Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate case involving one of the Oxford University's most prominent figures.

Episode 1

Lewis comes face to face with his past in a case driven by celebrity, scheming, and dangerous sexual politics.

Episode 2

When an Oxford housewife is found hanged in her home, Lewis and Hathaway unearth a far darker murder case than the initial suicide verdict suggests.

Episode 3

Kevin Whately

Laurence Fox

Clare Holman

Rebecca Front

Alex Macqueen

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

United Kingdom

Colin Dexter

Lewis

Gaumont

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Set between 2002 and 2012, the drama deftly interweaves two real life stories, the uncovering of phone hacking at the News of the World, and running parallel, the investigation into the unsolved murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan.

The Hack

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England, 1925. At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong. It will be up to the unlikeliest of sleuths—the fizzingly inquisitive Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent—to unravel a chilling plot that will change her life, cracking wide open the country house mystery.

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials

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Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill's uncanny ability to see into the minds of murderers means he finds it difficult to distance himself from disturbing cases.

Wire in the Blood

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As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

Foyle's War

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A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.

Vera

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From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Agatha Christie's Poirot

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Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.

Sherlock Holmes

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In 1953 at the hamlet of Grantchester, Sidney Chambers—a charismatic, charming clergyman—turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances.

Grantchester

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The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Midsomer Murders

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Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.

Prime Suspect

The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.

Victoria

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Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, advises the police. British version of the Belgian crime drama of the same name.

Professor T

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Season 1

When a man is found dead at the Bodleian Library, Lewis investigates a link between the death and an intruder on a local professor's property.

Lewis and Hathaway investigate a link between the murder of a professor of German history and the recent winner of a local underground boxing bout.

When an old friend of Hathaway's commits suicide, Lewis investigates a link between his death and a religious group whose members are being targeted by a killer.

A rape case appears to be solved when the chief suspect is murdered. But nothing is what it seems - and soon the upper echelons of Oxford society close ranks.

Episode 4

Season 2

Lewis investigates the murder of a beautiful young Eastern European woman whose death comes straight from the pages of a popular fantasy novel.

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.

When religious fanatic Steven Mullan is murdered, Lewis investigates celebrity atheist Tom Rattenbury and his family, who had been attacked by Mullan.

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.

Season 3

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.

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.

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.

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.

Season 4

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.

Lewis investigates when a visiting female bishop is poisoned. Then two more deaths occur, both mirroring macabre murders from Jacobean revenge tragedy.

The ethics of a questionable drug on the Oxford campus of anti-depressants calls into account the questionable judgment of a psychiatry professor.

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.

Season 5

When a botanist accidentally digs up the body of the recently buried Murray Hawes, Lewis and Hathaway are set upon a seemingly impossible quest.

Lewis and Hathaway are drawn into a world of virtual bullying, but very real murder, when a professor is found dead after her dating video is leaked online.

When a babysitter is found dead, Lewis and Hathaway are drawn into diverse new worlds including squats, swinging suburbia, primate labs and fetish photography.

Lewis and Hathaway investigate when a controversial American academic is murdered after speaking at Oxford's Department of Criminology.

Season 6

Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the death of Reuben Beatty who works at the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychology. He has been discovered dead injected by etorphine, a paralysing agent in the offices of psychic ‘Randolph James’.

Lewis and Hobson are examining the body of murdered Vicki Walmsley when a theft of etorphine is reported by the Garsington Equine Centre. The drug was last used a year earlier on a horse that injured its teenage rider, Joshua Grace – the brother-in-law of Reuben Beatty, the first murder victim.

An embalmed body is discovered dumped by an isolated farm track. Funeral director Brian Miller identifies the body and GP Matt Whitby confirms the gentleman died of cancer.

Liam Jay is in intensive care and Lewis and Alex believe that he has information about the death of Matt Whiby and the mysterious cremation. It is revealed by Emma Barnes that Johnny Jay, Liam’s father, was at the fateful supper party and he is missing as well.

As Lewis and Hobson embark on a relationship, a former don is murdered on the night of his release from prison - crushed to death by a Jaguar Mark two.

Episode 5

The corpse of a missing student is discovered in the attic of a college chapel.

Episode 6

Season 7

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.

Hathaway's murder theory has fallen apart. It might take Lewis's insight to close the case - but will his former protege listen?

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.

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?

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.

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.

Season 8

Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the apparent death by drug overdose of over achieving student and amateur taxidermist Talika Desai.

Lewis' team must delve into the worlds of social media, drugs, taxidermy, alternative art and the homeless East European community.

When College Dean Phil Beskin is found bludgeoned to death with a rock in local woodland, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate.

Before the fourth murder takes place, the team must uncover the guilty secret that their victims share in order to learn the identity of both the killer and the potential victim.

When an idyllic Oxford summer's day is torn asunder by a gruesome parcel bomb, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate.

With his six-month trip to New Zealand with Hobson on the horizon, Lewis is in a race against time to save his career and relationship.