The WORST episodes of Grantchester
Every episode of Grantchester ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Grantchester!
Set against the backdrop of the real hamlet of Grantchester, the drama focuses upon the life of Sidney Chambers, a charismatic, charming clergyman who turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances.
#1 - Episode 2
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/18/2022
Lester Carmichael, part of the husband-and-wife team who own the Carmichael's cleaning goods brand, is found dead with a rather unusual neck wound. Will and Geordie's investigation leads them to look into Lester's private life, which, they discover, is much less spotless than the carefully curated image he and his wife Melanie like to present to the public. Robson Green stars
#2 - Episode 6
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/15/2024
Will ends up battered and bruised in the middle of nowhere and is taken in by a local copper - Geordie is called to collect him, but they must then unravel a case.
#3 - Episode 5
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/8/2024
Geordie is placed on desk duty as Elliot contrives to force him to resign, Larry struggles with a murder case and enlists help, and something is very wrong with Will.
#4 - Episode 4
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/1/2024
Leonard is devastated and comes under pressure when an Italian immigrant and halfway house resident who confessed suicidal thoughts to a troubled Will is found dead.
#5 - Episode 3
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/2024
A student protest at a university garden party turns dark when a valuable painting is stolen and a college porter is found dead, and Cathy and Mrs C worry for Will.
#6 - Episode 2
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/2024
Will is devastated to be the cause of a fatal bike accident, but Geordie rushes to exonerate his friend in the aftermath when Will is accused of manslaughter.
#8 - Episode 5
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/8/2022
A murder at a local old folks' home sees Will and Geordie given the run around when they try to track down two of its elderly residents. Clem Preston, a mischievous raconteur with a tall tale for every occasion, and fun-loving Ida Merryman, have gone missing and are suspected of involvement in the crime. Are they guilty or are the duo leading the police on a wild goose chase - and if so - why?
#9 - Episode 4
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/1/2022
A member of Will's own congregation is found murdered just before a church fundraising event. It becomes clear that the victim, Neil Hughes, was not quite the upstanding member of the community Will believed him to have been. And secrets emerge that make Will question how well he really knows any of his parishioners.
#10 - Episode 1
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2025
Carson's Circus has rolled into town, but its illusions and stunts are soon disrupted when one of its performers is found dead after being shot with a crossbow.
#11 - Episode 1
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/11/2022
The summer of 1959 finds the wedding season in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. Among the Reverend Will Davenport's many brides-to-be is Adele Fitzgerald, who lives on the once-splendid, but now declining Fitzgerald Estate with her green-fingered spinster sister Maude. The body of a dead man is found in the grounds and is quickly identified as the sisters' errant brother Lord Edmund Fitzgerald, who has been living an itinerant life travelling the world since the war. Will and DI Geordie Keating find themselves at odds with Geordie's new boss DCI Elliot Wallace and DC Larry Peters in viewing the death as a murder. As Will and Geordie investigate the Fitzgerald family history, they find themselves looking into Edmund's own romantic past.
#12 - Episode 8
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/22/2021
When a successful music producer is murdered, Geordie finds himself implicated in the investigation, and forced to consider whether his army buddy Johnny could be the killer.
#13 - Episode 7
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/15/2021
Leonard goes to Will and Geordie to ask for their help when someone he knows is suddenly accused of murder.
#14 - Episode 6
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/8/2021
When the leader of a student group falls to her death during a protest, Will and Geordie are drawn into campus politics. The Bishop introduces a new face at the vicarage.
#15 - Episode 5
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/1/2021
As the day of Leonard's trial dawns, Will and Geordie are called upon to investigate an audacious robbery from a bank security van in Cambridge, which has had tragic repercussions.
#16 - Episode 4
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/24/2021
When an American airman dies in the police station, a quiet late shift turns into a challenging night for Will and Geordie. Leonard and Daniel reassess their relationship.
#17 - Episode 3
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/2021
Will and Geordie are drawn into local politics when the death of a councilor prompts a parish election. An allegation against Leonard rocks life at the vicarage to its core.
#18 - Episode 2
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/10/2021
Will and Geordie negotiate a complex family dispute that may be connected to the murder of the head of a local adoption agency. Meanwhile, a sinister letter arrives for Leonard.
#20 - Episode 3
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2025
Geordie and new vicar Alphy Kottaram get off on the wrong foot but soon find themselves teaming up to investigate the murder of a local landowner.
#21 - Episode 4
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2025
Alphy is invited to a party at a country manor where he hopes to raise funds for the ailing church, but the evening's frivolities are cut short when a body is found.
#22 - Episode 5
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2025
A murder at Esme's office sends shockwaves through the Keating family, and Alphy's meeting with the Bishop about his work on repairing the church doesn't go well.
#23 - Episode 6
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2025
Alphy and Geordie soon realise that there is more to the discovery of a professor of archaeology who has brutally murdered at a dig site outside Grantchester.
#24 - Episode 7
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/19/2025
Alphy and Geordie race to solve the disappearance of a young woman and a journalist's murder, and Leonard grows concerned over Sam's increasing influence over Daniel.
#25 - Episode 8
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/26/2025
Geordie and Larry are confronted by a shocking and terrifying revelation when they investigate the mysterious death of a reclusive man on the streets of Cambridge.