Endeavour S6: Episode Guide by Shaun Evans

[This is an extract from the article "When is series six of Endeavour on TV? Who is in the cast? What will happen?" published by RADIO TIMES, 7 February 2019]

Episode guide
While on set, series lead Shaun Evans gave us a quick guide to each of the stories this year, which take in a variety of settings and characters. Starting with…

Episode 1 – Pylon

“There’s a girl goes missing and it’s repetitive for a case where a girl has gone missing three years before,” Evans said.

“And I think there’s a connection, although nobody else does. When will they learn?”

Episode 2 – Apollo

“The second one’s really fun actually,” Evans said of episode two, which he directed.

“It’s about the Moon Landing in 69, and this group of people in a sort of New Age centre. So it’s got a very particular, not tongue-in-cheek exactly, but very particular sort of humorous attitude to it.”

“Obviously ’69 was the moon landings, so film 2, which is Shaun’s episode, is looking at that, tying into that and what that means for mankind and Endeavour,” producer Deanne Cunningham said.

“It was the first thing I’d directed that I was in,” Evans continued.

“So that brought with it its own challenges, but made it quite economical and efficient as well.”

Episode 3 – Confection

“The third one is at a chocolate factory, where everything looks perfect on the surface but if you dig underneath then it’s all kind of cankerous at its heart,” Evans told us.

“It’s set at Chigton Green, which is this sort of picture perfect village just outside Oxford,” added Cunningham.

“Is it as picture-perfect as it seems, or is there something darker lurking underneath the roses and the bunting?”

Episode 4 -Degüello

“Film four is, I think, a terrific story,” Evans told RadioTimes.com.

“You have the collapse of a building. Within the foundations of a building we found a body which has been there for a year, which has a connection to a body that we find at the beginning of the story. So we know that they’re connected.

“It’s a great way to round it up, I think. And it’s a great way to pay off the characters that we’ve introduced this season, and also bring us all back together as well by the end of it.”