The writer of the Inspector Morse detective novels admired actor John Thaw's performance as the curmudgeonly detective so much he has written a clause into his will banning other actors from playing ...

If three of TV’s smartest mystery series — “Sherlock,” “Elementary” and “Inspector Morse” — were squished into one show, you’d likely get too much of a good thing. In the hands of the Hollywood school ...

'Endeavour' is a spinoff of the British mystery series 'Inspector Morse,' but series star Shaun Evans says he's never seen an episode of the original show. Thaw’s Morse was a beloved character on ...

The scraps of paper on which the very first Inspector Morse novel was penned are tipped to sell for £50,000. Crime author Colin Dexter wrote the opening paragraphs to his inaugural book featuring the ...

After the equivalent of 32 feature-length movies broadcast over 13 seasons, the popular British-made “Inspector Morse” detective series is coming to an end Thursday night (9 p.m. on WTTW-Ch. 11). The ...

The author said he created the much-loved character during a rainy family holiday in North Wales Inspector Morse creator Colin Dexter has died peacefully at his home in Oxford, aged 86. The crime ...

The British mystery series “Inspector Morse” (1987-2000) proved such a popular mainstay that a prequel called “Endeavour on Masterpiece” (after Morse’s rarely mentioned Christian name) was created in ...

Whether with an old-fashioned one-case-per-episode or a more sprawling multistrand story, quaint or violent, historic or modern, the birthplace of Agatha Christie understands that we all need stories ...

The late, great Inspector Morse – so famously embodied by John Thaw on the TV all those years ago – hits the stage for the very first time in a brand-new mystery from one of the original writers.

Shaun Evans (left) who will step in to John Thaw's shoes to play the younger version of Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse Credit: Photo: ITV/PA The death of the fictional detective appeared to rule out ...