If Regan was brawn, Morse was brain – and this ITV series was equally cerebral.
John Thaw played his second all-time great detective and the contrast with The Sweeney’s Jack Regan couldn’t be starker. If Regan was brawn, Morse was brain – and this ITV series was equally cerebral. The high-class adaptation of Colin Dexter’s novels elevated the classic British whodunit to new heights, with DCI Morse and DS Lewis ( Kevin Whately) becoming a contemporary Oxford version of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.