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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 Worst Episode
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    Lewis Season 4 Episode 3 - Your Sudden Death Question
    5.8/10(6 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Lewis Season 5 Episode 1 - Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things
    5.9/10(9 votes)

    #2 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Lewis Season 6 Episode 2 - Generation of Vipers
    6.0/10(7 votes)

    #3 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Lewis Season 3 Episode 3 - The Point of Vanishing
    6.1/10(7 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Lewis Season 4 Episode 4 - Falling Darkness
    6.1/10(7 votes)

    #5 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Lewis Season 6 Episode 4 - The Indelible Stain
    6.1/10(8 votes)

    #6 - The Indelible Stain

    S6:E4

    Lewis and Hathaway investigate when a controversial American academic is murdered after speaking at Oxford's Department of Criminology.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Lewis Season 8 Episode 3 - The Lions of Nemea (1)
    6.1/10(8 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Lewis Season 6 Episode 1 - The Soul of Genius
    6.2/10(8 votes)

    #8 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Lewis Season 4 Episode 1 - The Dead of Winter
    6.4/10(9 votes)

    #9 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Lewis Season 2 Episode 3 - Life Born of Fire
    6.6/10(8 votes)

    #10 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Lewis Season 1 Episode 1 - Whom the Gods Would Destroy
    6.7/10(14 votes)

    #11 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Lewis Season 5 Episode 2 - Wild Justice
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #12 - Wild Justice

    S5:E2

    Lewis investigates when a visiting female bishop is poisoned. Then two more deaths occur, both mirroring macabre murders from Jacobean revenge tragedy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Lewis Season 6 Episode 3 - Fearful Symmetry
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    #13 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Lewis Season 7 Episode 5 - Intelligent Design (1)
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    #14 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Lewis Season 5 Episode 3 - The Mind Has Mountains
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #15 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Lewis Season 2 Episode 1 - And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea
    7.7/10(9 votes)

    #16 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Lewis Season 9 Episode 3 - Magnum Opus (1)
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #17 - Magnum Opus (1)

    S9:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Lewis Season 8 Episode 1 - Entry Wounds (1)
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #18 - Entry Wounds (1)

    S8:E1

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Lewis Season 9 Episode 1 - One for Sorrow (1)
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #19 - One for Sorrow (1)

    S9:E1

    Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the apparent death by drug overdose of over achieving student and amateur taxidermist Talika Desai.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Lewis Season 1 Episode 3 - Expiation
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. Lewis Season 7 Episode 2 - Down Among the Fearful (2)
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #21 - Down Among the Fearful (2)

    S7:E2

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Lewis Season 1 Episode 2 - Old School Ties
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #22 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Lewis Season 2 Episode 2 - Music to Die For
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #23 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Lewis Season 3 Episode 1 - Allegory of Love
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #24 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Lewis Season 3 Episode 2 - The Quality of Mercy
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Your Sudden Death Question" is the worst rated episode of "Lewis". It scored 5.8/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by Dan Reed and written by Alan Plater, it aired on 5/16/2010. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things".