Fans of the Inspector Morse, Lewis and Endeavour TV series have visited the city to see the locations and inevitably sought out the pubs they saw on screen. While some of the pubs used as locations were actually out of the county many were not and here we are featuring 10 hostelries which have appeared in TV episodes over more than three decades. The TV dramas are based on characters created by Oxford author Colin Dexter, who died in 2017.
1: The White Horse in Broad Street and The Old Bookbinders Ale House in Jericho featured in the first ever Inspector Morse episode, The Dead of Jericho in 1987. 2: The Turf Tavern and The Jericho Tavern are in The Silent Word of Nicholas Quinn. 3: The Randolph Hotel bar and the Trout Inn are in The Wolvercote Tongue.
4: The Boat Inn at Thrupp near Kidlington is in The Last Enemy. 5: The Eagle and Child is in episode two of series nine of Endeavour. 6: The White Horse appears again in The Secret of Bay 5B.
7: The Trout Inn appears again in Second Time Around, while the Eagle and Child doubles as Shears wine bar. 8: The Victoria Arms in Old Marston is in Who Killed Harry Field? 9: The Turf Tavern is in Dead On Time 10: Lewis (Kevin Whately) follows a prisoner into the Bear Inn in Absolute Conviction. Mr Dexter was often given cameo roles in the TV dramas, and liked to drink at the Randolph Hotel where a bar has been named in his honour.
He died in 2017 and said in his will he wanted Endeavour to be the final TV series. Pubs across the city, w.
