The Best Episodes Written By Russell Lewis
Every TV Episode Written by Russell Lewis Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Russell Lewis Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Russell Lewis is "The Tip-Off", rated 9.5/10 from 2 user votes. It was "directed by Peter Hoar". "The Tip-Off" aired on 10/28/2008 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Exeunt".
9.5/10 2 votes#1 - The Tip-Off
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/28/2008
With Lucas back within MI5 he reveals that the Russians interrogated him about Operation Sugar Horse, the most secret ongoing spy operation MI5 ever had. If the Russians know about it, then MI5 has a very high level mole. Harry seeks out his mentor, The Spycatcher, to help him find the mole. Ben is undercover with an Al-Qaeda cell; they are planning to bomb London and what looks like a dry run unexpectedly turns live.
Director: Peter Hoar
Writer: Russell Lewis
9.5/10 2 votes#2 - Exeunt
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 3/12/2023
A series of death notices in the Oxford Mail, each with a cryptic message, provides clues to Endeavour’s final investigation, while Thursday’s past catches up with him.
Director: Kate Saxon
Writer: Russell Lewis
9.0/10 1 votes#3 - Uniform
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 3/5/2023
Endeavour suspects a connection between a woman's disappearance and her past employer but another missing persons case demands his attention. This time, it's a notable artist, whose work adorns the covers of a series of paperback mysteries.
Director: Nirpal Bhogal
Writer: Russell Lewis
8.7/10 6 votes#4 - Oracle
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/2020
Whilst Endeavour sees in 1970 at a Venetian opera, a grisly murder on an Oxford towpath speaks to Thursday's intuition. Back in Oxford, Endeavour meets a kindred spirit.
Director: Shaun Evans
Writer: Russell Lewis
8.5/10 6 votes#5 - Zenana
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/2020
Endeavour uncovers a potential link between a series of peculiar accidents leading him to an all-women Oxford college determined to eschew co-education.
Director: Kate Saxon
Writer: Russell Lewis
8.3/10 7 votes#6 - Fugue
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/21/2013
There is a new kind of killer haunting the Oxford twilight. Endeavour and Thursday find the city's dreaming spires giving way to waking nightmare.
Director: Tom Vaughan
Writer: Russell Lewis
8.3/10 6 votes#7 - Raga
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/2020
It's the lead up to 1970's general election and as racial tensions escalate in Oxford, tragedy strikes in an Indian restaurant, testing family loyalties.
Director: Zam Salim
Writer: Russell Lewis
8.1/10 10 votes#8 - Girl
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/14/2013
The sudden death of a secretarial student and the shooting of a doctor appear unconnected despite Morse's theories. Chief Superintendent Bright, the new commanding officer of the Oxford City Police, unimpressed with Morse's zeal, protests to Thursday that the bagman's position is a Detective Sergeant's job and the young constable is too inexperienced. Following the shooting of a vicar, Morse is reduced to general duties for dismissing a beautiful, but mentally unstable girl as a suspect and must continue his investigations alone despite warnings of possible dismissal from his superiors.
Director: Edward Bazalgette
Writer: Russell Lewis
7.8/10 4 votes#9 - Dead Tomorrow
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/22/2022
When a body is dredged up from the seabed of the English Channel, it sets in motion a truly disturbing investigation which forces Grace to ask himself just how far anyone might go to save the ones they love.
Director: Kate Saxon
Writer: Russell Lewis
7.7/10 9 votes#10 - Icarus
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 3/11/2018
After the mysterious disappearance of a teacher, Endeavour finds himself investigating the dark and secret world of a public school.
Director: Gordon Anderson
Writer: Russell Lewis
7.7/10 7 votes#11 - Dead Simple
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/14/2021
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is approached by colleague Detective Sergeant Branson to help investigate the disappearance of a Brighton property developer.
Director: John Alexander
Writer: Russell Lewis
7.5/10 2 votes#12 - Striker
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/2021
Opening the series in 1971, a death threat to Oxford Wanderers’ star striker Jack Swift places Endeavour and his team at the heart of the glitz and glamour of 1970s football, exposing the true cost of success and celebrity, and with it, a deep-rooted division that is soon reflected much closer to home.
