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Being something of lover of lists I took up this challenge in the hope it may be of interest to other Morse fans. Let’s start off with how people died and from which episodes. The numbers in brackets after the means of death relates to the total number of deaths for that particular method.
There will, of course, be spoilers within this post.
Suicide – (12) ‘The Dead of Jericho’ (hanging), ‘The Wolvercote Tongue’ (sleeping pills): ‘The Secret of Bay 5b’ (hanging): ‘Masonic Mysteries’ (gun): ‘Promised Land’ (gun): ‘Dead on Time, (assisted): ‘Dead on Time’ (pills): ‘Death of the Self’ (cutting wrists): ‘Cherubim and Seraphim’ (3 deaths; pain killers, train and unknown): The Daughters of Cain jumped out of window high on drugs.
Head Bashed in – (11) ‘Dead of Jericho’ (bedpost): ‘The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn’ (poker): ‘The Wolvercote Tongue’ (brick): ‘Settling of the Sun’ (unknown weapon): ‘Settling of the Sun’ (croquet mallet): ‘Ghost in the Machine’ (camera tripod): ‘Sins of the Fathers’ (paper weight): ‘Happy Families’ (unknown weapon, twice): ‘Deadly Slumber’ (wrench): ‘Way Through the Woods’ (unknown weapon):
Poisoning – (1) ‘The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn’ (cyanide).
Stabbed – (17) ‘Service of all the Dead’ (knife), ‘The Wolvercote Tongue’ (knife): ‘Deceived by Flight’ (scissors): ‘Driven to Distraction’ (knife, three murders): ‘Masonic Mysteries’ (knife): ‘Second Time Around’ (knife): ‘Who Killed Harry Field’ (spike): ‘Happy Families’ (knife): ‘Absolute Conviction’ (syringe plunged into chest): ‘Day of the Devil’ (knife but also set alight with petrol): ‘Way Through the Woods’ (knife): ‘The Daughters of Cain’ (knife, twice): ‘The Remorseful Day’ (twice).
Strangled – (4) ‘Service of all the Dead’ (rope): ‘Settling of the Sun’ (rope): ‘The Secret of Bay 5b’ (Unknown): ‘The Wench is Dead’.
Accident – (7) ‘Service of all the Dead’ (slip from church roof): ‘Last Bus to Woodstock (run over by car): ‘Second Time Around’ (head hits fireplace): ‘Greeks Bearing Gifts’ (fall from a balcony): ‘Death of the Self’ (spike attached to tree): ‘The Daughters of Cain’ (fall from window): ‘Death is now my Neighbour’ (falling down stairs).
Heart Attack – (7)‘The Wolvercote Tongue’: ‘The Infernal Serpent’: ‘Fat Chance’ (combination of pills and wine): ‘Promised Land’ (stroke): ‘Absolute Conviction’ (during a fight): ‘Deadly Slumber’: ‘The Remorseful Day’.
Natural Causes – (2) ‘Settling of the Sun’: ‘The Wench is Dead’.
Car Crash – (4) ‘Ghost in the Machine’: ‘Dead on Time’ (two people): ‘Cherubim and Seraphim’.
Shot – (13) ‘The Last Enemy’ (twice): ‘The Secret of Bay 5b’: ‘Promised Land (twice): ‘Happy Families’: ‘Day of the Devil’: ‘Twilight of the Gods’: ‘Way Through the Woods’ (three, once with gun and twice by shotgun): ‘Death is now my Neighbour’ (twice).
Bludgeoned – (2) ‘The Last Enemy’ (unknown weapon): ‘The Remorseful Day’ (metal crutch).
Fire – (3) ‘Deceived by Flight’ (3 unknown men in a shop).
Electrocution – (1) ‘Deceived by Flight’ (radio wire).
Cancer – (1) ‘The Infernal Serpent’.
Drowning – (2) ‘Sins of the Fathers’ (in a fermenting vat, twice).
Broken Neck – (2) ‘Greeks Bearing Gifts’ (head wrenched back, twice).
AIDS – (1) ‘Promised Land’.
Asphyxiation – (1) ‘Deadly Slumber’ (carbon monoxide).
Removed from Life Support – (1) ‘Deadly Slumber’.
Brain Tumour – (1) ‘The Daughters of Cain’.
Fall – (1) ‘The Remorseful Day’ (ladder knocked away from victim).
