Foyle’s War Episodes

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player c slot	Original Air Date	Title	Description
69	2002-10-27	The German Woman	Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle's request for government service is disallowed and he returns to local police work in Hastings where he has assigned the driver Samantha Stewart. It is early in the war, the bombing of England has commenced, feelings are running high, and local aliens are being interred. Foyle asks Paul Milner, an injured ex-serviceman to be his assistant. Investigating the vicious murder of the German wife of the local magistrate, Foyle finds espionage and corruption.
70	2002-11-03	The White Feather	Early in the war, the future looks bleak for England - invasion and defeat seem imminent. Paul Milner meets Guy Spencer, charismatic Nazi sympathizer, politician, and conman. At a local hotel, The White Feather, Spencer leads a meeting of the pro-Hitler Friday Club at which the domineering hotel manageress is shot dead. Foyle and Milner investigate, Milner feeling the conflicts between his allegiances and fears, set against the backdrop of the Allies' retreat from Dunkirk.
71	2002-11-10	A Lesson in Murder	A conscientious objector loses his appeal and is later found dead in his cell. At the house of the judge who sentenced him, a young evacuee is killed by a booby-trap in the summerhouse. Foyle's investigation reveals a relationship between the judge's daughter, Susan, and a local worker, Peter. While guarding the judge, Milner is caught in an apparently compromising position by the judge and forced to leave - another murder follows as Foyle considers the actual purpose of the factory at which Peter works.
72	2002-11-17	Eagle Day	Foyle's son Andrew returns from RAF training to a posting at a local radar station where all is not well. A local lorry driver is found murdered, a gold locket in his hand. Foyle wonders whether artworks transported by the driver are all that they seem, while Andrew's inquiries reveal the reason for poor morale at the radar station and another murder. Against this, Sam Stewart's father tries to take Sam away from the apparently untoward influences of police work.
73	2003-11-16	Fifty Ships	Foyle investigates the apparent suicide of an alcoholic handyman, who has school ties to a visiting American millionaire. Complicating matters, the handyman's son appears connected to a gang of volunteer firefighters secretly thieving from bombed-out houses, and the only eyewitness to the man's death turns out to be a German spy who is condemned to execution. This plot becomes an ongoing question within Foyles War but is resolved at the end of "The Hide."
73	2003-11-23	Among the Few	Foyle uncovers a black market gasoline racket. Two of the girls working at the local depot are seeing Andrew and his best friend from the unit. Sam goes undercover at the depot, but when one of the girls is found murdered, Andrew becomes a suspect.
75	2003-11-30	War Games	A young secretary falls to her death from the high-rise London headquarters of a food manufacturing company, and a young member of the home-guard is shot dead during exercises. The unreported burglary of the country house belonging to Sir Reginald Walker, the company's owner, piques Foyle's curiosity. The situation is muddied by the involvement of a barrister friend of Foyle's, Stephen Beck (a native of Germany secretly working for British intelligence), and an old colleague, Jack Devlin. With evidence collected by local children as salvage, Foyle confronts Walker and his son, uncovering trading with the enemy and the Walker's links to Nazism.
76	2003-12-07	The Funk Hole	A robbery of a food warehouse leads the police to question the residents of a local "guest house." At the same time, Foyle is temporarily suspended from duty when he is reported to have made seditious remarks during an air raid in London.
77	2004-10-24	The French Drop	Wanting to do more to help the war effort, Foyle pulls strings and is offered a job at Naval Command. Back in Hastings, a body is found but the apparent facts are inconsistent, and strange goings-on are observed at a churchyard. Following the scent to SOE, an undercover espionage-training group, and dodging threats and sabotage, Foyle uncovers the identity of the body and the story behind it. Foyle accepts accusations of mis-investigation from a senior naval officer, losing the naval job but believing he has best aided the war effort.
78	2004-10-31	Enemy Fire	A private house is requisitioned by the RAF as a hospital. However, drugs go missing and acts of vandalism are carried out. Foyle begins an investigation after Group Captain Smythe is nearly killed and an RAF mechanic is murdered. Meanwhile, Andrew goes AWL, suffering from severe stress and exhaustion after his wingmate is badly burned while flying Andrew's Spitfire.
79	2004-11-07	They Fought in the Fields	Three Luftwaffe pilots are captured after an air raid. However, there are irregularities considering the crew of the bomber and the condition of the parachutes. Meanwhile, feeling that she is not doing enough for the war effort, Sam joins land girls working in the fields.
