The essential episodes of Foyle's War
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Foyle's War — each pick states its reason.
- 01
The German wife of a rich and influential aristocrat exempted from wartime internment is found decapitated in the midst of anti-German feeling.
- 02
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.
- 03
Foyle investigates the suicide of a pacifist and death threats to the judge who ruled against his conscientious objector status.
- 04
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.
- 05
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.
- 06
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.
- 07
When a British food corporation signs a secret agreement with the Nazis to provide essential food services to the enemy during wartime, murders result.
- 08
Foyle's investigation of the death of a young black marketeer and stolen food is interrupted by his suspension on charges of sedition.
- 09
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.
- 10
Foyle investigates the a mysterious disease affecting local farm animals and looks into the arrest of a pacifist accused of stabbing a war hero.
- 11
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.
- 12
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.
- 13
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.
- 14
The disappearance of a Foreign Office official appears to explain the deaths of a number of Russian agents working for British Intelligence.
- 15
When his colleague Hilda Pierce is nearly killed in an attempted assassination, Foyle must re-examine her top-secret role.
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