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Shows Like Endeavour

Endeavour's cerebral young detective and slow-building partnership with DI Fred Thursday kept Morse fans devoted across nine series. Here are the British detective dramas worth watching next, and where to stream each one in the US.

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The Short Answer

  1. Grantchester — a vicar-and-detective partnership with the same warm mentor dynamic as Morse and Thursday. (PBS Masterpiece)
  2. Foyle's War — a quietly moral detective on the WWII home front, with the same measured, character-first pacing. (Acorn TV)
  3. George Gently — a 1960s Northeast England detective and his brash young sergeant, the closest match to Morse and Thursday's dynamic. (Acorn TV)
  4. Father Brown — a gentle, unassuming investigator solving period-set murders, lighter in tone. (BritBox)
  5. Miss Scarlet — Victorian London's first female detective, trading Morse's melancholy for wit and romance. (PBS Masterpiece)
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Grantchester

Grantchester

2014–present  ·  ITV  ·  PBS Masterpiece

A Cambridge vicar and his police detective best friend investigate murders together — the same warm, unlikely-partnership dynamic that anchors Morse and Thursday's relationship in Endeavour.

PBS Masterpiece
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Foyle's War

Foyle's War

2002–2015  ·  ITV  ·  Acorn TV

A quietly moral detective investigating crime on England's WWII home front — commissioned by ITV specifically to fill the gap Inspector Morse left, and it shares Endeavour's same measured, character-first pacing.

Acorn TV
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George Gently

George Gently

2007–2017  ·  BBC  ·  Acorn TV

An incorruptible 1960s detective and his brash young sergeant work cases across Northeast England — the closest match here to Morse and Thursday's mentor-and-protégé structure, right down to the era.

Acorn TV
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Father Brown

Father Brown

2013–present  ·  BBC  ·  BritBox

A mild-mannered Cotswolds priest unmasks murderers with quiet, unshowy intuition — a gentler, more comedic take on the period detective formula than Endeavour, but built from similar instinct-over-force DNA.

BritBox
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Miss Scarlet

Miss Scarlet

2020–2026  ·  PBS Masterpiece

Victorian London's first female private detective takes on cases Scotland Yard won't — trading Morse's melancholy for wit and romance, but sharing the same handsomely mounted period-mystery pedigree.

PBS Masterpiece
At a Glance
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