Hello everybody and welcome to a ‘new’ post. Spookily over the last few weeks I have had quite a few people telling me that due to copyright infringements in their country they have been unable to watch some of my Youtube videos and in particular the ones regarding Colin’s appearances in all three series.
Thankfully due to my upgrading my blog to a website I am able to upload videos directly to the website bypassing the need to upload them to another platform such as Dailymotion or Youtube first.
For those who have not seen these videos enjoy and for those who have please enjoy again.
Colin did not appear in the episodes, ‘Ghosts in the Machine’, ‘Promised Land’, ‘The Secret of Bay 5B’ and ‘Sins of the Father’. I don’t believe he appeared in the episode, ‘Death of the Self’ either but other fans have said that he appears in the crowd scene near the end of the episode. I have included that clip in this video so you can make up your own mind.
Next up we have the Lewis video. Since I made this there have been a few other sightings noticed:
A double appearance of Colin Dexter in a Lewis episode. While watching the Lewis episode ‘Allegory of Love’ (Series 3, Episode 1) I was surprised by not only Mr Dexter appearing twice in the episode but that I hadn’t noticed this on a previous viewing.
Colin’s first appearance in the episode coming out of the Randolph at 6 minutes and 10 seconds.
Colin’s second appearance in the episode at 20 minutes and 24 seconds.
Thanks to Roland an eagle-eyed blog reader, we have another Lewis episode where he appears twice; ‘Life Born of Fire’ (Series 2, Episode 3). The first time he appears in the episode at 47 minutes and 35 seconds I had noticed.
The second sighting I never noticed and that is at the end of the episode at one hour, 31 minutes and 43 seconds.
There are two videos concerning Colin’s appearances in Lewis.
Next we have the appearances of Colin in the Endeavour series. My video only has appearance up to the episode ‘Coda’ (Series 3, Episode 4). For all other appearances see below video.
A follower of my blog, Fran, believes she may have found Colin in the final episode, ‘Coda’. I think she may be right. Colin’s appearance happens during the concert Endeavour attends at 14 minutes and 20 seconds. Fran believes Colin is one of the cello players; the one where we only see the back of his head. Why would the camera linger on the back of this person’s head unless they were leaving a clue to something important. What do you all think of this idea?
Endeavour S4E1 ‘Game’:
As most of you will know Colin Dexter did not be appear in the series four episodes due to ill health. However the producers have made sure that he appears in the episode in one way or another. In this episode Colin’s picture hangs in the office of Dorothea Frazil.
Endeavour: Series 4, Episode 2 ‘Canticle’:
In this episode Colin’s picture appears in the newspaper shown near the end of the episode.
Endeavour: Series 4, Episode 3, ‘Lazaretto’:
In this episode Colin’s picture appears as a caricature in a drawing on the hospital ward.
Endeavour: Series 4, Episode 4, ‘Harvest’:
It took two viewings to find Mr Dexter and it is a rather cunning way to have him in the show if not physically.
ENDEAVOUR: ‘Muse’ S5E1;
The newspaper is being read by George Fancy in Lewis Peek’s first scene in the police station.
ENDEAVOUR: ‘CARTOUCHE’ S5E2:
ENDEAVOUR: ‘Passenger’ S5E3:
A lovely tribute to Colin. Employee of the month? Perversely he was our employee. We handed him our hard earned cash and he wrote many excellent books for all of us. 🙂
ENDEAVOUR: ‘COLOURS’ S5E4;
ENDEAVOUR: ‘Quartet’ S5E5;
Difficult one this week. I could be wrong in this but the chap who was sitting at the back of the pub in the final scene did have a look of Colin Dexter.
Also, Endeavour looks at him as the scene fades to black.
ENDEAVOUR: ‘ICARUS’ S5E6;
I’m not 100% sure but… This is during the scene when Thursday and Strange are interviewing Blackwell.
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