Shaun Evans

Shaun Evans and Roger Allam have starred in the ITV crime drama since 2012 as Endeavour Morse and Fred Thursday, and viewers were eager to see how the story ...

And the reason that we will be friends for life is because the work is so important to both of us." "And the push and pull of it. Speaking about the significant ending to the show, Shaun paid tribute to his co-star Roger, stating the pair would remain "friends for life". But we’re going to be friends for life. It was all about the work. The series has remained popular ever since it first hit screens, but the weekend saw the end of an era as all was finally revealed about the two central characters.

Fans have been tearful as the final series of ITV's drama Endeavour is well and truly under way. The much-loved crime show, which is a prequel to the ...

[BBC](https://www.mylondon.news/all-about/bbc) Vigil star is that he once dated a famous ex who was once named the world's sexiest woman. Shaun once admitted the reason he prefers to be away from the spotlight is because he doesn't see himself as someone who has a "public persona". He said: "[Endeavour has] little impact on my life which I like because I'm not a person who has a public persona, or a profile on social media. Fans have been tearful as the final series of ITV's drama Endeavour is well and truly under way. His other TV appearances include Murder City, the BBC's Ashes to Ashes and Gently's Last Stand, however, his role as Endeavour Morse has been his breakthrough. The detective series first aired in 2012, with a pilot episode that featured Morse.

The Endeavour season 9 finale, Exeunt, revealed why Inspector Morse never mentions Fred Thursday in John Thaw's original series.

For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to [The Radio Times Podcast](https://www.radiotimes.com/audio/podcasts/). [ITVX](https://www.itv.com/watch/endeavour/2a1229?gclid=CjwKCAiA9NGfBhBvEiwAq5vSyxPCif6BZXZdqZW3OeenZKQZaJb3DKVDL6lzwQi8iOnuIoz58k7I4RoCxJoQAvD_BwE) now. And, as the audience will discover, there is something about Thursday that Endeavour will, indeed, take to his grave. When talking to Sam in the church yard, he says they should catch up and go for a drink but their conversation is cut short when a member of the biker gang rides past, prompting Sam to bolt up and leave. Before they go their separate ways, Fred gives Endeavour his gun and Endeavour says “Goodbye sir” to Fred just as Inspector Lewis said to Morse when he died. And there is something – something goes wrong in it that, in the end, results in a kind of parting of the ways for Morse and Thursday. Which I think we do satisfactorily in this. But it's back at the pub's yard that trouble starts to brew, with Tomahawk continuously looking in Sam's direction. Because of Tomahawk's death, Sam is clearly now at risk. Fred questions Win (Caroline O'Neill) about it that evening, who says that Sam only did so until he gets some money of his own. But Tomahawk tries to stab Fred, leading to Fred stabbing him instead. Allam had said: “I mean, there is a bit of a crisis with Sam.

The Inspector Morse prequel bows out after nine season, during which scepticism at Shaun Evans's casting has given way to admiration.

From the charnel house of Blenheim Vale we moved to Blenheim Palace where two Jags, black and burgundy, passed in a golden sunset. But there was to be no banishment and, though the script flirted with it, no repeat of the heart attack that will eventually fell Morse. (Likewise, the toxic aristos in the second episode were an unencrypted attack on our quondam Bullingdonian rulers.) [young Herriot](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/09/16/creatures-great-small-should-have-confidence-british-tv/), young Tennison and even young Del Boy, who’s next for the prequel treatment? The ninth series seemed to stick with the gag. Who didn’t dab a tear as young Morse hugged his bride-not-to-be, and the script permitted him the dream fulfilment of a smooch on the never-never?

This last episode of the Inspector Morse prequel had issues to wrap up – and did it with style. From brilliantly excruciating moments to its intriguing ...

In their final scene together, Thursday gives Morse a gun, implicitly to protect himself from the bent coppers. Screenwriter Lewis included lots of neat quotations from the franchise: the young copper singing in a choir matched a scene in the first Inspector Morse, a shot of the officer in a hospital bed shadowed one in the final Morse. Lewis made devastating use of the brutal lines from Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part II, when the newly crowned Henry V dismisses his former mentor Falstaff: “I know thee not, old man.” Those words from Morse to Thursday marked the rupture between them that had been building in these final episodes due to the older copper’s involvement with some corrupt policemen. But the most significant references were in Latin: a touching double tribute to Dexter, a former classics master, and Morse, who had his own passion for ancient languages. Several Funerals and a Wedding might have been the subtitle of this script in which Morse had to watch the woman he loved, but sacrificed for work – Thursday’s daughter Joan – marry oafish Oxford copper Jim Strange. He needs to hand over the role to John Thaw in Inspector Morse, which preceded Endeavour on our screens but follows it in the story of the Thames Valley detective created by Colin Dexter.

Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour harked back to the original series during its final show after a 36-episode run which concluded on Sunday evening.

'My last view of Colin is him taking Shaun's arm across to his car. Endeavour is a prequel to the iconic detective series which ran for more than a decade, before ending two years before John's death in 2002. Endeavour pays tribute to the late John Thaw who played the original Morse with a touching scene in the final moments of the last ever episode