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A group of people gather at an Oxford college to compete in a quiz contest for a large prize. One of them, an annoying, know-it-all womaniser is murdered. Due to his personality quite a few people would loathe him, but murder him? Lewis and Hathaway investigate.

One of the better Lewis episodes. A classical whodunnit in the Poirot mould as all the possible suspects are locked in a location. Now Lewis and Hathaway just have to figure out who did it.

Better too because the plot and evidence builds up to the revelation rather than like many Lewis episodes where revelation of the guilty party comes out of the blue as a wild twist in the last 10 minutes.

Some interesting, engaging sub-plots too. Good to see that at last there might be some progress on the Lewis-Dr Hobson relationship. That's been due for some time now.

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode, it's perhaps one of my favourite episodes of Lewis, several reasons, the originality of the script, I can't think of many shows set to a Quiz show, I love the depth of the mystery, it's definitely one that gets the grey matter working, I also loved the wonderful cast. It took a second watch for me to fully understand what was going on, the killer's motives etc, there were plenty of red herrings to mull over.

Great to see Alan Davies here as a suspect, and host, as opposed to a Gameshow Guest or Detective, cast against type. I loved the duo of Nicholas Farrell and Timothy West, there truly was a lot of talent here. The side story of Hathaway's guitar was also a nice touch.

Innocent kept up the theme of dressing as though she were off to an evening Soiree.

Ticks all the boxes, 9/10.

Add a couple corpses to the famous campus. In this one a group of bright people, mostly associated in some way with the College, have entered a competition, a quiz contest. A curly haired moderator has promised a 5000 pound prize to the winner. I am quite good at trivia and quizzes, but the questions are about as obtuse as any I've ever encountered. The odd mixture of people seem to know the answers. One in particular knows everything. He doesn't even seem to be trying. Well, it isn't long before he is found dead, but the show goes on. We have a classic whodunnit, with a bevy of suspects confined to a relatively small space. It isn't long before a second one of theirs is strangled. This is a decent episode because we get to knew each participant pretty well. The first victim seemed to have a serious connection to the remaining cast and it is Lewis and Hathaway's jobs to unravel their duplicity. There is also a subplot that relates to Hathaway's classic guitar being stolen from his car. And, the Inspector starts a little romantic encounter with the medical examiner.

Not a full review, just a correction to an earlier review.

Ava Taylor and Ethan Croft's team is called Nuts, from the National Union of Teachers (NUT), and the town they work in is Reading, not Redding (but it is pronounced redding!)

Also, it's Old Contemptibles, not contemptables.

This is probably one of my favorite episodes. It's Full of very familiar actors, Inspector Sullivan, Alastair MacKenzie of Father Brown and Alan Davies of Jonathan Creek for example. Superintendent Innocent is a bit playful while serious funny. It's great to have an episode that's not centered on some crazy religious fanatical bunch of priests or professors. Sargent Hathaway is keen on so called helping with Inspector Lewis's advancing relationship with Dr Hobson. At least they killed off a man before killing off the pretty girls. It's usually pretty girls eighty percent of the time I believe. Enjoy rewatching it.