Evans! It's a brand new Endeavour for moustachioed Morse

ACTOR Shaun Evans takes on a Sweeney look as the new series of Endeavour is brought up to 1969. In the sixth series of the prequel to Inspector Morse, the young detective sergeant now has a moustache and boasts an open-top sports car in what appears to be a nod to the late actor John Thaw’s time in 1970s police drama The Sweeney.
By DAVID STEPHENSON - Express

Thaw went on to play the original Inspector Morse, the Oxford detective created by Colin Dexter.

Evans himself will direct one of the Endeavour episodes, following his success at the helm of two episodes of the BBC’s Casualty earlier this year.

And Endeavour Morse has a role change too, starting as a uniformed officer with Woodstock police.

Roger Allam makes a comeback as Detective Inspector Fred Thursday, alongside Anton Lesser as Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright, Sean Rigby as Detective Sergeant Jim Strange, James Bradshaw as Dr Max DeBryn, Sara Vickers as Joan Thursday, Abigail Thaw – John Thaw’s daughter – as Dorothea Frazil and Caroline O’Neill as Win Thursday.

The story picks up from the dissolution of Oxford City Police and the merger with Thames Valley Constabulary at the end of the last series.

But despite their separation, the unsolved murder of Detective Constable George Fancy still hangs over the team.

Other faces in the new series include Two And A Half Men star Sophie Winkleman, Indian Summers actor Blake Ritson and EastEnders actress Alison Newman.