Unclear – (9) (1) Lionel Pawlin’s death in ‘Service of all the Dead’ could have been suicide or murder. He jumped or was pushed from the church tower. (2) In the same episode it is unclear as to how Peter Morris and Brenda Josephs were murdered. (3) In the episode ‘Last Seen Wearing’ it is unclear if Cheryl Baines is pushed from the top of the stairs or fell. (4) In the episode ‘Settling of the Sun’ it is unclear as to how the Japanese drug dealer killed Michael Robson. (5) In the episode ‘The Infernal Serpent’ it looks unclear as to how Blanche killed her husband Matthew Copley Barnes but it looks like she used a heavy object. (6) How Desmond McNutt is killed isn’t made clear in the episode, ‘Masonic Mysteries’. (7) John Mitchell beaten by Dawson but unclear as to ‘beaten by what’. Probably fists. (8) In ‘Who Killed Harry Field’ how Harry was killed is unknown. (9) How Steven Ford is murdered in ‘Happy Families’ isn’t clear but a stonemason’s tool is found alongside his body.
TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS = 103
Breaking it down by gender there have been 32 female deaths in the 33 episodes of Morse. Of those 32 fourteen were murdered while 53 men were murdered, (possibly 54 if you count the death of Lionel Pawlin in the episode Service of all the Dead). There has been a female murderer twelve times: Mrs Warbut in Settling of the Sun; Lady Hanbury in Ghost in the Machine; Kate Donn in Deceived by Flight; Blanche Copley Barnes in The Infernal Serpent; Isobel Radford in Sins of the Fathers; Friday Rees kills two people in Greeks Bearing Gifts; Susan Fallon assists her husband in his suicide in Dead on Time; Margaret Cliff kills three people in Happy Families; Jessica in Happy Families; Karen Anderson kills three people in The Way Through the Woods; Julia Stevens in The Daughters of Cain; Angela Storrs kills two people in Death is now my Neighbour.
Rosemary Henderson was an accomplice to a murder in The Secret of Bay 5B and WPC Nora Curtis shot John Peter Barrie in self defence in the episode, The Day of the Devil.
The second part of this post is pictures of all those characters who died by fair means or foul. Those names with a picture of a box with a question mark denotes that the character is never actually seen in the episode but their death has been mentioned.
SUICIDE
(11) ‘The Dead of Jericho’ (hanging), ‘The Wolvercote Tongue’ (sleeping pills): ‘The Secret of Bay 5b’ (hanging): ‘Masonic Mysteries’ (gun): ‘Promised Land’ (gun): ‘Dead on Time, (assisted): ‘Dead on Time’ (pills): ‘Death of the Self’ (cutting wrists): ‘Cherubim and Seraphim’ (3 deaths; pain killers, train and unknown).
Matthew Rodway jumped out of a college window high on drugs. Not seen in the episode. (The Daughters of Cain).
Anne Staveley (Dead of Jericho)
Marion Kemp (The Wolvercote Tongue)
Brian Pearce (The Secret Of Bay 5B)
Hugo De Vries (Masonic Mysteries)
Mike Harding (Promised land)
Henry Fallon (Dead on Time)
Susan Fallon (Dead on Time)
May Lawrence (Death of the Self)
Marilyn Garrett (Cherubim and Seraphim)
Jacko Lever (Cherubim and Seraphim)
Unknown Girl (Cherubim and Seraphim)
HEAD BASHED IN
(11) ‘Dead of Jericho’ (bedpost): ‘The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn’ (poker): ‘The Wolvercote Tongue’ (brick): ‘Settling of the Sun’ (unknown weapon): ‘Settling of the Sun’ (croquet mallet): ‘Ghost in the Machine’ (camera tripod): ‘Sins of the Fathers’ (paper weight): ‘Happy Families’ (unknown weapon, twice): ‘Deadly Slumber’ (wrench): ‘Way Through the Woods’ (unknown weapon):
George Jackson (Dead of Jericho). Killed by Alan Richards.
Philip Ogilby (The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn) Killed by Donald Martin.
Theodore Kemp (The Wolvercote Tongue) . Was said to be an accident. ‘Killed’ by Cedric Downws.
Substitute Yukio Li (Settling of the Sun). Killed by the real Yukio Li.
Real Yukio Li (Settling of the Sun) killed by Mrs Warbut.
Lord Hanbury (Ghost in the Machine) killed by Lady Hanbury.
Alfred Nelson (Sins of the Fathers) Killed Isobel Radford.
Sir John Balcombe (Happy Families) killed by Margaret Cliff.
Michael Steppings (Deadly Slumber) killed by John Brewster.
Harry Balcombe (Happy Families) killed by Margaret Cliff.
James Myton (The Way through the Woods) killed by Cathy Michaels.
POISONING
(1) ‘The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn’ (cyanide).
