Inspector Hathaway
Will we have to wait for Kevin to die, like Morse, or will an Inspector Hathaway series be forthcoming?
I think Inspector Hathaway would be a series up to the standards set by the original.
I don't think it has to take Lewis' death for us to see a Hathaway series. Kevin could even show up as regular in the new series. I want to see Hathaway reinvestigate the Blenheim Vale case.
shareAgreed. Lewis has already made way for Hathaway by retiring, although (IIRC) Hathaway had to motivate himself to get promoted after his time away from the force. I suspect it hinges on whether there's interest in producing a new series of programs and whether Laurence Fox is willing to continue in the role.
The connection to Morse would be rather tenuous: currently we have Inspector Morse, the sequel (Lewis) and the prequel (Endeavour). Hathaway would have to have to stand largely on his own. (Too bad Innocent is gone.)
The new program would need some links, Endeavour has Max / Strange and a whole bunch of names like Matthew Copley-Barnes.
Lewis had the wonderful Laura and few early references from people who knew / remembered Morse.
Hathaway would need something that I can't see yet. A few appearances of Laura / Lewis would be good but Lizzie Maddox and Joe Moody would be too late and too tenuous. Maybe Angela Griffin's character would do at a stretch. Innocent would be better than Moody as she had 8 series, although I felt Jean wasn't used very much at all in the later series.
Just "Hathaway" on his own would be a bit sad, rather like relocating the whole thing to Slough. As the poster above says it needs something "Dexter" to help it along. James Hathaway has little or nothing to do with "Morse-world"
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I'd watch a show about Hathaway and Maddox.
I would watch it too. Just being set in Oxford is enough of a connection to Morse and Lewis. Filming in the same locations, running into civilians and the odd villain who remembers either (or both) of the previous inspectors. They did manage to connect Endeavor to Lewis with Hathaway's father. Maybe Thursday's grandchild shows up as a PC. Maybe Jakes' grandchild is a visiting bigwig from America.
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Yes, I would watch that too. I got last season from the library which was the UK full episodes and Maddox had more scenes(as did Hobson). She is an intriguing addition and I'd like to learn more about her. Plus her character adds warmth to Hathaway's approach and they make a good team, IMO. And of course, Hathaway is fascinating too. I enjoyed also how the music, especially in the finale episode, intertwined Morse's theme or even just a few notes of it, whenever a particular location that was important in a Morse or Endeavour episode, such as when they ascend the stairs in the lab building.
shareIt would be great to have both or either one of our guys return occasionally. Unfortunately, both have expressed their desire to move on with other completely different projects: Kevin seems interested in returning to the stage in different ventures and spending more time with his family, grandkids, etc.
Laurence is focusing on his music. He, especially, has said rather emphatically that he would never do it without Kevin, that he has no desire to be the lead in a stand alone show as Hathaway. Also, Laurence has had his life torn-up with his divorce from Billie Piper and states that he has an enormous amount of healing to go through for a "long while".
The sentiment has been that they have killed off half of the Oxford professionals and want something extremely different of refresh themselves. For us, each episode has been like having family show up. For them: not so much any more.
Thank You to ITV for all the reruns we will enjoy for a long time1
A Checkered Life speaks of myriad diverse adventures being the rewards of endless curiosity.
Thank you for the background info on Laurence Fox. The cast are like family.
I felt the 9th series was a let-down after series 8, which overall seemed to feature a lot of the quality we have come to expect from the show. For that reason, I felt there was hope for a "Hathaway" series to redeem that incredibly anticlimactic feeling that I felt from series 9.
Maybe we just have to revel in revisiting favorite episodes past? I could do that for years with Lewis, not so much with Morse. Perhaps Laurence could be coaxed into an occasional one-off in the character? That would be great and not strain the fact that the body count around Oxford has been quite high over the recent past, as you point out.
Like you and so many others, these characters have become so well-known to me - and greatly loved - that they are a part of my imaginary English family (as if any exist)!
The actors have been amazing and in so many ways I found them to redeem the too often cynical Morse episodes. John Thaw was a superior actor; however, Morse was too tiresome for my overly upbeat American personality. I too often griped at the TV, asking him to "Lighten up!!", and always receiving more whining.
Fortunately, Lewis would save the scene and the program could continue unabated. Max and that first woman pathologist, who arrived after his departure, were wonderful. I loved both spunky ladies confronting him about his "Dear" (spoken in a belittling tone} that he then scrambled to excuse.
The saving feature was actually (and literally) that TV Morse was loads better than Book Morse. The volumes were very painful reads, yet worth doing since some of the mysteries were different and interesting in Morse's meandering search for "his" solutions. It won't surprise you that Robbie did 75-80% of the labor in fact-finding, so that Morse's 5th or 6th "solution" was finally the correct one.
The TV folks cut many of Book Morse's rambling peregrinations (pub to pub to pub) prior to each final answer for TV Morse.
A Checkered Life speaks of myriad diverse adventures being the rewards of endless curiosity.
The cast are like family.
So true! I was very overcome by sadness at this final episode. Very moving to me. I can't believe I won't likely see Lewis again. I would watch a "Hathaway and Maddox" spin-off.
I do dislike the new captain, though.
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Sounds like a good spin-off idea. Your mention of Lewis does make me think that, given his life rich with experiences of Morse and now the years with learned Hathaway, it is all panning out a bit bourgeois, n'est-ce pas? Killer is the home?
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