Director: Shaun Evans
Writer: Russell Lewis
7.3/10 2 votes#13 - Prelude
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 2/26/2023
Endeavour's return to duty at Castle Gate with a newfound sobriety coincides with a gruesome discovery in a college garden linked to an Oxford orchestra.
Director: Shaun Evans
Writer: Russell Lewis
6.4/10 5 votes#14 - Not Dead Enough
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 5/1/2022
Months on from his last investigation, and with Grace's team still reeling from the fallout, Roy must prove that a wealthy Brighton businessman has brutally murdered his wife.
Director: Henrik Georgsson
Writer: Russell Lewis
6.3/10 3 votes#15 - Sharpe's Challenge (2)
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 4/24/2006
India, 1817 The adventures of Sharpe and Harper in India continue with the rescue of Miss Celia Burroughs from a dangerous Indian prince. Meanwhile, Sharpe has old scores to be settled with the bully Simmerson.
Director: N/A
Writer: Russell Lewis
6.0/10 1 votes#16 - Sharpe's Battle
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/19/1995
Sept 1813 - While in the Spanish hills, Sharpe and his men come across a scene of devastation in the town of Casa Antiga. The town has been sacked by the fearsome French commander, Brigadier General Guy Loup and his Wolf brigade. Perkins rescues a young woman from two of Loup's soldiers and they are arrested. When Loup rides into town demanding they be released, Sharpe refuses and has them executed in front of him. Loup vows revenge.Back at camp, Wellington gives Sharpe command of the Royal Irish Company and orders him to knock them into shape. The Irish descendants are inexperienced and unused to the harsh realities of war and it is not long before they consider mutiny. Sharpe tells them they have three choices: be slaughtered by the French, get shot for deserting or stay and learn how to be soldiers. Sharpe's gallantry and battle-hardened experience wins the company over and they soon begin to respect him.However Sharpe faces treachery from the Spanish partisan fighter, Dona Juanita de
Director: N/A
Writer: Russell Lewis
6.0/10 1 votes#17 - Sharpe's Challenge (1)
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 4/23/2006
India, 1817 Two years after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington sends Sharpe to India to check out an Indian prince who appears to threaten British interests. The mission becomes dangerous when a general's daughter is kidnapped and Sharpe must find her.
Director: N/A
Writer: Russell Lewis
6.0/10 1 votes#18 - Sharpe's Peril (1)
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/2008
It's India, 1818 and Lt Col Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are travelling across India, escorting the beautiful Marie-Angelique Bonnet to meet her fiancée. While in bandit-plagued badlands, they come across the very dregs of the Crown's troops; an ill disciplined, rag-tag unit led by boy soldier Beauclare. As Sharpe and company sit down to have dinner with their hosts, the camp comes under attack by the notorious bandit Chitu. As the dust settles, it becomes apparent there have been many casualties and Sharpe realises that he is the only person now capable of getting this wagon train to the safety of the next army garrison. Little does Sharpe know that the adventure has only just begun and that he has inadvertently stumbled across a massive opium trafficking ring...
Director: N/A
Writer: Russell Lewis
6.0/10 3 votes#19 - Sharpe's Peril (2)
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 11/9/2008
It's India, 1818 and Lt Col Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are travelling across India, escorting the beautiful Marie-Angelique Bonnet to meet her fiancée. While in bandit-plagued badlands, they come across the very dregs of the Crown's troops; an ill disciplined, rag-tag unit led by boy soldier Beauclare. As Sharpe and company sit down to have dinner with their hosts, the camp comes under attack by the notorious bandit Chitu. As the dust settles, it becomes apparent there have been many casualties and Sharpe realises that he is the only person now capable of getting this wagon train to the safety of the next army garrison. Little does Sharpe know that the adventure has only just begun and that he has inadvertently stumbled across a massive opium trafficking ring...
Director: N/A
Writer: Russell Lewis
6.0/10 5 votes#20 - Dead Man’s Footsteps
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 5/8/2022
A sinister inquiry into skeletal remains found in a forgotten Brighton storm drain takes Grace down a labyrinthine trail through the past.
Director: Brian Kelly
Writer: Russell Lewis
4.0/10 2 votes#21 - Looking Good Dead
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/24/2022
Grace senses a connection between a single death and the discovery of human remains in a field. But his superior is not convinced.
Director: John Alexander
Writer: Russell Lewis