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    Radio might be the most intimate medium but TV is the most sociable; a convivial presence in every living room we’ve ever known, ready with gossip, information, comfort or distraction. In The Friend in the Corner we return to significant TV shows to find out what they did for us, and how they pulled it off.

    Adapted from Colin Dexter’s novels, Inspector Morse was first shown in on ITV and ran, off and on, until National treasure John Thaw plays Chief Inspector Morse, a dyspeptic high-functioning alcoholic bachelor whose grumpiness disguises a passionate bromance with his junior, Sergeant Lewis, played by Kevin Whately. Together they stomp around Oxford trying to work out how it can be possible that the Classics Fellow from Madeup College has been stabbed with a ceremonial dagger stolen from the Ashmolean, again.

    The Oxford setting of Inspector Morse - and this is university Oxford, not the Cowley Road Mini plant Oxford - is important: this is a show that places

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    Inspector Morse (TV series)

    British television detective series (–)

    Inspector Morse is a British detective drama television series based on a series of novels bygd Colin Dexter. It starred John Thaw as Detective Chief Inspector Morse, and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. The series comprises 33 two-hour episodes ( minutes excluding commercials) produced between 6 January and 15 November Dexter made uncredited cameo appearances in all but three of the episodes.

    In , the series was named the greatest British brott drama of all time by Radio Times readers.[1] In , the series was ranked 42 on the Greatest British Television Programmes compiled by the British bio Institute.

    It was followed by the spin-off Lewis, and the prequel Endeavour.

    Overview

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    The series was made by Zenith Productions for Central Independent Television, and first shown in the UK on the ITV network of regional broadcasters. Between and the commissioning company was Carlton Televis

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    Inspector Morse: A Literary Companion

    ‘A magisterial, beautifully presented, splendidly researched companion to the life of the late Chief Inspector’ – Colin Dexter.

    Paul Taylor has provided the most detailed account of the habits, opinions, loves and hates of Inspector Morse from all the available written sources. While fictional television programmes may be marvellously produced, directed, scripted, and acted they must remain forever fictional and have no part in this book which is based on the real Morse, the real Lewis and Strange, the very real Oxford, and a large number of crimes (particularly murder).

    No details, however, are provided of the solutions to those crimes. Among the many interesting discoveries made by Taylor are the true Christian name of Lewis, a sample of Morse’s handwriting, the exact location of Lonsdale College in Oxford, the dates of all the cases investigated, and an exact timetable of the events leading to the demise of the Chief Inspector.

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