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“Fred grew up in the East End of London and also fought in the war. “That scene is just saying, ‘Hello, here I am.’ ” Allam laughs. SHAUN EVANS as Endeavour and ROGER ALLAM as DI Fred Thursday. DCI Thursday also has a dark side that surfaces now and again, especially in the fist episode. I think they saw the workhouse down the road for being £10 overdrawn.īut don’t be foiled. My parents thought that was absolutely awful. In 1975 I came back from university £10 overdrawn. “Then again, back in those days I had a grant and my fees were paid. The only thing I was sure about was that I wanted to be an actor. I was doing something I absolutely loved and it completely expanded my horizons. So he can easily resort to fighting and violence”īut wasn’t 1971, when the first episode it set, a turning point for Allam? “I went to Manchester University the year after 1971. “Fred grew up in the East End of London and fought in the war. All of those kind of things would also have an impact on Thursday’s generation if they could see it today. “Now I look around and if you have economic well-being today you are surrounded by endless stuff. My parents both came from poverty economic backgrounds. I guess that’s always the same between the generations. The need for young people to get away and the anxiety on the part of the parents.” SHAUN EVANS as Endeavour and ROGER ALLAM as DI Fred Thursday.Īnd yet Allam too grew up in the 70s, so did the first episode really resonate with him? “It is a different world today compared to 1971. That’s a thing lots of parents and children can feel. But the big crisis around her leaving home and Fred’s resistance to that seems to be over.

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“there’s something very reassuring about playing a long running TV character”Īs for his fractious relationship with his daughter Joanie, Allam says: “Things have been rocky between them.

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“In the last episode of this series a lot of the feeling that Win has buried about Sam being in the Army comes out. But the big difficulty is that their son Sam is serving in Belfast with the Army, which is dangerous.

Not that things are all plain sailing in Thursday’s world either: “Things are OK between Fred and Win at the beginning of this season. But, as the series progresses and Morse misses days at work it just becomes too much to ignore.” “But Thursday is always defensive of Morse and perhaps tries to put to the back of his mind any concern, anxiety or worry about how he is. Pictured:SHAUN EVANS as Endeavour and ROGER ALLAM as DI Fred Thursday. It was a drinking culture then and Morse has always drunk, ever since they introduced him to the notion in the pilot episode. So how does Thursday react? “I don’t think Thursday realises how bad Morse’s drinking problem is at first. But no-one speaks about it until it is really necessary to do so. He is drinking too much and that starts to affect what he is doing. Violetta died in his arms at the end of the last series, so he is in a very bad away. “Throughout this series Morse is in some crisis. “THROUGHOUT THIS SERIES MORSE IS IN SOME CRISIS” “I think that’s a true, sincerely and honestly felt thing that we make mistakes and we should have a chance to get back on the straight and narrow. Pictured:ROGER ALLAM as DI Fred Thursday. “Then again, Fred made a serious mistake a couple of years ago when he was drawn into corruption and things got very bad with his wife Win. “Morse is in a bad place, Allam concedes.

Picking up in Oxford in February 1971, it’s all change for Thursday and Morse at the start of the new series. “I don’t think Thursday realises how bad Morse’s drinking problem is at first” Not that it’s been plain sailing for him either over the previous seven series, but that’s the delight of Endeavour – the characters develop over time, warts and all, as the drama unfolds around them. Morse has developed a drinking problem, the IRA have started their bombing camping and DCI Thursday, as played by Roger Allam, is holding it all together. Pictured:ROGER ALLAM as DI Fred Thursday.Īs Endeavour returns to our screens on Sunday night, it’s all going on.