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Inspector Lewis: Pilot & Series 1 | 
 enlarge | Director: Inspector Lewis
Actor: Inspector Lewis
Studio: WGBH Boston
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.95
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 6196
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 240
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 42789
UPC: 783421427891
EAN: 0783421427891
ASIN: B0019QOKRI
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: September 2, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED!
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 great series, looning forward to more December 6, 2008
I watched this series on PBS and was hoping it would come out on DVD. The two lead actors are very good. They have different personalities, one very laid back and the other serious and tech savvy. I am hoping there will be more.
PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING!!!! October 30, 2008
I own every Inspector Morse DVD. I WILL own every Inspector Lewis DVD...as long as I can get my hands on them.
This is not a "rerun" of Morse, for Lewis and Hathaway are their own men. Although the scripts are just as intelligent, the scenery is still breathtakingly beautiful and the acting superb...Lewis and his partner Hathaway are giving us the gift of wonderful British Detective stories with their own personalities.
It is wonderful.
Please sign me up for every DVD you can acquire.
 Too bad it was spoiled October 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like many who looked forward to this series I'm a big fan of Inspector Morse. I thought the pilot was very good and when we finally got a follow-up I made sure that I set my recorder to capture it. To my great dismay I found the first two episodes impossible to watch because of the incessant, inane music, mixed way too loud, that accompanied virtually every scene. It got so annoying that we couldn't get through an entire episode. I'm not sure if this is surprising or not. The music in many of the British mystery series has been on a downward slope - from the absolute high of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Homes series (composer: Patrick Gowers) - for some time. The Morse series was quite good as was Poirot. Not so for Inspector Lewis. It sounds like a kid playing with his synthesizer. Fairly realistic sounds, but musically nil and not enhancing of the story line at all. A shame.
Oxford Murders Happening Again October 3, 2008
This is an entertaining mystery series that takes place in the beautiful setting of Oxford. For those of us who were Inspector Morse fans for years it is great to catch up with Lewis. The filming of this is as before a visual treat. The upper class bad guys are great to see. Everyone is so rather polite and nice when first met that one cannot believe what a mess is their private lives. The superintendent Strange has been replaced with one who is Innocent and a woman.
Lewis is still his down to earth self, but much sadder as his wife has been killed in an hit-an-run. He seems to have returned with some of his mentors habits: making his Sargent drink the orange juice while he has a pint, telling interviewees that it's too bad they must be interrupted but this is a murder investigation after all, and listening to and enjoying classical music. The new Sargent is the educated one. I wonder if he could become a "Morse" character as he ages. He might learn some of Morse style behaviors from Lewis.
I can't wait for Season Two. Of course, this isn't Morse, but life goes on and he did make a difference in our lives.
 New younger sidekick updates the series for the times October 1, 2008
Somehow I could never bring myself to watch the Morse shows (even though I know I would probably enjoy them), despite being a literary Anglophile type. Thank God for Laurence Fox (son of actor James Fox) who updates this series and supercharges the screen with his own brand of coy humor (and introduces iPods and Blackberry's to Oxford). Fox is sleek as an otter, playing a Cambridge man, an ex-theology student who plays medieval instruments set to contemporary jazz. It's almost a chick lit dream come true. The producers were on to something by pairing him with Kevin Whately. A new generation of younger viewers will now be watching and worshipping.
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