Lewis
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Seasons
1. Allegory of Love
Air Date: 2009-03-22
Lewis investigates the murder of a beautiful young Eastern European woman whose death comes straight from the pages of a popular fantasy novel.
2. The Quality of Mercy
Air Date: 2009-03-29
When Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the murder of a rising Oxford theatre star, they focus their suspicions on his acting colleagues.
3. The Point of Vanishing
Air Date: 2009-04-05
When religious fanatic Steven Mullan is murdered, Lewis investigates celebrity atheist Tom Rattenbury and his family, who had been attacked by Mullan.
4. Counter Culture Blues
Air Date: 2009-04-12
When Lewis and Hathaway investigate a murder in town, forensic evidence leads them to suspect there is a connection with the reforming of an old rock band.
1. The Dead of Winter
Air Date: 2010-05-02
After a body is found on an Oxford tour bus, Lewis and Hathaway are led to Crevecoeur Hall, a sprawling Oxford estate where Hathaway spent much of his childhood.
2. Dark Matter
Air Date: 2010-05-09
When the master of a college is found dead at the foot of the observatory stairs, suspicion falls on all of the staff - from senior tutors right down to the scouts.
3. Your Sudden Death Question
Air Date: 2010-05-16
On a bank holiday weekend Lewis and Hathaway are called in when a top quiz competitor is found floating dead in the fountain of an Oxford college.
4. Falling Darkness
Air Date: 2010-05-30
Lewis and Hathaway investigate the murder of a university friend of pathologist Laura Hobson. As more deaths occur, they realise that Laura's past may hold the key.
1. Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things
Air Date: 2011-04-03
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.
2. Wild Justice
Air Date: 2011-04-11
Lewis investigates when a visiting female bishop is poisoned. Then two more deaths occur, both mirroring macabre murders from Jacobean revenge tragedy.
3. The Mind Has Mountains
Air Date: 2011-04-17
The ethics of a questionable drug on the Oxford campus of anti-depressants calls into account the questionable judgment of a psychiatry professor.
4. The Gift of Promise
Air Date: 2011-04-24
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.
1. Entry Wounds (1)
Air Date: 2014-10-10
Hathaway has been promoted to Inspector after an extended break from the force, and Lewis is enjoying retired life until he's asked to team up with his old colleague again.
2. Entry Wounds (2)
Air Date: 2014-10-17
Hathaway's murder theory has fallen apart. It might take Lewis's insight to close the case - but will his former protege listen?
3. The Lions of Nemea (1)
Air Date: 2014-10-24
When a classics scholar is stabbed to death and dumped in the Oxford Canal, Lewis, Hathaway and Maddox find themselves sorely tested by a bizarre case.
4. The Lions of Nemea (2)
Air Date: 2014-10-31
After a difficult start, Lewis and Hathaway's partnership seems to have gained some semblance of normality. DS Maddox has become a part of the team. Her abilities will be put to the test when an investigation begins on the brutal murder of an American classics student Rose Anderson Her body is hauled from the canal with a stand wound to the neck and abdomen. Suspicious soon fall on astrophysics professor, Felix Garwood who had recently broken off an affair with Rose. However, Felix was married to Rose's supervisor, Philippa Garwood. Could the jealous wife have committed such a murder?
5. Beyond Good and Evil (1)
Air Date: 2014-11-07
Lewis' reputation is jeopardized when the very first case that he solved as a DI is reopened for appeal and new murders are committed with the original weapon.
6. Beyond Good and Evil (2)
Air Date: 2014-11-14
Hathaway and Maddox continue to investigate the murder of Travis as the trail leads back to Lewis’s original case. The two detectives attempt to prevent another murder and Lewis sees himself isolated and alone with his reputation in jeopardy.
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Rating
7.6/10
Release Date
2007-02-18
Episodes
41 (9 seasons)
Status
Ended
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Production Companies
ITV Productions
ITV Studios