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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 1 - And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea
    8.4/10(1046 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Lewis Season 9 Episode 6 - What Lies Tangled (2)
    8.3/10(523 votes)

    #2 - 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:David Drury
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Lewis Season 7 Episode 6 - Intelligent Design (2)
    8.2/10(572 votes)

    #3 - Intelligent Design (2)

    S7:E6

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Lewis Season 5 Episode 4 - The Gift of Promise
    8.1/10(720 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Lewis Season 6 Episode 2 - Generation of Vipers
    8.1/10(793 votes)

    #5 - Generation of Vipers

    S6:E2

    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.

    Director:David O'Neill
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Lewis Season 7 Episode 5 - Intelligent Design (1)
    8.1/10(632 votes)

    #6 - Intelligent Design (1)

    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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  7. Lewis Season 8 Episode 5 - Beyond Good and Evil (1)
    8.1/10(572 votes)

    #7 - 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. 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:David Drury
    Writers:Steve Coombes, Noel Farragher

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  8. Lewis Season 8 Episode 6 - Beyond Good and Evil (2)
    8.1/10(488 votes)

    #8 - Beyond Good and Evil (2)

    S8:E6

    No description available

    Director:David Drury
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Lewis Season 9 Episode 5 - What Lies Tangled (1)
    8.1/10(507 votes)

    #9 - 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:David Drury
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Lewis Season 3 Episode 2 - The Quality of Mercy
    8.0/10(836 votes)

    #10 - The Quality of Mercy

    S3:E2

    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:Unknown

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  11. Lewis Season 4 Episode 1 - The Dead of Winter
    8.0/10(854 votes)

    #11 - The Dead of Winter

    S4:E1

    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.

    Director:Bill Anderson
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Lewis Season 6 Episode 1 - The Soul of Genius
    8.0/10(773 votes)

    #12 - The Soul of Genius

    S6:E1

    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:Brian Kelly
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Lewis Season 7 Episode 4 - The Ramblin' Boy (2)
    8.0/10(562 votes)

    #13 - The Ramblin' Boy (2)

    S7:E4

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Lewis Season 1 Episode 3 - Expiation
    7.9/10(935 votes)

    #14 - 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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  15. Lewis Season 3 Episode 1 - Allegory of Love
    7.9/10(875 votes)

    #15 - 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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  16. Lewis Season 4 Episode 4 - Falling Darkness
    7.9/10(808 votes)

    #16 - Falling Darkness

    S4:E4

    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.

    Director:Nicholas Renton
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Lewis Season 5 Episode 1 - Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things
    7.9/10(770 votes)

    #17 - Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things

    S5:E1

    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.

    Director:Nicholas Renton
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Lewis Season 5 Episode 3 - The Mind Has Mountains
    7.9/10(738 votes)

    #18 - 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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  19. Lewis Season 8 Episode 3 - The Lions of Nemea (1)
    7.9/10(601 votes)

    #19 - The Lions of Nemea (1)

    S8:E3

    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. 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:Nicholas Laughland
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Lewis Season 1 Episode 1 - Whom the Gods Would Destroy
    7.8/10(1038 votes)

    #20 - Whom the Gods Would Destroy

    S1:E1

    Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate case involving one of the Oxford University's most prominent figures.

    Director:Marc Jobst
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Lewis Season 2 Episode 2 - Music to Die For
    7.8/10(845 votes)

    #21 - 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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  22. Lewis Season 2 Episode 3 - Life Born of Fire
    7.8/10(1006 votes)

    #22 - Life Born of Fire

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:Richard Spence
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Lewis Season 3 Episode 3 - The Point of Vanishing
    7.8/10(781 votes)

    #23 - The Point of Vanishing

    S3:E3

    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:Unknown

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  24. Lewis Season 4 Episode 3 - Your Sudden Death Question
    7.8/10(782 votes)

    #24 - Your Sudden Death Question

    S4:E3

    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

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  25. Lewis Season 7 Episode 3 - The Ramblin' Boy (1)
    7.8/10(649 votes)

    #25 - The Ramblin' Boy (1)

    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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Best Episodes Summary

"And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea" is the best rated episode of "Lewis". It scored 8.4/10 based on 1046 votes. Directed by Dan Reed and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/24/2008. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "What Lies Tangled (2)".