80	2004-11-17	War of Nerves	Seeking to crack down on organised crime, Foyle places Milner undercover in a building business, which leads them to racketeering at a shipyard. When an unexploded bomb lands on the yard, Royal Engineers attempting to dispose of the bomb discover a horde of money, and agree to share it amongst themselves, an act they regret when one of their numbers is abducted and murdered. Foyle must resolve the crime racket and investigate the murder, while keeping supervising the visit to Hastings of a Communist agitator.
81	2006-01-15	Invasion	American "Doughboys" arrive in Hastings, resulting in some hostility from the locals. An old friend of Milner's dies in a house fire, and a barmaid is found dead at the welcoming party for the American soldiers, with one of the Americans as a suspect.
82	2006-01-22	Bad Blood	A biological warfare experiment with Anthrax goes horribly wrong and Sam is asked to marry.
83	2007-02-11	Bleak Midwinter	Foyle returns to investigate the death of Gracie Phillips, a munitions worker. In the course of this investigation, Milner deals with a surprising return of someone from his past. Sam spends the episode longing for a turkey dinner.
84	2007-04-15	Casualties of War	Foyle's god-daughter Lydia and her young son James — traumatised by the bombing of his school — come to stay unexpectedly. Struggling to look after the boy when his mother goes missing, Foyle's life suffers a further complication when the body of a local man is found near a military centre — leading him into the top-secret world of weapons research. In the meantime Milner investigates a crooked gambling ring. However, when Foyle is prevented from bringing the culprits to justice he resigns from the police force.
85	2008-01-06	Plan of Attack	Milner and DCS Meredith (Foyle's replacement) have arrested a racketeer, but this has to take a back-seat when a highly-strung map-maker is found hanged in local woods, after confiding in a local Catholic priest (a German, but apparently anti-Nazi). It looks like suicide but Milner is not so sure. Threatened by the racketeer, Milner is the subject of an attempted assassination, which instead leaves Meredith dead. Foyle is reluctantly called back from retirement to solve both the cases, which he successfully does, and decides to stay in police work until the end of the war
86	2008-04-13	Broken Souls	Foyle meets Josef Novak for a chess game. Novak is a Polish-Jewish psychiatrist at a nearby military mental-health institution where Dr Worth is found murdered. Foyle is called in, having to delegate the finding of a missing East End boy (formerly a child-evacuee in the Hastings area) to Sam. Under suspicion, and hearing radio news of the discovery of the concentration camp to which his wife and daughter have been taken, Novak attempts suicide, but he is saved by Foyle. Meanwhile Fred Dawson, a crippled former POW, arrives back at his farm to find his wife and child being helped in the farm work by Johann, a German POW. Suspecting his wife Rose of an affair with Johann and resenting his easy manner with Fred and Rose's son, the couple argue, and Johann is later found dead after escaping the camp. Foyle finally finds that Novak had attempted to get himself convicted of Worth's murder to save Peter Phelps, a mentally disturbed airman at the institution whom Novak had found by Worth's body with bloodied hands. In fact Worth's murderer was the institution's head, Dr Campbell, whom Worth was blackmailing over Campbell's affair with Phelps' wife. However, Foyle also finds a witness that saw that Novak murdered Johann after hearing him speak German, out of anger at the concentration camps - though subsequently, he heard news that his daughter had survived.
87	2008-04-20	All Clear	With VE Day upon them, Foyle is asked to represent the police on the councils' celebration committee. There he meets up with old friend, Major John Kieffer, who is representing the American forces. When a committee member is killed, however, the celebrations take a back seat, as Foyle sets out to uncover the murderer. Along the way he must delve into secrets that the Allied forces wish to keep hidden.
88	2010-04-11	The Russian House	Keen to step out of Foyle's shadow and prove himself as a detective, the newly-promoted Detective Inspector Milner is called to investigate the death of Sam's new employer, a famous artist. He is disappointed when Foyle, on the trail of an absconded Russian prisoner of war, arrives at the scene. Foyle's investigation leads him to a safe house for members of the Russian Liberation Movement (aka "White Russians"), seeking to avoid repatriation to the USSR. He encounters an international cover up which, if exposed, could bring down the British government.
