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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.
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:ITV1

Worst Episodes Summary

"Fearful Symmetry" is the worst rated episode of "Lewis". It scored 7.4/10 based on 640 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/30/2012. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Great and the Good".

  • Fearful Symmetry
    7.4/10640 votes
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    #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

  • The Great and the Good
    7.5/10681 votes
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    #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

  • Old School Ties
    7.6/10816 votes
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    #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

  • Counter Culture Blues
    7.6/10796 votes
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    #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

  • Dark Matter
    7.6/10677 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • Down Among the Fearful (1)
    7.6/10596 votes
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    #6 - 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

  • Magnum Opus (1)
    7.6/10465 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Magnum Opus (2)
    7.6/10429 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • Wild Justice
    7.7/10647 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • The Indelible Stain
    7.7/10600 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • Down Among the Fearful (2)
    7.7/10511 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • Entry Wounds (1)
    7.7/10547 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • Entry Wounds (2)
    7.7/10455 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Whom the Gods Would Destroy
    7.8/10923 votes
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    #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

  • Expiation
    7.8/10838 votes
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    #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

  • Music to Die For
    7.8/10765 votes
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    #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

  • Life Born of Fire
    7.8/10907 votes
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    #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

  • The Point of Vanishing
    7.8/10708 votes
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    #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

  • Your Sudden Death Question
    7.8/10707 votes
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    #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

  • Falling Darkness
    7.8/10730 votes
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    #20 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things
    7.8/10696 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • The Ramblin' Boy (1)
    7.8/10588 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • The Lions of Nemea (2)
    7.8/10453 votes
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    #23 - 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?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • One for Sorrow (1)
    7.8/10516 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • One for Sorrow (2)
    7.8/10453 votes
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    #25 - 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