Lewis (2006) (TV)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

Bill Anderson

Writers:

Colin Dexter (characters)
Russell Lewis (story)

Release Date:

29 January 2006 (UK)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

DI Lewis returns to Oxford after several years absence and is reluctantly assigned by his new boss, DCS Innocent...

Plot Keywords:

Oxford | Murder | Math Problem | Car Accident | Jealousy

Cast

Kevin Whately	...	DI Robert Lewis
Laurence Fox	...	DS James Hathaway
Clare Holman	...	Dr. Laura Hobson
Rebecca Front	...	Chief Supt. Jean Innocent
Charlie Cox	...	Danny Griffon
Jack Ellis	...	Rex Griffon
Michael Maloney	...	Ivor Denniston
Lizzy McInnerny	...	Kate Jekyll
Danny Webb	...	Tom Pollock
Jemma Redgrave	...	Trudi Griffon
Marc Elliott	...	Hal Bose (as Marc Elliot)
Michael Hobbs	...	Club Secretary
Alex Knight	...	DI Knox
Dennis Matsuki	...	Mr. Tanigaki
Janet Maw	...	Secretary

Also Known As:

Inspector Lewis (UK) (working title) (USA)

Runtime:

120 min | USA:94 min

Country:

USA | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo | Dolby

Filming Locations:

Ambleside Walk, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, UK

Company:

Granada Television

Trivia:

When Jessica Pollock is playing the trumpet, the music scholarship is funded by the Endeavour Award provided by an anonymous bequest. The secretary tells Lewis that the only stipulation the benefactor made was that the winner must "give solace to the soul with their playing". It is obvious that the benefactor was none other than Morse.

Quotes:

[Dr Hobson sees Lewis wearing a very garish Caribbean shirt]
Dr. Laura Hobson: Can you turn down the volume on that shirt?

Movie Connections:

Featured in Lewis... Behind the Scenes (2007) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major

Lewis -- Fine Legacy of Insector Morse

Simple message and short .... WE NEED MORE INSPECTOR LEWIS.

It's totally in the Morse tradition and rocks.

Can we lobby for this to become reality??? I was expecting some sad spin off, but found the plot to be totally compelling in the best tradition of Morse. The 'hollowed out' character of Lewis, trying to come to terms with his life and the tragedy of his family, set against the 'moving on' of the police world that he knew in Oxford, made compelling viewing.

Morse, reaching out from the dead to help Lewis solve the case in this pilot can really be only carried off the one time, but it made for a great introduction to the independent character of Lewis, who has to make sense of Morse's cryptic accidental clues.

The TV critics in the press the following day obviously didn't give a damn, but I feel that there could be a very good series here.