9.0/101 votes#1 - Masonic Mysteries
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/1990
Morse finds himself at the top of the suspect list when his lady friend, Beryl Newsome, is stabbed at a dress rehearsal for the local amateur dramatic society's production of The Magic Flute. Then Lewis starts uncovering more incriminating evidence, and Morse becomes the target of direct attacks. Who is it that wants to get at Morse so badly?
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Julian Mitchell
8.0/102 votes#2 - The Ghost in the Machine
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/1989
Morse investigates the reported theft of erotic paintings belonging to Sir Julius Hanbury, a local baronet who is one of those standing for election as the new Master of Courtney College, Oxford. As well as the pictures, Sir Julius himself has also disappeared. Morse finds Sir Julius's dead body, and at first it looks like murder, but the new police pathologist, Dr Grayling Russell, believes he killed himself. Then there is another death which is undoubtedly a murder - but how is it connected with the late Sir Julius Hanbury?
Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: Julian Mitchell
7.3/103 votes#3 - Cherubim and Seraphim
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 4/15/1992
"Cherubim and Seraphim" is an episode of the British television detective mystery show Inspector Morse dramatized on ITV. It was first broadcast in 1992. Cherubim and Seraphim are both Biblical words and their origin is described in Christian angelic hierarchy.
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Julian Mitchell
7.0/102 votes#4 - The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1987
Someone at Oxford's Foreign Examination Syndicate is selling exam secrets. Nicholas Quinn, a member of the board, overhears something he shouldn't know about and is soon found dead at his cottage, poisoned with cyanide - but Nicholas was deaf. Then crossword compiler Philip Ogleby has his skull smashed in. During his investigations, Morse is attracted to Monica Height. She works for the Syndicate and may be mixed up in the corruption which led to Quinn's murder, and perhaps to Ogleby's as well.
Director: Brian Parker
Writer: Julian Mitchell
7.0/101 votes#5 - Promised Land
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 3/27/1991
The search for a retired 'supergrass' takes Morse and Lewis from Oxford to the Australian outback. Strangely, Lewis is less at home down under than Morse himself is.
Director: John Madden
Writer: Julian Mitchell
6.7/103 votes#6 - Service of All the Dead
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1987
Morse investigates murder on hallowed ground. A quiet country church is an unlikely setting for the killing, and a vicar and his voluntary helpers are the unlikely suspects. Among them is Ruth Rawlinson, whom Morse is attracted to. Then it appears that a serial killer is at work.
Director: Peter Hammond
Writer: Julian Mitchell
5.8/104 votes#7 - Twilight of the Gods
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1993
A nasty but very rich businessman and a world-famous opera singer are in Oxford to receive honorary degrees from the Chancellor of the University. However, the ceremony has to be abandoned when a sniper opens fire on the procession of dignitaries. The singer is seriously wounded, but was she the intended target?
Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: Julian Mitchell
3.0/102 votes#8 - Shadow in the Sun
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/3/1971
Elizabeth meets an interesting suitor, the Duke of Anjou, much to the Puritans' disapproval. Now Elizabeth must decide whether to follow her head or her heart.
Director: Richard Martin
Writer: Julian Mitchell
N/A/101 votes#9 - The Wolvercote Tongue
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 12/25/1987
Laura Poindexter, a rich American tourist, dies in the Randolph Hotel, Oxford, apparently from a heart attack, but Morse suspects foul play. Laura was due to return a historic jewel to an Oxford museum, and it has gone missing. Then Dr Kemp, who is a womanizing historian, dies of a fall, Lucy Downes is crushed to death in a telephone box, and Dr Kemp's widow appears to take a fatal overdose of Paracetomol.Morse believes the deaths are all linked.
Director: Alastair Reid
Writer: Julian Mitchell
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"Masonic Mysteries" is the best rated episode written by Julian Mitchell. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Danny Boyle. It aired on 1/24/1990 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Ghost in the Machine".