Nicholas Quinn (The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn) killed by Donald Martin.
STABBED
(17) ‘Service of all the Dead’ (knife), ‘The Wolvercote Tongue’ (knife): ‘Deceived by Flight’ (scissors): ‘Driven to Distraction’ (knife, three murders): ‘Masonic Mysteries’ (knife): ‘Second Time Around’ (knife): ‘Who Killed Harry Field’ (spike): ‘Happy Families’ (knife): ‘Absolute Conviction’ (syringe plunged into chest): ‘Day of the Devil’ (knife but also set alight with petrol): ‘Way Through the Woods’ (knife): ‘The Daughters of Cain’ (knife, twice): ‘The Remorseful Day’ (twice).
Simon Pawlen (Service of all the Dead) Killed by Harry Josephs.
Lucy Downes (Wolvercote Tongue) by Cedric Downws.
Peter Foster (Deceived by Flight) killed by Jamie Jasper.
Jackie Thorn (Driven to Distraction) killed by Derek Whittaker.
Paula Steadman (Driven to Distraction) killed by Derek Whittaker. 
Maureen Thompson (Driven to Distraction)
Beryl Newsome (Masonic Mysteries) killed by Hugo DeVries.
Mary Lapsley (Second Time Around) killed by Terrance Mitchell.
Paul Eirl (Who Killed Harry Field?) Harry Field Senior.
Lady Balcombe (Happy Families) Killed by Jessica.
Roland Sherman (Absolute Conviction) killed by Charlie Bennet.
Steven Trevors (Day of the Devil) is killed by John Peter Barrie.
Dr. Felix McClure (The Daughters of Cain) killed by Ted Brooks.
Ted Brooks (The Daughters of Cain) killed Julia Stevens.
Harry Repp (The Remorseful Day) killed by John Barron.
Paddy Flynn (The Remorseful Day) killed by John Barron.
STRANGLED
(4) ‘Service of all the Dead’ (rope): ‘Settling of the Sun’ (rope): ‘The Secret of Bay 5b’ (Unknown): ‘The Wench is Dead’.
Paul Morris (Service of all the Dead) killed by Harry Josephs.
Graham Daniel (Settling of the Sun) killed by Yukio Li.
Michael Gifford (Secret of Bay 5B) killed by Edward Manley.
Unknown Woman (The Wench is Dead)
ACCIDENT
(7) ‘Service of all the Dead’ (slip from church roof): ‘Last Bus to Woodstock (run over by car): ‘Second Time Around’ (head hits fireplace): ‘Greeks Bearing Gifts’ (fall from a balcony): ‘Death of the Self’ (spike attached to tree): ‘The Daughters of Cain’ (fall from window): ‘Death is now my Neighbour’ (falling down stairs).
Harry Josephs (Service of all the Dead)
Sylvia Kane (Last Bus to Woodstock)
Charlie Hillian (Second Time Around)
Friday Rees (Greeks Bearing Gifts)
May Lawrence (Death of the Self)
Shelly Cornford (Death is now my Neighbour)
HEART ATTACK
(7)‘The Wolvercote Tongue’: ‘The Infernal Serpent’: ‘Fat Chance’ (combination of pills and wine): ‘Promised Land’ (stroke): ‘Absolute Conviction’ (during a fight): ‘Deadly Slumber’: ‘The Remorseful Day’.
Laura Poindexter (The Wolvercote Tongue
Dr. Julian Dear (The Infernal Serpent)
Victoria Hazlett (Fat Chance)
Lily Marchant (Promised Land)
Lawrence Cryer (Absolute Conviction)
Claire Brewster (Deadly Slumber)
Endeavour Morse (The Remorseful Day)
NATURAL CAUSES
(2) ‘Settling of the Sun’: ‘The Wench is Dead’.
Rev. Robson (Settling of the Sun)
Patient next to Morse’s bed (The Wench is Dead)
CAR CRASH
(4) ‘Ghost in the Machine’: ‘Dead on Time’ (two people): ‘Cherubim and Seraphim’.
Roger Meadows (Ghost in the Machine) Died while driving his own car.
Henrietta & Paul Fallon (Dead on Time) died while being chased by Peter Rhodes.
Dr. Desmond Collier (Cherubim & Seraphim) being chased by police.
SHOT
(13) ‘The Last Enemy’ (twice): ‘The Secret of Bay 5b’: ‘Promised Land (twice): ‘Happy Families’: ‘Day of the Devil’: ‘Twilight of the Gods’: ‘Way Through the Woods’ (three, once with gun and twice by shotgun): ‘Death is now my Neighbour’ (twice).
