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''Lewis'' (known as '''''Inspector Lewis''''' in the United States ) is a British Television drama made as a spin-off from '' Inspector Morse '', based in Oxford . Kevin Whately reprises his character Robbie Lewis , who had been Morse's sidekick in the original series. The show is currently filming its second series. CAST Regular
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Series 1 By episode: # Anna Massey (Professor Gold); Sasha Behar (Catherine Linn); Richard Lintern (Sefton Linn); Crispin Redman (Dean Greely); Sian Thomas (Ingrid Nielson); Adrian Rawlins (Harry Bundrick); Richard Dillane (Theodore Platt); Diana Payan (Petra Bundick); Anna Madeley (Anne Platt, née Sadikov); Ellie Kendrick (Megan Linn); Nicola Redmond (Tina Daniels); Martyn Whitby (Staunton); Mark Spalding (Love Lines supervisor) # Owen Teale , Gina McKee , Tom Harper #. PILOT The drama began with a one-off pilot, written by Stephen Churchett from an idea by Russell Lewis , with Morse creator Colin Dexter in a consultant's role. This show attracted 11 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ITV . The episode included background use of the song "Formed a Band" by Art Brut . It was played as Lewis and Hathaway dashed up character Danny Griffon's Oxford college staircase to interview him. DVD release The pilot episode was released on Region 1 2007 . SERIES ONE As a result of the pilot's success, ITV announced a full series of three new episodes, with the same cast, broadcast on ITV on consecutive Sundays. {Link without Title} The episodes are as follows: #‘Whom the Gods Would Destroy’, Sunday 18th February 2007 at 21:00. - Lewis and Hathaway investigate a murder involving a group called the Sons of the Twice Born (named after an epithet of Dionysus relating to His Birth , whose activities are shrouded in Greek codes, quotes from Nietzsche and a Dionysian fondness for drugs. The title is part of a quotation from Euripides - the full quotation is ''Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.'' [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Euripides] Director - Marc Jobst; writer - Daniel Boyle. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0874609/] #‘Old School Ties’, Sunday 25th February at 21:00. - When an ambitious Oxford student is found dead in her hotel room after inviting a reformed computer hacker to speak at the Union, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate. The pair are soon drawn into a case driven by celebrity, ambition and dangerous sexual politics, which strikes alarming chords with Lewis. Director - Sarah Harding; writer - Alan Plater . {Link without Title} #‘Expiation’, Sunday 4th March at 21:00. Director - Dan Reed; writer - Guy Andrews. {Link without Title} Locations #S1 E1 ‘Whom the Gods Would Destroy’. Bundrick's bike shop is Bike Zone Oxford Ltd, on Market Street . #S1 E1 ‘Whom the Gods Would Destroy’ Platt's house is the same location used in This Life 2007 reunion episode. #S1 E1 ‘Whom the Gods Would Destroy’ The Randolph Hotel, Oxford is the meeting place for Inspector Lewis , Hathaway and the late Greely's partner. The Randolph hosts the "Morse Bar" . #S1 E2 ‘Old School Ties’ Extensive use was made of the Malmaison Hotel , which was previously Oxford Prison . #S1 E2 ‘Old School Ties’ College scenes shot in Merton College , which was previously a public brothel. #S1 E3 ‘Expiation’ The Oxford Pitt Rivers Museum exterior and interior. EXTERNAL LINKS
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