一名15岁的女学生被谋杀，而其男友自杀身亡，引起了牛津警方的注意。由此牵出的调查则指向一个为政客、商人、牛津大学教师和警察所提供的未成年少女淫乱派对，令调查工作举步维艰。摩斯探员的上级Fred Thursday警督对摩斯的才华大加赞赏，决定带他一同破案。在摩斯和Thursday警督的努力下，案件被成功侦破。

一个学文秘的女学生非正常死亡，一位医生遭到枪杀，两者看似毫无联系，但摩斯探员则断定其中必有关联。牛津市警新到任的Bright局长却对摩斯的破案热情不以为然，认为摩斯毫无经验却越俎代庖，并向摩斯的上级Thursday警督抗议。随着教区牧师被射杀身亡，而摩斯放走一位嫌疑犯，他被迫降级去处理一般警务。尽管再三遭到上级警告，摩斯依然继续他的调查直到案件侦破为止。

一位已婚女士惨遭扼杀，另一位植物学家因茶中下了剧毒而亡。受到歌剧的启发，摩斯发现了这两起案件中的联系。为此，Thursday警督允许摩斯回归原职参与调查。摩斯最终利用自己的歌剧知识寻获了罪犯。

军工厂的新型导弹揭幕，并预定邀请皇室成员参观。但在参观时，一位装配工在工厂内被杀。Thursday警督和Jakes警长组织调查，摩斯则重新负责询问。因为涉及皇室成员和国际关系，Bright局长担忧自己的官位不保，但案件最终水落石出。

仍在普通警员岗位的摩斯参加了警长考试，同时调查了一起交通肇事逃逸案。案中，一位牛津大学的希腊学教授被撞身亡。经调查，摩斯发现这位教授因为一块学院用地的处置问题与同事龃龉。案中还夹杂了一伙来自伦敦东区的黑帮，而这些人曾是Thursday警督的老对头。由此引发的私人恩怨令Thursday认为黑帮参与了这起案子。虽然黑帮并没有参与谋杀教授，但案件最终被侦破。最后，摩斯回到了林肯郡探望其垂死的父亲。

A baffling suicide, an anguished father searching for his missing daughter and the robbery of medieval treasures strain the talents of DC Endeavour Morse.

A murder investigation sends Endeavour and DI Thursday to a girls' school which is haunted by memories of an atrocity committed a hundred years earlier.

As a multiple murderer haunts the city strangling married women with a silk stocking, Endeavour and DI Thursday's emotional lives are turned upside down.

As 1966 draws to a close, the body of a disreputable journalist found in mysterious circumstances threatens to expose past horrors. As the investigation deepens, Endeavour and Thursday face corruption in Oxford's corridors of power.

A vanishing bus conductress and a raucous funfair draw DC Endeavour Morse back to duty.

The shock death of an artist in a house fire leaves Oxford city police baffled.

A seemingly routine missing persons case takes on a troubling dimension.

Morse is recruited by an old college mentor to look into the safety of his estranged wife.

As Endeavour and Thursday deal with the heartbreak of Joan's departure, a death at East Cowley Slipper Baths hurls Oxford's Finest into their darkest adventure.

The so called ‘permissive society’ comes under the spotlight as Endeavour is tasked with protecting conservative social activist, Joy Pettybon, after she receives a death threat while visiting Oxford to promote her ‘Keep Britain Decent’ campaign.

Whispers that Cowley General contains a cursed ward - and a seemingly innocuous death - set off a chain of events that lead Endeavour to investigate.

When a body is found in Bramford Mere, a marshland outside of Oxford, everyone assumes they are the remains of Dr Matthew Laxman, an Oxford botanist who mysteriously disappeared near the site five years earlier.

The newly promoted Detective Sergeant Morse investigates when a famous international thief tries to steal a Faberge egg from an auction. The case leads to the gruesome murders of an academic and a gangster, and Morse is convinced the deaths are the work of the same man. As he struggles with his new responsibilities, he finds himself forced to mentor a younger partner.

Hollywood glamour comes to Oxford as the stars of a new horror movie sequel begin filming in the city. Meanwhile, the unexplained poisoning of a former detective sergeant leads Endeavour and Thursday to a local cinema, which is playing host the film's stars in a special event.