Balarat (The Last Enemy) killed by Arthur Drysdale.
Sir Alexander Reece (The Last Enemy) killed by Arthur Dysdale.
George Henderson (Secret of Bay 5B) killed by Edward Manley. (Gun went off during a struggle).
Con O’Neill (Promised Land) shot by police marksman.
Sgt Scott Humphries (Promised Land) killed by Paul Matthews.
James Balcome (Happy Families) killed by Margaret Cliff.
John Peter Barrie (Day of the Devil) killed by WPC Nora Curtis.
Neville Grimshaw (The Twilight of the Gods) killed by Williams.
David Michaels (Way Through the Woods) killed by Cathy Michaels (Karen Anderson).
George Daley (Way Through the Woods) killed by Cathy Michaels (Karen Anderson).
Cathy Michaels (Way Through the Woods) gun goes off during a struggle.
Rachel James (Death is now my Neighbour) killed Angela Storrs.
Geoffrey Owens (Death is now my Neighbour) killed by Angela Storrs.
BLUDGEONED
(2) ‘The Last Enemy’ (unknown weapon): ‘The Remorseful Day’ (metal crutch).
Dr David Kerridge (The Last Enemy) killed by Sir Alexander Reece.
Yvonne Harrison (The Remorseful Day) killed by Sandra Harrison.
FIRE
(3) ‘Deceived by Flight’ (3 unknown men in a shop).
Three Unknown Men (Deceived by Flight)
ELECTROCUTION
(1) ‘Deceived by Flight’ (radio wire).
Anthony Donn (Deceived by Flight) killed by Kate Donn.
CANCER
(1) ‘The Infernal Serpent’.
Mrs McGovern (The Infernal Serpent)
DROWNING
(2) ‘Sins of the Fathers’ (in a fermenting vat, twice).
Stephen Radford (Sins of the Father) killed by Victor Preece. Hit over the head then pushed into vat.
Trevor Radford (Sins of the Father) killed by Victor Preece. Hit over the head then pushed into vat.
BROKEN NECK
(2) ‘Greeks Bearing Gifts’ (head wrenched back, twice).
Nicos Capparis (Greeks Bearing Gifts) killed by Friday Rees.
Maria Capparis (Greeks Bearing Gifts) killed by Friday Rees.
AIDS
(1) ‘Promised Land’.
Peter Matthews (Promised Land)
ASPHYXIATION
(1) ‘Deadly Slumber’ (carbon monoxide).
Matthew Brewster (Deadly Slumber) killed by Michael Steppings.
REMOVED FROM LIFE SUPPORT
(1) ‘Deadly Slumber’.
Avril Steppings (Deadly Slumber)
BRAIN TUMOUR
(1) ‘The Daughters of Cain’.
Julia Stevens (The Daughters of Cain)
FALL
(1) ‘The Remorseful Day’ (ladder knocked away from victim).
John Barron (The Remorseful Day) killed by Simon Harrison.
UNCLEAR
(10) (1) Lionel Pawlin’s death in ‘Service of all the Dead’ could have been suicide or murder. He jumped or was pushed from the church tower. (2) In the same episode it is unclear as to how Peter Morris and Brenda Josephs were murdered. (3) In the episode ‘Last Seen Wearing’ it is unclear if Cheryl Baines is pushed from the top of the stairs or fell. (4) In the episode ‘Settling of the Sun’ it is unclear as to how the Japanese drug dealer killed Michael Robson. (5) In the episode ‘The Infernal Serpent’ it looks unclear as to how Blanche killed her husband Matthew Copley Barnes but it looks like she used a heavy object. (6) How Desmond McNutt is killed isn’t made clear in the episode, ‘Masonic Mysteries’. (7) John Mitchell beaten by Dawson but unclear as to ‘beaten by what’. Probably fists. (8) In ‘Who Killed Harry Field’ how Harry was killed is unknown. (9) How Steven Ford is murdered in ‘Happy Families’ isn’t clear but a stonemason’s tool is found alongside his body.
Lional Pawlin (Service of all the Dead)
Paul Morris (Service of all the Dead)
Brenda Josephs (Service of all the Dead)
Cheryl Baines (Last Seen Wearing)
Michael Dobson (Settling of the Sun)
Matthew Copley Barnes (The Infernal Serpent)
Desmond McNutt (Masonic Mysteries)
John Mitchell (Second Time Around)
Harry Field (Who Killed Harry Field?)
Steven Ford (Happy Families)
Well I hope you all enjoy this new post. I never thought that the Morse series contained over 100 deaths.
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