History Series / Endeavour

* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/RogerAllam (DCI Thursday) and Creator/AntonLesser (Superintendent Bright) played separate antagonists in the episode "Eagle Day" of ''Series/FoylesWar''.

* CoversAwaysLie: The posters tgat advertised the sixth series showed what appeared to be Morse and Joan Thursday about to kiss, possibly a teaser given that the previous series had ended with him asking her out. Turns out, though, she said no and they never even got close to almost kissing, let alone actually kissing.

* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: In "Fugue", Morse sniffs a teapot he suspects has been poisoned and comments "If that's the stuff chimps drink, then I'm a Chinaman".

* AnonymousPublicPhoneCall: In "Striker", the ''Oxford Mail'' receive a phone call claiming to be from the [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Provisional IRA]] threatening that if Jack Swift (Oxford Wanderers' star Northern Irish forward) plays in the upcoming FA Cup replay, they will shoot him dead. The police trace the phone call, which was ade from the public payphones at the Royal hotel. [[spoiler: It turns out the affair is in fact an elaborate FalseFlagOperation by a Loyalist militia who want Swift dead for raising money for Irish youth groups (unbeknown to him, the IRA had been taking a cut of the money raised, so as far as the Loyalists were concerned he'd been raising money for ''them'')]].

** After Series Seven, no further mention is made of Ludo Talenti, the villain of that series. [[spoiler: Although he was shot by Fred Thursday at the end of that seroes, we never know if he survived or not.]]

* FriendInThePress: [[IntrepidReporter Dorothea Frazil]] is the editor of the Oxford Mail, and a highly dedicated Journalist (having previously reported on the Korean War from pretty much right on the battlefield). Whilst Morse is initially weary about forming close relationships with the press for fear of it being corrupting, the two quickly become friends and she serves as a valuable asset to Morse and Inspector Thursday's investigations. Many times through the series Dorothea's access to the Oxford Mail archives provides essential information to the case and she is likewise very good at digging up information about figures who deliberately attempt to stay off the police's radar. Notably unlike most examples, whilst her paper does report on the events, she never attempts to use this relationship to gain any particular advantage in reporting the stories over her rivals and is not afraid to put herself in the firing line (the most extreme example being in "[[Recap/EndeavourS4E01Game Game]]" when her attempts to catch a SerialKiller who murdered one of her journalists leads to her being abducted by them, [[DamselOutOfDistress only to break free]] and be instrumental to their arrest).

* MenInBlack: The two Special Branch agents in "Quartet" are tall, well-dressed, and never say a word on camera, which makes them all the more sinister. They show up late in the evening while Max is examining the murdered Swiss and West German ''Jeux sans Frontières'' team members, and the next morning, Max says they explained they were taking over the investigation and removed the bodies and the other pieces of evidence. They show up again as [[spoiler:Mullion]] is taken into custody, and one final time along with Millie Bagshot after Morse confronts [[spoiler:Elsie Dozier]] over being a Soviet mole.

As of 2023, nine series have aired. It ended in 2023, with its ninth and final series.

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** "Rocket" features Henry Broom and his children Richard, John, and Harry (deceased)- all [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfPlantagenet Plantagenet kings]], but more specifically it is one of many references in the episode to ''Theatre/TheLionInWinter''. There's also the Broom matriarch returning from "exile" (like Eleanor of Aquitaine); the death of Harry, the favored son and heir, causing a SuccessionCrisis for the family; a proposed merger with the French; and an IKnowYouKnowIKnow line that can be seen as a ShoutOut to Geoffrey's famous one in ''Theatre/TheLionInWinter''. Even the last name is a reference: "Plantagenet" comes from ''planta genista'', the medieval word for the broom flower.