Storyline
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.
Episodes
Series 1
The series begins in May 1940, a time when local Germans are being interned, the bombing of England has commenced, and anti-German feelings are running high. Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle's request for a service transfer is again denied, and he returns to local police work in Hastings. First broadcast in 2002 and covers the Spring/Summer of 1940.
The German Woman
Oct 27, 2002
The German wife of a rich and influential aristocrat exempted from wartime internment is found decapitated in the midst of anti-German feeling.
The White Feather
Nov 03, 2002
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.
A Lesson in Murder
Nov 10, 2002
Foyle investigates the suicide of a pacifist and death threats to the judge who ruled against his conscientious objector status.
Eagle Day
Nov 17, 2002
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.
Series 2
It's Autumn, 1940, and DCS Foyle is once again thrust into the goings on around Hastings and beyond, investigating murder and other crimes committed during this time of war.
Fifty Ships
Nov 16, 2003
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.
Among the Few
Nov 23, 2003
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.
War Games
Nov 30, 2003
When a British food corporation signs a secret agreement with the Nazis to provide essential food services to the enemy during wartime, murders result.
The Funk Hole
Dec 07, 2003
Foyle's investigation of the death of a young black marketeer and stolen food is interrupted by his suspension on charges of sedition.
Series 3
Set in Spring of 1941, once again we find ourselves in the midsts of mayhem and madness, as Foyle must determine the right from wrong in his home town. Even the war cannot prevent him from uncovering the truth behind organized crime, deserters and sabotage. First aired in 2004.
The French Drop
Oct 24, 2004
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.
Enemy Fire
Oct 31, 2004
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.
They Fought in the Fields
Nov 07, 2004
April 1941: Foyle questions three Land Army girls about a murder that occurs on a Hastings farm.
A War of Nerves
Nov 14, 2004
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.
Series 4
No overview available for this season.
Invasion
Jan 15, 2006
American troops arrive in Britain and the Corps of Engineers building an airstrip on a Hastings farm is met with resentment.
Bad Blood
Jan 22, 2006
August 1942. Foyle investigates the a mysterious disease affecting local farm animals and looks into the arrest of a pacifist accused of stabbing a war hero.
Series 5
No overview available for this season.
Bleak Midwinter
Feb 11, 2007
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.
Casualties of War
Apr 15, 2007
Foyle has his hands full dealing with illegal gambling, sabotage, and his needy goddaughter who shows up on his doorstep with her traumatized son.
Series 6
Covering the long year from April 1944 to May 1945, where the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaches, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways.
Plan of Attack
Jan 06, 2008
April 1944. Milner is unhappy with his new DCS and has asked for a transfer, but after he is murdered, Foyle comes out of retirement to replace him.
Broken Souls
Apr 13, 2008
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.
All Clear
Apr 20, 2008
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.
Series 7
We find Foyle in the Summer of 1945, In the immediate aftermath of World War II. Our Police detective now finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases of a different sort, involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows.
The Russian House
Apr 11, 2010
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.
Killing Time
Apr 18, 2010
July 1945. Sam moves in with Adam Wainwright to help run his guest house though, due to his shyness, they are not a couple. One of the tenants, Mandy Dean, is having a tough time, raising a baby fathered by black G.I. Gabe Kelly. Her old boyfriend Tommy Duggan is devastated when he returns and makes the discovery.
The Hide
Apr 25, 2010
August 1945. DCS Foyle is replaced and is free at last - he's resigned his position and planning to travel to the United States for an extended tour. Before departing however, he's asked to look into the case of James Devereaux, a young man who joined the Nazi British Free Corps during the war.
Series 8
World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in the height of the 1946 London Summer. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new-but no less deadly-threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
The Eternity Ring
Mar 24, 2013
Foyle is now working in a different new role working for British Secret Intelligence. As the iron curtain falls across Europe, MI5 believe that British atomic research has been infiltrated, and ask Foyle to investigate whether a Russian spy network could be at work in London.
The Cage
Mar 31, 2013
Foyle investigates the death of a Russian and it ends up leading to a mysterious military facility run by a Colonel with an impeccable war record.
Sunflower
Apr 07, 2013
Foyle finds himself being drawn into the strange murder of an ex-Nazi defector and leading expert on Soviet intelligence who had been working for MI5. Sam’s husband, Adam, is pre-occupied with his new political jobleaving her concerned that she’ll be able to share some huge news with him.
Series 9
The acclaimed detective series returns with more mysteries set in the uncertain days at the beginning of the Cold War. In the Autumn of 1946, former DCS Christopher Foyle now employs his unerring investigative skills in London on behalf of MI5, assisted by his ever-faithful driver, Sam Wainwright.
High Castle
Jan 04, 2015
Foyle, now working for British Intelligence, is drawn into the world of corrupt Nazi businessmen when a London university professor is found murdered.
Trespass
Jan 11, 2015
Tasked with ensuring security at a high level Palestinian conference, with signs that a plot to bomb the conference maybe under way, Foyle faces a race against time to uncover not only the truth, but where the truth lies. Meanwhile Sam is determined to help a young boy in Adam’s constituency when she realises his life may be in danger because he cannot afford hospital care.
Elise
Jan 18, 2015
When his colleague Hilda Pierce is nearly killed in an attempted assassination, Foyle must re-examine her top secret role during the war to find out if there was a traitor at the heart of the Special Operations Executive.
Series Info
Status
Ended
Seasons
9
Episodes
28
Language
en
Networks
