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Unusual Facts About Inspector Morse
Colin Dexter who is the author of the novels which Inspector Morse is based on, has actually made several appearances in the TV show. Quite often he can be seen as a drinker in a pub but Colin also played a camero role as a tramp. The filming was done from the top of Carfax Tower in Oxford, and apparently a real tramp grabbed his bottle of meths and ran off. The real down-and-out would have found out later it was just in fact water! Colin Dexter is a cryptic crossword enthusiast and the two of the main characters Morse and Lewis were named after Colins favourite crossword compilers Sir Jeremy Morse and Mrs. B. Lewis. Other characters and places were named after the streets in Summertown neat Oxford when Colin Dexter lives. One interesting fact is the character of Andrew Baydon was actually based on the famous real life disgraced newspaper publisher Robert Maxwell. The car Morse drives in the series is a vintage red Jaguar Mk II, and was bought for the series for £1,000 but then sold at auction after the final episode for over £20,000! What an investment! Some of the famous actors which worked on Inspector Morse include, Patrick Troughton who is most famous for playing the second incarnation of Doctor Who. Kevin Whately who has appeared in Coronation Street and Gemma Jones who played Bridget Jones’s mother Pam Jones in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001). British based Australian Barrington Pheloung wrote the theme music for Inspector Morse Inspector Morse seriously detests spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. This can be seen in scenes where he is reading a document given to him as he always points out any spelling or grammatical mistakes. The first episode was aired on January 6th 1987, and the last was on November 15th 2000. There were 33 episodes made and all lasted for two hours. The final three episodes which were shown in 2000 were watched by a third of the British Population, which is 18 million people. During the 1990s one billion people watched Inspector Morse in 200 countries. Sadly John Thaw died in 2002 and 800 friend, fans and family attended his funeral which was two years after the last Morse special was aired on TV. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com If you are a keen Inspector Morse fan, why not go on a Morse Tour Oxford or the popular Midsomer Murders Tour from Brit Movie Tours. |
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