Inspector Lewis: Pilot & Series 1

I suppose that Inspector Lewis will always be linked to Morse, not a bad thing as that series was brilliant, as were the actors! John Thaw and Kevin Whately made a series believable and never made an character mistake! It was not seen to be acting, they had become the people you knew and trusted.
Now Kevin Whately (DI Lewis)picking up his life after such personal tragedy, and Laurence Fox (DS Hathaway)giving his own stamp on this charming and very likable, though sensitive character, are just right to carry Thames Valley Police and Oxford into this series for a long and gripping run.
An older Lewis is a humble, dedicated man with intense sympathy for the victim. Hathaway has respect for Lewis; though you cannot (see) all of this young man's character at once, you realize that he will support Lewis no matter what!
I am now looking forward to the next releases of "Inspector Lewis" and I will continue to collect this series

I was and still am a big Morse fan (I bought all of the DVDs when they were $20.00 a pop each). I was really happy to see and buy the Lewis pilot when it first came out and hoped that more episodes would follow. Sooo, It was fantastic when they followed up with the subsequent episodes. They are fantastic. I can't wait for more.

For anyone who is a Morse fan, you will love the relationship between Lewis and Hathaway. The main difference I see is that Lewis is softer and less self absorbed than Morse. Morse was a genius but he acted like the world and Sgt Lewis centered around him. Lewis treats his underling more like a person and he respects his input. I really like this aspect of the show.

More and more great british tv series are making it over here to region one dvd release and that is a great thing. murder city, blue murder, waking the dead, rebus, touch of frost are now out on dvd in the states.
But the most popular of them all was inspector morse and all the episodes are out on dvd in our region. This is the followup series that takes place after the death of inspector morse. John thaw the great actor who played him also died unfortunately. The series is better than the inspector lewis single movie which serves as the pilot here. And that was produced in 2006 and is available as a single disc. make sure you don't buy that one as you get the same movie as the pilot episode here.
the set includes the pilot and three great inspector lewis mystery episodes. the pilot was from 2006 and the first series from 2007. In 2008 they made 4 more episodes that will be set 2. Let's hope they continue to make the show for years to come as well. But if you love a good mystery then this series is well worth your time.

Just finished watching series 1, already saw the pilot before. This is just great, I was and still am a huge "Morse" fan, rewatch my DVD's all the time.
But this promises to be as good as MORSE, but then after all he was Lewis' mentor!!!!
The pairing with Hathaway is excellent, it's a bit reminiscent of some of the exchanges Morse and Lewis had. Just that now Hathaway is the scholar, anyway I could just go on and on.... get the DVD, you will be happy you did!!!

A big fan of the Morse mysteries, both videos and books, I was really pleased when the Inspector Lewis series began and I hope there will be more. Who knew Lewis had so much personality? Totally enjoyable. And his partner Hathaway has some depth, too. A terrifically entertaining series.