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Academic is a fictional character portrayed by Colin Dexter in the TV series Lewis.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Reputation (season 1), they were 75 years old.
They appear in 14 episodes out of a total of 41 aired
Academic is also portrayed by Carol Cummings.

Academic

by Colin Dexter

character

Episodes14

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    Reputation
    episode S1.E0 july 2006
    DI Robert Lewis teams up with DS James Hathaway to look into the murder of an Oxford mathematics student.
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    Whom the Gods Would Destroy
    episode S1.E1 june 2008
    A middle-aged Oxford graduate is found murdered. The investigation implicates a senior university figure and leads to a long-hidden secret.
  • 7.8
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    Expiation
    episode S1.E3 july 2008
    When an Oxford housewife is found hanged in her home, Lewis and Hathaway unearth a far darker murder case than the initial suicide verdict suggests.
  • 7.8
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    Life Born of Fire
    episode S2.E3 march 2008
    The suicide of Hathaway's old friend tests his relationship with Lewis as he must come to terms with ambivalence about his own sexual past.
  • 7.5
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    The Great and the Good
    episode S2.E4 march 2008
    Lewis and Hathaway become involved in the drugging and rape of a schoolgirl and discover that it is connected to several bizarre murders.
  • 7.8
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    Allegory of Love
    episode S3.E1 march 2009
    The fabulously successful Oxford-based fantasy novelist seems to Lewis to be the key to solving the bizarre murder of a beautiful woman with a mirror.
  • 7.8
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    The Point of Vanishing
    episode S3.E3 april 2009
    A former religious fanatic who deliberately tried to kill an outspoken atheist in a car crash but only succeeded in crippling his daughter is murdered.
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    Dark Matter
    episode S4.E2 september 2010
    An Oxford professor, also an amateur astronomer and recently renewed churchgoer, is found dead in the school observatory under suspicious circumstances.
  • 7.9
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    The Mind Has Mountains
    episode S5.E3 september 2011
    The ethics of a questionable drug on the Oxford campus of anti-depressants calls into account the questionable judgment of a psychiatry professor.
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    The Soul of Genius
    episode S6.E1 june 2012
    A scholar obsessed with Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark" is found buried in the botanical gardens frequented by the author during his life.
  • 8.1
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    Generation of Vipers
    episode S6.E2 july 2012
    When it becomes widely known that a best-selling feminist author and lecturer has joined an Internet dating site, she apparently commits suicide.
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    Fearful Symmetry
    episode S6.E3 july 2012
    After a pretty graduate student moonlighting as a baby sitter is found bound on a bed and smothered, it is found that she posed for provocative bondage photos.
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    Magnum Opus: Part 2
    episode S9.E4 october 2015
    The team must uncover the guilty secret their victims share in order to learn the identity of not just the killer but the potential victim too.
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    What Lies Tangled: Part 2
    episode S9.E6 november 2015
    With his six-month trip to New Zealand with Hobson on the horizon, Lewis is in a race against time to save both his career and relationship.