When Morse is assigned a cold case of a runaway teenager from school, he suspects that the girl's been murdered.When Morse is assigned a cold case of a runaway teenager from school, he suspects that the girl's been murdered.When Morse is assigned a cold case of a runaway teenager from school, he suspects that the girl's been murdered.
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- TriviaThe setting for this episode was changed from Colin Dexter's novel of the same name. In the book, the missing girl (called Valerie Taylor rather than Valerie Craven) is a pupil at a seedy council-estate comprehensive school rather than an expensive private girls' school. Her parents live in a small terrace council house rather than an opulent bungalow in its own grounds. These changes were probably made to increase the appeal of the episode to the overseas market. When later adapted for BBC Radio Four, (with John Shrapnel as "Morse") the story reverted to Colin Dexter 's original story.
- GoofsWhen Miss Baines falls over the edge of the stairs, it is quite clearly a dummy that is dropped.
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Chief Inspector Morse: Have you ever thought about the person who designed the sports skirt? Somebody sat down and drew a fantasy and made it compulsory uniform. I can never watch Wimbledon without thanking that man.
- ConnectionsEdited into Inspector Morse: Rest in Peace (2000)
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Confusing, or just Confounding?
Frankly, I have to admit straight away that I have to watch episodes of Morse more than once to even begin to understand the plot. Last Seen Wearing is no exception. I've seen it twice (with years between viewings) and I still don't understand it. As I say, this is typical of my Morsian experience, but on top of my puzzlement, I have to admit also to being bored by this episode. I don't look for American-style idiocy like car chases in detective stories (I'm an American, by the way), but this episode was far from gripping. My last comment: I may be obtuse and simply unable to follow anything more complicated than Magnum, but I wonder if other viewers feel a certain empty and ephemeral sense of letdown after a dose of Morse and the scripts that he follows. I sense that even John Thaw actually retreats to the pub during each episode out of a sense of confusion even after reading the script before the filming. Does even he understand what's going on?
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- White Horse pub, Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK(Morse and Lewis arrive for a drink just after closing time)
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