The railway takes centre stage as Endeavour investigates the disappearance of a local woman - with initial fears linking it to the unsolved murder of a teenager, killed several years earlier.

A photo-shoot on an army base turns sinister when one of the models is found dead. But the investigation is complicated when Sam Thursday is revealed to be involved.

An assassination attempt at an international sporting event opens a new case for Endeavour and Thursday, but their investigation is quickly brought to an unexpected end.

After the mysterious disappearance of a teacher, Endeavour finds himself investigating the dark and secret world of a public school.

With the Cowley team scattered across Oxfordshire, Endeavour finds himself policing a lonely country patch, and back in uniform. His day job is a monotonous investigation of missing livestock and stolen tractors. But when he discovers the dead body of a missing schoolgirl, it opens this quiet backwater to the roar of Castle Gate CID – now staffed by Thursday and an old adversary, the newly promoted DCI Ronnie Box, alongside sidekick DS Alan Jago.

As the highly-anticipated moon landings of Apollo 11 draw near, Endeavour finds himself investigating the death of a promising young astrophysicist and his girlfriend. Their deaths seeming to be a result of a tragic car accident on first inspection, with the clues pointing to foul play, Endeavour enlists the help of an injured Thursday to uncover the truth.

The murder of a chocolate factory owner during a local hunt leads Endeavour to the sleepy village of Chigton Green. When he learns of a vicious campaign of gossip and rumour, it seems likely that two murders are connected. One of the targets, a beautiful, single mother, captures Endeavour's attention, giving him food for thought about the future.

When a librarian is gruesomely murdered at the Bodleian, Endeavour and Thursday have little to go on besides a set of muddy boot prints. With the two main suspects having their own motives for killing the librarian, Endeavour digs deeper into their backgrounds, tracking a trail that appears to connect to seemingly innocent college bequest.

Whilst Endeavour sees in 1970 at a Venetian opera, a grisly murder on an Oxford towpath speaks to Thursday's intuition. Back in Oxford, Endeavour meets a kindred spirit.

It's the lead up to 1970's general election and as racial tensions escalate in Oxford, tragedy strikes in an Indian restaurant, testing family loyalties.

Endeavour uncovers a potential link between a series of peculiar accidents leading him to an all-women Oxford college determined to eschew co-education.

We first met Endeavour Morse in "Inspector Morse", and the story continued in "Inspector Lewis". With "Endeavour", the prequel to these landmark mysteries, we begin to understand the depth and eccentricities of the cerebral and solitary Detective Constable Morse.

"Endeavour: The Evolution" goes behind the scenes to explore the ever-changing world of Morse and Thursday with interviews with the cast and creators of "Endeavour" as they share what makes this program so full of mystery, intrigue, and nail-biting suspense.

Opening the series in 1971, a death threat to Oxford Wanderers’ star striker Jack Swift places Endeavour and his team at the heart of the glitz and glamour of 1970s football, exposing the true cost of success and celebrity, and with it, a deep-rooted division that is soon reflected much closer to home.

Morse and the team are called to investigate the murder of a taxi driver found dead in his cab on the outskirts of Oxford, and worry that a recent string of assaults on cab drivers has escalated to murder. As the inquiry unfolds, the detective finds the case hits too close to home and starts to retreat from those close to him.

It is the winter of 1971 and the team is split up by a snowstorm while investigating the murder of a college don, and Endeavour is stranded at an abandoned hotel where he becomes the subject of a revenge plot.

Endeavour's return to duty at Castle Gate with a newfound sobriety coincides with a gruesome discovery in a college garden linked to an Oxford orchestra.

Endeavour suspects a connection between a woman's disappearance and her past employer but another missing persons case demands his attention. This time, it's a notable artist, whose work adorns the covers of a series of paperback mysteries.

From the original Inspector Morse (1987-2000), through to the spin off ‘Lewis' in (2006-2015) and after ten years, the series ‘Endeavour', which explores the detective's back story in 1960s Britain, the story of Inspector Morse is finally coming to an end. Featuring interviews with all the main cast members, the documentary explores the huge global appeal of this Oxford universe of crime. We go behind the scenes during the filming of the last series of ‘Endeavour' as they tie together over six decades of interconnecting plots.

A series of death notices in the Oxford Mail, each with a cryptic message, provides clues to Endeavour’s final investigation, while Thursday’s past catches up with him.