World War II · Series · 2002–2015
Foyle's War
In wartime Hastings, a quiet detective who would rather be fighting the war solves murders tied to profiteers, spies and the black market, and after the war is drawn into the secret world of MI5.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 2 places.
Stop 1: Hastings
Key location
Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, with his driver Sam and Sergeant Milner, investigates crimes that the war makes more tangled.
Stop 2: Post-war London
Retired from the police, Foyle is recruited by MI5 and pulled into the shadowy early years of the Cold War.
What really happened
The series begins in May 1940, when Hastings and the Sussex coast faced the threat of invasion, and each episode builds its mystery around a real side of the home front: internment of 'enemy aliens', evacuees, rationing and the black market, secret research establishments, the Home Guard and the arrival of American troops before D-Day.
Its later series move to London in 1946 and 1947, where Foyle works for MI5 against the background of the early Cold War, Soviet espionage and Britain's post-war shortages. Creator Anthony Horowitz built many episodes around documented wartime scandals, policies and secret projects.
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Full details
- Original title
- Foyle's War
- Created by
- Anthony Horowitz
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Seasons
- 8 seasons
- Released
- 2002–2015
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- Western Europe
- Themes
- Home front
- Espionage
