Sir – I always loved to watch Inspector Morse, for no other reason than to try and spot places I knew when I lived there 40 years ago. Boring my partner each time I say “Drank in there” “used to collect insurance premiums from there”.

But ITV’s Endeavour which had a stab at portraying a troubled Detective Inspector Morse as a much younger man, was nowhere near the quality of the Inspector Morse series. What a puny dweeb that insignificant PC Morse was portrayed as? Most PCs when I was younger were at least 5ft 8in tall, this one couldn’t have been more than 5ft 5in.

Incorrect locations for addresses (Morse is sent to Jericho and calls at a property in Oriel Square), a bus seen driving under Hertford College bridge and could never have coped with the bends in that street, men drinking pints, when men mostly drank halves, and nearly all the male cast the same height as the female cast. Unrealistic, not like real life, but then fiction isn’t I suppose!

What puzzles me is why nobody from Blackbird Leys (which never gets a mention) or Rose Hill or Wood Farm ever gets to commit any crimes for Morse to investigate? It’s always those at the university, which doesn’t say much for the effects of higher education.

David Culm, Littleover, Derby