THE death of Inspector Morse helped ITV trounce BBC1 in the ratings war. More than 50% of Wednesday's peak-time television audience watched actor John Thaw bow out as the irritable detective after ...

Let the grieving begin. Tonight, PBS presents the final chapter of the beloved Inspector Morse series, and with it the conclusion of the 21-year-old Mystery! franchise. It's a conscious move from ...

LONDON — John Thaw, known to millions of TV viewers worldwide as the grumpy, music-loving detective in “Inspector Morse,” died Thursday at his home in London. He was 60 and had been battling ...

John Thaw's cranky Inspector Morse tosses off that nugget of truth tonight. And in this case of Mystery! it goes double. Say farewell to Thaw's white-haired, blue-eyed, ...

TV favourite John Thaw is undergoing treatment for cancer. The 59-year-old actor, known to a generation as Inspector Morse, is suffering from cancer of the oesophagus ...

Back in 1987, actor John Thaw brought the endearingly cantankerous Inspector Morse to life on screen for the first time. Now, nearly 30 years later, John Thaw’s daughter helps to keep that ...

But no one who ever saw the John Thaw "Morse's" can watch "Endeavour" without feeling a bit nostalgic and maybe a little, well, remorseful as well. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad.

But it was really Morse which sealed John Thaw's place in that part of the nation's heart reserved for television heroes. In the 13 years of playing the irascible Inspector, Thaw displayed all the ...

After the equivalent of 32 feature-length movies broadcast over 13 seasons, the popular British-made “Inspector Morse” detective series is coming to an end Thursday night (9 p.m. on WTTW-Ch. 11).

Few would ever call PBS especially courageous, but it took real guts to tamper with the near-sacred memory of John Thaw as Inspector Morse by airing a prequel on “Masterpiece Mystery.” Twenty ...

Inspector Morse fans have been left gobsmacked discovering a detail about John Thaw (Picture: ITV/REX/Shutterstock) An old photo from Inspector Morse has left many people scratching their heads ...