Seasons & episodes
S0 · E1Pilot 2006-01-29 · 90 min
Inspector Lewis investigates the death of a brilliant young maths student at Oxford University.
S1 · E1Whom the Gods Would Destroy 2007-02-18 · 90 min
Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate case involving one of the Oxford University's most prominent figures.
S1 · E2Old School Ties 2007-02-25 · 90 min
Lewis comes face to face with his past in a case driven by celebrity, scheming, and dangerous sexual politics.
S1 · E3Expiation 2007-03-04 · 90 min
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.
S2 · E1And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea 2008-02-24 · 90 min
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.
S2 · E2Music to Die For 2008-03-02 · 90 min
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.
S2 · E3Life Born of Fire 2008-03-09 · 90 min
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.
S2 · E4The Great and the Good 2008-03-16 · 90 min
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.
S3 · E1Allegory of Love 2009-03-22 · 90 min
Lewis investigates the murder of a beautiful young Eastern European woman whose death comes straight from the pages of a popular fantasy novel.
S3 · E2The Quality of Mercy 2009-03-29 · 90 min
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.
S3 · E3The Point of Vanishing 2009-04-05 · 90 min
When religious fanatic Steven Mullan is murdered, Lewis investigates celebrity atheist Tom Rattenbury and his family, who had been attacked by Mullan.
S3 · E4Counter Culture Blues 2009-04-12 · 90 min
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.
S4 · E1The Dead of Winter 2010-05-02 · 90 min
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.
S4 · E2Dark Matter 2010-05-09 · 90 min
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.
S4 · E3Your Sudden Death Question 2010-05-16 · 90 min
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.
S4 · E4Falling Darkness 2010-05-30 · 90 min
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.
S5 · E1Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things 2011-04-03 · 90 min
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.
S5 · E2Wild Justice 2011-04-11 · 90 min
Lewis investigates when a visiting female bishop is poisoned. Then two more deaths occur, both mirroring macabre murders from Jacobean revenge tragedy.
S5 · E3The Mind Has Mountains 2011-04-17 · 90 min
The ethics of a questionable drug on the Oxford campus of anti-depressants calls into account the questionable judgment of a psychiatry professor.
S5 · E4The Gift of Promise 2011-04-24 · 90 min
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.
S6 · E1The Soul of Genius 2012-05-16 · 90 min
When a botanist accidentally digs up the body of the recently buried Murray Hawes, Lewis and Hathaway are set upon a seemingly impossible quest.
S6 · E2Generation of Vipers 2012-05-23 · 90 min
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.
S6 · E3Fearful Symmetry 2012-05-30 · 90 min
When a babysitter is found dead, Lewis and Hathaway are drawn into diverse new worlds including squats, swinging suburbia, primate labs and fetish photography.
S6 · E4The Indelible Stain 2012-06-06 · 90 min
Lewis and Hathaway investigate when a controversial American academic is murdered after speaking at Oxford's Department of Criminology.