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''Lewis'' (2006-) is a [[Spin-Off]] series of ''[[Inspector Morse]]''. The series centers around Robert "Robbie" Lewis (played by Kevin Whately), who, in a five year gap after the events of ''[[Inspector Morse]]'', has lost his wife in a hit and run accident and, thanks to his promotion from Sergeant to Inspector, once again finds himself solving murders in Oxford.
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* [[Casting Gag]]: [[QI|Alan Davies]] as a quizmaster in "Your Sudden Death Question".
* [[Character Title]]
* [[Connect the Deaths]]: Usually. (See [[Never One Murder]].)
* [[The Coroner]]: Dr. Hobson.
* [[Couldn't Find a Pen]]: Written in the victim's blood, in "Allegory of Love".
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* [[Never One Murder]]: Happens so often that it is almost [[Once an Episode]].
* [[Never Suicide]]
* [[New Media Are Evil]]: In "Generation of Vipers", two websites feature prominently in the plot; neither appears to advantage.
* [[The New Rock and Roll]]: For some reason, the fantasy genre in "Allegory of Love".
* [[Old Cop, Young Cop]]: Lewis and Hathaway, just as [[Master Apprentice Chain|Lewis used to be the "young cop"]] to [[Inspector Morse|Morse's "old cop"]].
* [[Oop North]]: ''Old School Ties'' doesn't take place Oop North, but we get an earful from the author Lewis is guarding.
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** To [[Brideshead Revisited]]: Hathaway's return to the Mortmaignes' stately pile.
** To [[Gormenghast]]: The young heir of the property is called Titus.
** To [[Clue (game)|Clue]]: The victim's name is Dr Black, and an attractive young female suspect is called Scarlett. Other characters' names are also references; all the Cluedo characters except Mrs Peacock get some kind of mention.
** "Wild Justice" is filled with allusions to Jacobean revenge tragedies: a minor supporting character is named Karen Middleton- Thomas Middleton was a Jacobean playwright known best for his work in that genre.
* [[Sinister Minister]]
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* [[Take That]]: "Allegory of Love" delivers multiple smackdowns to the cult of J. R. R. Tolkien and swords-and-sorcery fantasy novels.
* [[Transsexualism]]: Played for tragedy in {{spoiler|"Born of Fire". Zoe Kenneth was originally Feardocha Phelan, who was Will's boyfriend. After the [[Cure Your Gays]] group they were both attending causes Will to start to hate their relationship, Feardocha jets off to Brazil to become Zoe so that Will could finally love a girl. Sadly it didn't work out, and Will's [[Driven to Suicide|suicide]] becomes her [[Despair Event Horizon]] which turns her into a [[Serial Killer]].}}
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: [[Inspector Morse|Morse's]] [[Cool Car|Jaguar Mark 2.]] He left to Lewis in his will but it has never been seen or discussed on the show.
** [[Fridge Logic|Given the five-year gap]] between [[Inspector Morse]] and [[Lewis]], at least part of which Lewis spent working overseas, it's possible the car was sold when he thought he wasn't coming back.
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: the pilot is essentially ''[[Hamlet]]''; "Old, Unhappy, Far-Off Things" is ''[[Lord Peter Wimsey|Gaudy Night]]''.
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