89	2010-04-18	Killing Time	Foyle investigates a case which is complicated by racial prejudice. Sam and Adam are now running a dilapidated local guest house where Mandy Dean is one of the residents. Disowned by her family, she is a young, vulnerable mother all alone because of the hostility levelled against her and her mixed-race baby. Her ex-boyfriend returns hoping to win her back, but then she is found murdered and the finger of suspicion points to a black GI at the nearby US military base - the father of her child.
90	2010-04-25	The Hide	Foyle finally is allowed to resign and leave Hastings police station to his successor, his tenure as Detective Chief Superintendent over. After his retirement he makes plans to go to America. But before he leaves, he reads in a newspaper about the son of a distinguished local family who will be tried for treason for belonging to the British Free Corps, a unit made of Englishmen fighting for Nazi Germany. If found guilty, he will be sentenced to death. Foyle decides to look unofficially into the case. He visits James Deveraux in his cell and finds a damaged young man intent on self destruction, unwilling to do or say anything in his defence. With time running out, he desperately searches for any evidence to clear Deveraux's name.
259b	2013-03-24	The Eternity Ring	In 1946 Foyle arrives home from America, and MI5 recruits him to investigate a suspected Soviet spy ring at work in the heart of London. Now married, Sam and Adam plan for his prospective candidacy as a Labour MP whilst Foyle's old constable Frank Shaw finds it difficult to adapt to home life after arriving back from captivity in the Far East.
260b	2013-03-31	The Cage	The disappearance of a Foreign Office official appears to explain the deaths of a number of Soviet agents working for British Intelligence. An apprehensive Sam is also now working at MI5 HQ while helping her husband Adam, who is standing as a Labour Party candidate at the Peckham by-election. While on the campaign trail, Adam meets a woman who asks for his help in finding her daughter Evelyn who has been missing for three days. Back at MI5, Sam notices documents referring to Evelyn Greene, the missing woman from her husband's potential constituency. But as Foyle continues with his enquiries, the wall of silence surrounding a mysterious military facility leads him to question the motives of his own colleagues.
261b	2013-04-07	Sunflower	Foyle investigates a former Nazi SS officer Strasser, now protected by MI5 in exchange for providing Soviet intelligence. Threats, a bullet, and sunflower refer to "Operation Sunflower" 1944 in France, wherein Strasser ordered 26 surrendered American soldiers shot but claims he was elsewhere at a desk. American officials want him turned over as a war criminal. Meanwhile, Sam orders a phone tap after Adam suspects a government minister of illegal land speculation when a complainant is viciously assaulted.
262b	2015-01-04	High Castle	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. When it transpires that the professor was actually working at the Nuremberg trials, Foyle realizes that there are powerful people trying to conceal secrets from the war. It looks as if Knowles may have taken a bribe to carry information back to England for suspected Nazi war criminal Hermann Linz. When Linz is found dead, Foyle is under no illusion that foul play is behind the academic's murder. While Foyle investigates the deaths of Knowles and Linz, his unofficial assistant Sam Wainwright decides to step up her role at work and volunteers for a risky undercover job. Foyle, unaware of her pregnancy, agrees.
262b	2015-01-11	Trespass	When a young man is assaulted in the grounds of a university, Foyle wonders if the attack is racially motivated as the victim is the wealthy son of a high-profile Jewish businessman. Tensions are also starting to run high in London with a charismatic right-wing leader, but it looks like there may be more to his prison release than meets the eye, and he is in fact being set up to take the spotlight off a dangerous espionage operation. Sam meanwhile is determined to help a young boy she meets in hospital suffering from whooping cough; the NHS is still to come into being and she sees that Adam’s constituents are in need of greater state care after the deprivations of the war.
263b	2015-01-18	Elise	Foyle must re-examine Hilda Pierce’s top-secret role during the war within SOE when she is the target of an assassination attempt outside MI5. SOE's French section sent many agents behind enemy lines, and Foyle suspects the shooting may be connected to the hunt for a traitor within SOE called Plato, who could have been behind the deaths of nine British SOE agents in France. Meanwhile, Sam is faced with a dilemma when Adam and Glenvil decide to crack down on the black market in East Peckham, resulting in Adam’s arrest when some illegal cigarettes are planted in their home.
263b		Bonus Features!	Featurette about the truth behind the fiction for each episode (50 min.), a day in the life of Foyle's War (25 min.), an interview with John Mahoney (20 min.), back in time with Foyle's War (26 min.), and a photo gallery