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Foyle's War
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Foyle's War

Sun, Oct 27, 2002
  • Mystery
  • Drama
  • War & Politics
  • Crime
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

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Cast

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  • Michael Kitchen
    Michael Kitchen
    as DCS Foyle
  • Honeysuckle Weeks
    Honeysuckle Weeks
    as Samantha Stewart
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Episodes

9 seasons · 28 episodes

Ended · 28 aired
Season 1
4 episodes · 4 aired
▾
  • E1
    The German Woman
    Aired · Sun, Oct 27, 2002 · 120m

    The German wife of a rich and influential aristocrat exempted from wartime internment is found decapitated in the midst of anti-German feeling.

  • E2
    The White Feather
    Aired · Sun, Nov 3, 2002 · 120m

    With the English army trapped in France and a German invasion imminent, a Nazi sympathizer is murdered during a pro-Facist meeting at a country hotel.

  • E3
    A Lesson in Murder
    Aired · Sun, Nov 10, 2002 · 120m

    Foyle investigates the suicide of a pacifist and death threats to the judge who ruled against his conscientious objector status.

  • E4
    Eagle Day
    Aired · Sun, Nov 17, 2002 · 120m

    Foyle investigates a man found with a knife in his stomach in a bombed out building while son Andrew gets involved in a top secret radar program.

Season 2
4 episodes · 4 aired
▾
  • E1
    Fifty Ships
    Aired · Sun, Nov 16, 2003 · 120m

    After Foyle is a guest at a friend's home at a dinner for an important American diplomat, a suicide victim and German agent both are discovered near the house.

  • E2
    Among the Few
    Aired · Sun, Nov 23, 2003 · 120m

    Sam volunteers to go undercover to discover how rationed gasoline is being stolen from a fuel depot, and Andrew becomes a suspect in a murder case.

  • E3
    War Games
    Aired · Sun, Nov 30, 2003 · 120m

    When a British food corporation signs a secret agreement with the Nazis to provide essential food services to the enemy during wartime, murders result.

  • E4
    The Funk Hole
    Aired · Sun, Dec 7, 2003 · 120m

    Foyle's investigation of the death of a young black marketeer and stolen food is interrupted by his suspension on charges of sedition.

Season 3
4 episodes · 4 aired
▾
  • E1
    The French Drop
    Aired · Sun, Oct 24, 2004 · 120m

    February 1941: Foyle again pursues a position that would allow him to contribute more to the war effort. But a local murder investigation sidetracks this endeavor as Foyle finds himself caught between rival spy organizations.

  • E2
    Enemy Fire
    Aired · Sun, Oct 31, 2004 · 120m

    February 1941: When a local manor house is commandeered for use as a special burn unit for treating injured RAF pilots, Foyle is called in to investigate a series of strange accidents.

  • E3
    They Fought in the Fields
    Aired · Sun, Nov 7, 2004 · 120m

    April 1941: Foyle questions three Land Army girls about a murder that occurs on a Hastings farm.

  • E4
    War of Nerves
    Aired · Sun, Nov 14, 2004 · 120m

    A.C. Rose orders Foyle to delegate his investigation of black marketing ring and personally look into the possibly seditious acts of a Socialist activist.

Season 4
2 episodes · 2 aired
▾
  • E1
    Invasion
    Aired · Sun, Jan 15, 2006 · 120m

    Early 1942. American troops arrive in Britain and the Corps of Engineers building an airstrip on a Hastings farm is met with resentment.

  • E2
    Bad Blood
    Aired · Sun, Jan 22, 2006 · 120m

    Foyle investigates the a mysterious disease affecting local farm animals and looks into the arrest of a pacifist accused of stabbing a war hero.

Season 5
2 episodes · 2 aired
▾
  • E1
    Bleak Midwinter
    Aired · Sun, Feb 11, 2007 · 120m

    The apparently accidental death of a young woman in a munitions factory becomes linked with the murder of Milner's estranged wife as he falls under suspicion.

  • E2
    Casualties of War
    Aired · Sun, Apr 15, 2007 · 120m

    March 1943: Foyle has his hands full dealing with illegal gambling, sabotage, and his needy goddaughter who shows up on his doorstep with her traumatized son.

Season 6
3 episodes · 3 aired
▾
  • E1
    Plan of Attack
    Aired · Sun, Jan 6, 2008 · 120m

    April 1944: Milner is unhappy with his new DCS and has asked for a transfer, but after the DCS is killed, Foyle comes out of retirement to replace him.

  • E2
    Broken Souls
    Aired · Sun, Apr 13, 2008 · 120m

    October 1944: Foyle hones in on two murders: an unpopular psychiatrist in a trauma facility and a low security German POW on work release to a local farm.

  • E3
    All Clear
    Aired · Sun, Apr 20, 2008 · 120m

    May 1945: Foyle joins a municipal committee that's preparing for the now imminent V-E Day celebration but soon finds himself investigating the deaths of two of its members.

Season 7
3 episodes · 3 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Russian House
    Aired · Sun, Apr 11, 2010 · 120m

    It's June 1945 and Detective Chief Superintendent Foyle is still on duty as they are unable to find a replacement for him. He's approached by Brigadier Timothy Wilson, his former commanding officer from his own military service in World War I, who is looking for a Russian POW, Ivan Spiakov, who has escaped and is believed to have been seen in the Hastings area.

  • E2
    Killing Time
    Aired · Sun, Apr 18, 2010 · 120m

    While African American GIs wait for transport home, racial tensions run high at the army base in Hastings, particularly when a black American serviceman becomes romantically involved with a white local woman.

  • E3
    The Hide
    Aired · Sun, Apr 25, 2010 · 120m

    Foyle battles to save a young man accused of high treason from the executioner's noose in a case that will shatter his personal world to the core.

Season 8
3 episodes · 3 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Eternity Ring
    Aired · Sun, Mar 24, 2013 · 120m

    As Foyle returns from a stay in the USA, MI5 agents persuade him to go to their London HQ immediately.

  • E2
    The Cage
    Aired · Sun, Mar 31, 2013 · 120m

    The disappearance of a Foreign Office official appears to explain the deaths of a number of Russian agents working for British Intelligence.

  • E3
    Sunflower
    Aired · Sun, Apr 7, 2013 · 120m

    Foyle is told by the head of MI5 that eminent art historian Professor Van Haren is actually a high-ranking Nazi whose real name is Karl Strasser.

Season 9
3 episodes · 3 aired
▾
  • E1
    High Castle
    Aired · Sun, Jan 4, 2015 · 120m

    Foyle, now working for British Intelligence, is drawn into the world of corrupt Nazi businessmen when London university professor William Knowles is found brutally murdered in a London park.

  • E2
    Trespass
    Aired · Sun, Jan 11, 2015 · 120m

    When a young student is badly assaulted, Foyle wonders if the attack is racially motivated as the young man was the son of a wealthy and high profile Jewish businessman. Sam is determined to help a young boy in Adam's constituency.

  • E3
    Elise
    Aired · Sun, Jan 18, 2015 · 120m

    When his colleague Hilda Pierce is nearly killed in an attempted assassination, Foyle must re-examine her top-secret role.