Lewis ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Lewis!
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Lewis" is "And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea", rated 8.4/10 from 917 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea" aired on 2/24/2008 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "What Lies Tangled (2)".
8.4/10 917 votes#1 - And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/24/2008
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.
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8.3/10 456 votes#2 - What Lies Tangled (2)
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2015
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: N/A
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8.1/10 694 votes#3 - Generation of Vipers
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 5/23/2012
Lewis and Hathaway are drawn into a world of virtual bullying, but very real murder, when a professor is found dead after her dating video is leaked online.
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8.1/10 562 votes#4 - Intelligent Design (1)
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2013
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.
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8.1/10 502 votes#5 - Intelligent Design (2)
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2013
The corpse of a missing student is discovered in the attic of a college chapel.
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8.1/10 516 votes#6 - Beyond Good and Evil (1)
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/2014
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.
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8.1/10 438 votes#7 - Beyond Good and Evil (2)
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/2014
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.
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8.0/10 635 votes#8 - The Gift of Promise
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 4/24/2011
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: N/A
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8.0/10 671 votes#9 - The Soul of Genius
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 5/16/2012
When a botanist accidentally digs up the body of the recently buried Murray Hawes, Lewis and Hathaway are set upon a seemingly impossible quest.
Director: N/A
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8.0/10 495 votes#10 - The Ramblin' Boy (2)
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/2013
Liam Jay is in intensive care and Lewis and Alex believe that he has information about the death of Matt Whiby and the mysterious cremation. It is revealed by Emma Barnes that Johnny Jay, Liam’s father, was at the fateful supper party and he is missing as well.
Director: N/A
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8.0/10 442 votes#11 - What Lies Tangled (1)
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2015
When an idyllic Oxford summer's day is torn asunder by a gruesome parcel bomb, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate.
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7.9/10 779 votes#12 - Allegory of Love
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 3/22/2009
Lewis investigates the murder of a beautiful young Eastern European woman whose death comes straight from the pages of a popular fantasy novel.
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7.9/10 754 votes#13 - The Quality of Mercy
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 3/29/2009
When Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the murder of a rising Oxford theatre star, they focus their suspicions on his acting colleagues.
Director: Bille Eltringham
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 758 votes#14 - The Dead of Winter
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 5/2/2010
After a body is found on an Oxford tour bus, Lewis and Hathaway are led to Crevecoeur Hall, a sprawling Oxford estate where Hathaway spent much of his childhood.
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7.9/10 713 votes#15 - Falling Darkness
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 5/30/2010
Lewis and Hathaway investigate the murder of a university friend of pathologist Laura Hobson. As more deaths occur, they realise that Laura's past may hold the key.
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7.9/10 658 votes#16 - The Mind Has Mountains
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 4/17/2011
The ethics of a questionable drug on the Oxford campus of anti-depressants calls into account the questionable judgment of a psychiatry professor.
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7.9/10 527 votes#17 - The Lions of Nemea (1)
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/2014
When a classics scholar is stabbed to death and dumped in the Oxford Canal, Lewis, Hathaway and Maddox find themselves sorely tested by a bizarre case.
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7.9/10 438 votes#18 - The Lions of Nemea (2)
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/2014
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?
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7.8/10 906 votes#19 - Whom the Gods Would Destroy
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/18/2007
Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate case involving one of the Oxford University's most prominent figures.
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7.8/10 824 votes#20 - Expiation
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/4/2007
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
7.8/10 758 votes#21 - Music to Die For
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/2/2008
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.
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7.8/10 898 votes#22 - Life Born of Fire
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/9/2008
When an old friend of Hathaway's commits suicide, Lewis investigates a link between his death and a religious group whose members are being targeted by a killer.
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7.8/10 694 votes#23 - The Point of Vanishing
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/5/2009
When religious fanatic Steven Mullan is murdered, Lewis investigates celebrity atheist Tom Rattenbury and his family, who had been attacked by Mullan.
Director: Maurice Phillips
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 692 votes#24 - Your Sudden Death Question
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 5/16/2010
On a bank holiday weekend Lewis and Hathaway are called in when a top quiz competitor is found floating dead in the fountain of an Oxford college.
Director: Dan Reed
Writer: Alan Plater
7.8/10 680 votes#25 - Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 4/3/2011
Oxford's last all-female college is holding a reunion party to say goodbye to one of its most popular professors. After a guest is found murdered, Lewis believes the killing is connected to an attack that happened at the same building 10 years ago. He turns to his former DS, Alison McLennan, to help him with the case, but it ends up taking a new twist after two more bodies turn up.
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