Endeavour

Every time I watch Endeavour I catch my breath when I see Anton Lesser. In this series he looks so like my late father it is uncanny.

I am enjoying it (always good to see Anton Lesser on TV) but I do find that I cannot believe that the young Morse will ever grow up to be John Thaw. When I watch Young Montalbano I am always convinced that I am really watching younger versions of all the characters.

They were Happy Days!

Oh rose I knew the Covered Market very well! It had has? a brilliant 'Macfisheries' among other interesting shops. My grandfather bought a puppy in a pet shop there in 1933!! It was the last one in the window!!, and he saw it on his way to work and it was still there on his way home, so he bought it!!!!! Luckily my Granny liked dogs!! Cat wasn't too amused apparently!! Billie was still there when I was born and died aged 12, so it had clearly been his lucky day!!
I sometimes find Endeavour difficult to follow, but that could be because I keep going to sleep!!!! But I love the programme, as it reminds me so much of when I studied (well, sort of!!) lived and worked in Oxford in that era all those years ago.

(two or three episodes)

I loved the series, especially the last two or three (wasn't keen on the psychedelic one).

It's comfort viewing and I love Shaun Evans, although I can't help but keep noticing that his eyes are nowhere near as blue and piercing as John Thaw's were!

That's right niggly he became the 'boss' in the future ( matey)
Didn't know that Oxford was your city, I love living near it I must admit.Went round the covered Market last week ( over spending) as usual.
I thought the last couple of Endeavor episodes were really good.

I love it because it's Oxford, my home city. Having said that, the story lines are pretty poor, and difficult to follow! But the characters are great in a slightly boring way! and I love the rather portly Sergeant who calls Morse 'Matey'! He of course was there years later as the now decidedly overweight officer, still calling Morse (now the wonderful John Thaw with a much improved script!!) 'Matey'!!!

Cannot say that I enjoyed any of the story lines. There was little else on to watch so I persevered, mainly because I loved the original Morse with John Thaw.

I enjoyed this series too. Such good characters.

I just watched the last one and really enjoyed it, I have only seen about 4 episodes though. Sheila Hancock was in this one, as an old witch! It has grown on me.

Thanks Ana, it is not on just now so will just keep an eye out for more episodes, trouble is the different channels buy at different times so it all gets a bit confusing.
I do like the programme.

I struggled a bit with last night's episode but will continue to watch as I found it enjoyable in the main. It is a bit strange that the Thursdays are so wrapped up in their daughter's disappearance but never mention their son.

I didn't get into it so flipped over to something else

I enjoyed it,but the other half is really getting hard of hearing (although he IS NOT going deaf you understand) and had difficulty hearing what was going on - I just read the sub-titles, something the other half cannot do because of his poor eyesight - oh! he does suffer! Some of it was again in the dark, the latest trend, but on the whole it was all part of the story. No doubt the reason delayed posting of the papers will be revealed.

Thank you for clarifying that but it seems odd that no one had not mentioned it. How on earth do you get a bullet in your lungs and not notice. Did he not ever go to the doctors about the cough ? It's a just a story NellieM.

I loved it too. I bought DH the entire collection of Inspector Morse as he didn't see them back in the 1980s, but we also love this and Lewis too. It's great to see such good acting, such good stories and above all such stunning photography, Oxford shown at its beautiful best.

BTW, Nelliemoser, Inspector Thursday, whilst coughing up his lungs, managed to cough up the bullet that was lodged there that they couldn't operate on, which is why he is now rather chipper!

Well I loved it. So good to be back in Oxford.

Women's expectations weren't that high in the 60s, as shown by Mrs Thursday getting herself a 'little cleaning job'.

I must admit I didn't like Thursday being so abrasive with Morse. I suspect things will get back to normal with the next episode.

Nellie Thursday was shot in the last series,and the bullet entered his lungs.Finally, he coughed it up ( last series) now he is well on the mend.

feice, the series that's just begun here is series 4, so I think you're either at the end of series 2 or the beginning of series 3!

I thought I had posted on here yesterday! My tablet keps losing things. I like the program but what happened to Inspector Thursday (Roger Allam)?
At the end of the last series he seemed to be coughing up his lungs with ?Lung cancer and now he is back working.

I really like the character and the actor but such a sudden change to a story line has annoyed me.
I know it's just a story but why suddenly change the story line. This makes this piece of drama seem even less likely to be true, despite knowing it is all fiction IYSWM.

My husband likes Endeavour for the old cars and the period feel, I don't enjoy the stories don't engage me as say Unforgotten does, where the momentum builds. these whole episodes are too long, too pedestrian, maybe Morse should be left as it was so we just remember the excellent John Thaw, that's not to say the young actor who plays him isn't good.

I have to catch this on one of the Dutch/Flemish channels and the last one I saw Morse was sitting in a Jail cell. have I missed a lot?

I like it ,its not as good as Morse but you can tell its from the same stable ,its quite a gentle programme that draws you in even though its about murder.Its not like the Douglas Henshall/Martin Compson detective story that was on last month ,cant remember what it was called but it kept me glued for the hour every week and it was the fastest hour in the week .I am old enough(just) to remember the Peter Manuel case so maybe that was a factor

Thanks roses!