Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
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- Seasons
- 9
- Episodes aired
- 41
- Latest aired
- S09E06
- Total runtime
- 2d 1h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 February 2007 – March 2007 3 episodes
- Season 2 February 2008 – March 2008 4 episodes
- Season 3 March 2009 – April 2009 4 episodes
- Season 4 May 2010 4 episodes
- Season 5 April 2011 4 episodes
- Season 6 May 2012 – June 2012 4 episodes
- Season 7 January 2013 – February 2013 6 episodes
- the show was away for 1 year and 8 months
- Season 8 October 2014 – November 2014 6 episodes
- Season 9 October 2015 – November 2015 6 episodes
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S05E01 Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things
April 3 · 93min find the promo
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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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S05E02 Wild Justice
April 11 · 94min find the promo
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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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S05E03 The Mind Has Mountains
April 17 · 93min find the promo
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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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S05E04 The Gift of Promise
April 24 · 94min find the promo
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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.