The Worst Episodes of Lewis
Every episode of Lewis ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Lewis!
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Lewis" is "Fearful Symmetry", rated 7.4/10 from 626 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Fearful Symmetry" aired on 5/30/2012 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Great and the Good".
7.4/10 626 votes#1 - Fearful Symmetry
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 5/30/2012
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 673 votes#2 - The Great and the Good
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/16/2008
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 800 votes#3 - Old School Ties
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/25/2007
Lewis comes face to face with his past in a case driven by celebrity, scheming, and dangerous sexual politics.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 785 votes#4 - Counter Culture Blues
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/12/2009
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 583 votes#5 - Down Among the Fearful (1)
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2013
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 452 votes#6 - Magnum Opus (1)
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2015
When College Dean Phil Beskin is found bludgeoned to death with a rock in local woodland, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 666 votes#7 - Dark Matter
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 5/9/2010
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 630 votes#8 - Wild Justice
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 4/11/2011
Lewis investigates when a visiting female bishop is poisoned. Then two more deaths occur, both mirroring macabre murders from Jacobean revenge tragedy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 584 votes#9 - The Indelible Stain
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 6/6/2012
Lewis and Hathaway investigate when a controversial American academic is murdered after speaking at Oxford's Department of Criminology.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 499 votes#10 - Down Among the Fearful (2)
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2013
Lewis and Hobson are examining the body of murdered Vicki Walmsley when a theft of etorphine is reported by the Garsington Equine Centre. The drug was last used a year earlier on a horse that injured its teenage rider, Joshua Grace – the brother-in-law of Reuben Beatty, the first murder victim.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 535 votes#11 - Entry Wounds (1)
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2014
Hathaway has been promoted to Inspector after an extended break from the force, and Lewis is enjoying retired life until he's asked to team up with his old colleague again.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 443 votes#12 - Entry Wounds (2)
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/2014
Hathaway's murder theory has fallen apart. It might take Lewis's insight to close the case - but will his former protege listen?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 414 votes#13 - Magnum Opus (2)
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/2015
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 906 votes#14 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 825 votes#15 - 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#16 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 899 votes#17 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 695 votes#18 - 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#19 - 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#20 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 575 votes#21 - The Ramblin' Boy (1)
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2013
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 505 votes#22 - One for Sorrow (1)
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2015
Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the apparent death by drug overdose of over achieving student and amateur taxidermist Talika Desai.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 440 votes#23 - One for Sorrow (2)
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2015
Lewis' team must delve into the worlds of social media, drugs, taxidermy, alternative art and the homeless East European community.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 779 votes#24 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 754 votes#25 - 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