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Lewis

2007 Ended 90m episodes

7.6/10 127 votes

CrimeDramaMystery

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Created by:: Colin Dexter
Cast:: Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Clare Holman, Rebecca Front
Language:: English
Country:: United Kingdom
Network:: ITV1

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Seasons

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Season 5

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E01

Episode 1

★ 6.3

Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things

2011-04-03 · 93m

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.

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E02

Episode 2

★ 7.8

Wild Justice

2011-04-11 · 94m

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

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E03

Episode 3

★ 8.0

The Mind Has Mountains

2011-04-17 · 93m

The ethics of a questionable drug on the Oxford campus of anti-depressants calls into account the questionable judgment of a psychiatry professor.

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E04

Episode 4

★ 8.5

The Gift of Promise

2011-04-24 · 94m

When a local businesswoman is bludgeoned to death, it appears to be a blackmail plot gone wrong. As the body count rises, Lewis and Hathaway realize there is a decades-old secret at the heart of the case, which they must uncover to bring the present-day murders to a halt.

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