The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy takes its title from Housman's poem " Reveille ", and a line from Housman's poem XVI " How Clear, How Lovely Bright ", was used for the title of the last Inspector Morse book The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter.

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Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.

One of her theatre roles was in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw at the Royal Court Theatre, and her many television appearances included a role in Inspector Morse ( 1990 ).

The character Detective Inspector Robert " Robbie " Lewis ( formerly Detective Sergeant ) in the long-running ITV series Inspector Morse is a self-described Geordie – although not a " professional " one.

* Sir Julius Hanbury, The Ghost in the Machine, Inspector Morse

* Diogenes Small, fictional character created by Colin Dexter in the < em > Inspector Morse </ em > series of books

* The building is also seen in the Inspector Morse and Inspector Lewis television series, set in Oxford.

The Bodleian is used as background scenery in Dorothy L. Sayers Gaudy Night, features in Michael White's Equinox, and is one of the libraries consulted by Christine Greenaway ( one of Bodley's librarians ) in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novel The Wench is Dead.

The Bodleian also featured in the Inspector Morse televised spin off Lewis, in the episode " And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea ", where a murder takes place in the basement.

However, examples of successful such pairings include Inspector Morse and his sidekick DS Robbie Lewis, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick Archie Goodwin, Hiro Nakamura and his sidekick Ando Masahashi, and Miles Vorkosigan and his sidekick cousin Ivan Vorpatril.

* Brasenose College is featured as Lonsdale College in the Inspector Morse novels and television adaptations.

In the final Morse episode, " The Remorseful Day ", Inspector Morse collapses from a heart attack in the front quadrangle as Fauré's In Paradisum is being sung in chapel.

It has also been the setting for three episodes of Inspector Morse.

New College was used as a filming location for the 1991 Inspector Morse episode " Fat Chance " in which it doubled as the fictitious " St Saviour's College.

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It has been said that he bore a striking resemblance to John Thaw, who was the star of Inspector Morse, which, perhaps coincidentally, was a television series about a detective in the Thames Valley Police Force ( the modern-day successor to Buckinghamshire Constabulary ).

It has also featured in several UK television series including Spooks, Silent Witness and Inspector Morse.

Since 1990, he has appeared in Lovejoy, Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders ( the episode " Death's Shadow "), Doctors, New Tricks, Kingdom, and If You See God, Tell Him.

The BBC TV adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Cranford was partly filmed at West Wycombe Park, along with TV series Inspector Morse.

John Madden, the Hollywood director, known for the Academy-award-winning Shakespeare In Love and television series such as Inspector Morse and Prime Suspect also studied at Sidney Sussex.

Leslie Charteris features Detective Inspector ( later DCI ) Claud Eustace Teal of Scotland Yard in several of his Saint novels, a character who reappeared in various dramatic incarnations of the series, notably on television by Ivor Dean.

Fabian of the Yard was a television series filmed and transmitted by the BBC between 1954 and 1956, based upon the career of the by then retired Detective Inspector Robert Fabian.

Actor Patrick Malahide, who amongst other roles, played Inspector Chisholm in the popular television series Minder was also another Polruan resident.

Murder Must Advertise was adapted for television in 1973 as a mini-series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Mark Eden as Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Bridget Armstrong as Dian de Momerie, Peter Bowles as Major Milligan, and Paul Darrow as Mr. Tallboy.

In 2009 she portrayed a rock star, believed to be dead for 35 years, but more predominantly, her twin, in the " Counter Culture Blues " episode of the British television mystery series Lewis ( known in the U. S. as Inspector Lewis ).

Sergeant Velie, Inspector Queen's assistant, was a cast regular in this series ; he had appeared in the novels and the radio series, but had not been seen regularly in any of the previous television versions.

It mixes highbrow programming along with popular non-English language television series broadcast in their original language, such as Inspector Rex, Rex in Rome, Don Matteo.

In 1999 he appeared as the outgoing head teacher in the television series Hope and Glory, and had the recurring role of Inspector Christmas in several episodes of the 1999 series of Diana Rigg's Mrs Bradley Mysteries.

