Colin Dexter (1930–2017) was an award-winning British crime fiction author who had a long and bountiful career. Among Dexter’s many writing accomplishments, his “Inspector Morse” crime series is perhaps the most notable and spawned a TV series (1987–2000) of the same name featuring the late, great actor John Thaw as the titular character.
From the outset of the series’ beginnings in the late 1980s, it becomes evident that there’s a lot more under its hood than any other TV-crime dramas. Drawing from the rich cinematic sensibilities of the British, the characters are incredibly fleshed out and realistic.
Thaw’s Morse is a complex, sometimes contradictory character who works for the Criminal Investigation Department of the Oxford Police as a Chief Inspector. Although he exhibits an appreciation of the more cultured things in life, such as classical music and fine wines, he also loves fast cars and clever women, sometimes even hitting on a lady involved in the case he’s handling. Morse tooling around in his red Jaguar lights up the screen.
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