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"Inspector Morse" Dead on Time (1992)
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26 February 1992
(Season 6, Episode 1)
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Henry Fallon, who is wheelchair bound and is suffering from a neurological disorder, apparently commits...
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Actually one of the more poignant Morse episodes!
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(Episode Cast overview, first billed only)| John Thaw | ... | Chief Inspector Morse | |
| Kevin Whately | ... | Detective Sergeant Lewis | |
| Brendan O'Hea | ... | Telecom Engineer | |
| David Haig | ... | Peter Rhodes | |
| Susan Jane Tanner | ... | Nurse Rogers (as Susan-Jane Tanner) | |
| James Walker | ... | Henry Fallon | |
| Martyn Waites | ... | Duty Constable | |
| Thomas Craig | ... | Desk Sergeant | |
| Roger Frost | ... | Photographer | |
| James Grant | ... | McGregor | |
| Richard Pasco | ... | William Bryce-Morgan | |
| Joanna David | ... | Susan Fallon | |
| Lesley Vickerage | ... | WPC | |
| Christopher Owen | ... | Solicitor | |
| Richard Hampton | ... | Coroner |
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[talking about his mechanical bucking bronco]
William Bryce-Morgan: It doesn't eat, it doesn't poo.
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William Bryce-Morgan: It doesn't eat, it doesn't poo.
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Dead On Time is beautiful, and very sad towards the end. One thing that stood out was the beautiful music by Schubert playing over the first five minutes or so. It perfectly matched what was on screen, and somehow made the scene very poignant. The plot is fairly complex, with the apparent suicide of an elderly don, and we learn that the victim's wife, played by a sympathetic Joanna David, and Morse some 30 years previously were engaged to be married. The plot then reveals a car crash, resulting in the death of the victim's daughter and grandson, but this unfolds after the son-in-law is implicated for the murder of his father-in-law. I thought the ending was extremely sad, with Susan killing herself, and Morse refuses to accept that he is wrong, as he thinks the family doctor did it, in a conspiracy between him and the victim to implicate the son-in-law, but Lewis learns that Susan did it to fulfil her husband's promise. The writers quite sensibly made Morse more sensitive here, but I did find him very scary in the interview room scene, that is all thanks to the outstanding performance of John Thaw. Kevin Whately matches him perfectly as his loyal sergeant Lewis, even more so when he can't bring himself to tell Morse the truth, and James Grout, Joanna David, Adrian Dunbar and Samantha Bond provide able support. All in all, an episode that is most likely to tug at your heart-strings. 10/10 Bethany Cox.