Inspector Gadget is an animated television series that revolves around the adventures of a clumsy, simple-witted cyborg detective named Inspector Gadget – a human being with various bionic gadgets built into his body.

Like many animated television series, Inspector Gadget contains a few running gags – events that occur in almost every episode.

Adams was the voice of the title character in Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales ( 1963 – 1966 ), but he was more famous as the voice of Inspector Gadget in the initial run of that television series ( 1983 – 1986 ) and the Christmas special, as well as in later reprises ; he even voiced himself in animated form for a guest shot in an episode of Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies, " The Exterminator ," which first aired on CBS October 6, 1973.

The production of the Inspector Wexford Mysteries ( 1987-1992, and 1993-1997 for Meridian ), television adaptations of Ruth Rendell's novels, proved to be a success with over fifteen programmes being made over a ten-year period.

The Pink Panther theatrical series of cartoons became the basis of a Saturday morning television series, The Pink Panther Show, which also included theatrical cartoons of The Inspector and eventually The Ant and the Aardvark, Roland and Rattfink, and The Texas Toads ( Tijuana Toads ).

In the late 1970s, he starred as Inspector Roderick Alleyn in four adaptations of the mystery novels of Ngaio Marsh with New Zealand settings, in a production for New Zealand television.

From 1988 to 2000, he played Inspector Reg Wexford in numerous television adaptations of mysteries by Ruth Rendell and this is probably the role for which he became best known.

In addition to animated ( and occasionally live-action ) television shows such as Ulysses 31 ( 1981 ), Inspector Gadget ( 1983 – 1986 ), The Littles ( 1983 ), The Real Ghostbusters ( 1986 – 1991 ), Captain Planet and the Planeteers ( 1990-1993 ), and the first two seasons of the English adaptation of Sailor Moon ( 1995 – 1998 ), DIC produced live-action feature films while under Disney, including 1998's Meet the Deedles and 1999's Inspector Gadget.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

In the 1950s George Reeves series, Clark Kent is portrayed as a cerebral character who is the crime reporter for the Daily Planet and who as Kent uses his intelligence and powers of deduction to solve crimes ( often before Inspector Henderson does ) before catching the villain as Superman.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

* M. A. D., a fictional evil organization led by Dr. Claw from the cartoon series Inspector Gadget

Edwards is best known for directing most of the comedy film series The Pink Panther, and all of the entries starring Peter Sellers as the inept Inspector Clouseau.

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau () ( formerly Inspector ) is a fictional character in Blake Edwards ' The Pink Panther series.

He is also the inspiration of The Inspector, the main character in a series of short animated cartoons inspired by the titles of the feature films.

As such, he is even promoted to Chief Inspector over the course of the series, and is regarded by many other characters who presumably have not met him as France ’ s greatest detective ; those characters he actually encounters, nevertheless, are quick to realise his incompetence and limitations.

The film's title credits, animated by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, feature their Inspector character from the series of short cartoons under that name.

A series of failed operations after that point, particularly the Battle of the Barents Sea — combined with the outstanding success of the U-boat fleet under the command of Karl Dönitz — led to his eventual demotion to the rank of Admiral Inspector of the Kriegsmarine in January 1943.

The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring a bumbling French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau.

The character would be featured in the opening of every film in the movie series except A Shot in the Dark and Inspector Clouseau.

In 1992, fed up with the lack of investment at the BBC, he signed a golden-handcuffs deal at ITV to star as Detective Inspector Jack Frost in the long-running TV series A Touch of Frost ( Yorkshire Television / ITV ).

In most episodes, he works as the Nuclear Safety Inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position he has held since " Homer's Odyssey ", the third episode of the series.

Maurice Denham played Chief Inspector Maigret in a series of half-hour dramatizations of the novels on BBC Radio 4 from 1992 to 2002, with Michael Gough playing Georges Simenon.

Most characters in the series, from the dominatrix schoolmistress Rosa Coote to minor characters such as Inspector Dick Donovan, are either an established character from an existing work of fiction or an ancestor of the same, to the extent that individuals depicted in crowd scenes in Volume I have been said ( both by Moore, and in annotations by Jess Nevins ) to be visually designed as the ancestors of the cast of EastEnders.