Inspector Morse: The Absolute Conviction Set

Fans of this award-winning British detective series will be giddy. And those new to the cerebral inspector, memorably played by John Thaw, are in for a rare treat. Morse’s rumpled, seemingly distracted demeanor makes this Oxford-educated gumshoe an original.

Includes the episodes:
Absolute Conviction
Cherubim and Seraphim
Deadly Slumber
The Day of the Devil
Twilight of the Gods
The Way Through the Woods

Season 6, Episode 4: Absolute Conviction
Original Air Date: 8 April 1992
A convicted fraudster, one of three former business partners at an open prison, dies following an assault. Morse has to investigate the death while dealing with a brash subordinate and trying to avoid offending the prison authorities.

Season 6, Episode 5: Cherubim and Seraphim
Original Air Date: 15 April 1992
Personal tragedy strikes as Morse's stepniece, Marilyn Garrett, commits suicide. Morse was very fond of her and had hopes that she would accomplish many of the things he had not done in his life. While Morse is away on personal leave, Lewis is studying for his inspector's exams and is temporarily assigned to Chief Inspector Holroyd, a by-the-book type of officer. They investigate the death of a young man who had been walking in a tunnel and was struck and killed by a train. When Morse and Lewis are reteamed, they see similarities in the cases and look into the possibility of drug use at all-night dance parties in the area.

Season 7, Episode 1: Deadly Slumber
Original Air Date: 6 January 1993
Dr. Mathew Brewster's suicide takes a particular twist when the pathologist determines that he had also been bound and gagged. The Brewsters, both medical doctors, ran a private clinic and their son John, who lived at home, is doctoral candidate in philosophy. One possible suspect is Michael Steppings who threatened the Brewsters and their nurse after his daughter suffered severe side-effects and is now in a vegetative state from a botched operation two years previously. The forensics lab determines that one of Steppings's threatening letters was altered and Morse learns that Brewster may at one time been having an affair, so he must consider another possible motive for murder.

Season 7, Episode 2: The Day of the Devil
Original Air Date: 13 January 1993
When John Peter Barrie escapes from a maximum security mental institution, the police assign all available resources to finding him. Barrie is a dangerous sex offender known as the Devil's Disciple. Morse is assisted by Barrie's psychiatrist, Dr. Esther Martin. Barrie contacts Morse and they begin a deadly game of cat and mouse. When Morse refuses to play the game Barrie's way, the madman kidnaps a woman and demands that Dr. Martin be held for a future exchange. As the investigation proceeds, Morse believes Barrie has accomplices in the area but after a local cultist is killed, he realizes he has been looking in wrong direction all along.

Season 7, Episode 3: Twilight of the Gods
Original Air Date: 20 January 1993
Morse's police work and love of music come together as he investigates the murder of a journalist who was writing about college benefactor Andrew Baydon, and is witness when opera singer Gwladys Probert is shot while standing next to Baydon at the annual procession.

Season 8, Episode 1: The Way Through the Woods
Original Air Date: 29 November 1995
Steven Parnell, who was accused of murdering a number young girls the previous summer, is killed while in prison awaiting trial. Morse had not been involved in the case as he was on leave during most of that investigation. What piques Morse's interest is that one of the victims, Karen Anderson, was never found and it is assumed that her body was dumped in a nearby lake but Parnell confessed to his priest on his deathbed that he wasn't responsible for that particular murder. When one of the witnesses in the case, George Daly, is murdered, Morse and Lewis try to find some connection to Anderson's disappearance. They also wonder why Anderson's camera - she was an avid photographer - wasn't found. What they come across is a group of middle-aged men whose hobby is taking so-called glamour photos. The case takes an interesting twist when the body they do find in the woods isn't Anderson's, but a middle-aged male. Morse realizes that he got the whole thing wrong and the cause of the murder lies elsewhere.

BAFTA® Awards
1991, 1992 - Best Drama Series
1992, 2002 - John Thaw - Best Actor
Lew Grade Award for The Remorseful Day