Customer Reviews:
Splendid BBC Series........2007-07-17
Small correction to the last review, Foyles War is an ITV Series not BBC.
Have We Been Foyled for the Last Time???.......2007-07-09
Upon watching the last thrilling episode, in which Foyle confronts the insurmountable stumbling blocks of wartime necessity headlong by tendering his resignation----After all, the Ruhr dams must be busted!----I had to go online to make sure that a new season was coming up. I have become addicted to this low-key but absorbing, instructive, and endlessly entertaining mystery series. And there are still about three years of World War II to go.
As this series continues, the lead characters, Chief Inspector Foyle (Michael Kitchen) and Samantha (Honeysuckle Weeks), become ever more engaging. The settings of Hastings and the Sussex countryside become ever more picturesque. Moreover, as the mysteries become ever more intriguing, the narrative of Britain during the Blitz----the people's hardships, their gallantry, and in many cases their victimization by unscrupulous profiteers----becomes indelibly compelling. The series would make an excellent teaching tool in a history class, since it not only presents a fascinating account of the war but it also gives a realistic depiction of the toll that war takes on the civilian population. This splendid BBC series puts a human face both on casualties and survivors, whom the modern media tend to dismiss with the callous and meaningless catchphrase, "collateral damage."
Whew! I can now rest easy. There will indeed be another season of "Foyle's War" in 2008.
Customer Reviews:
Thoroughly entertaining.......2007-10-17
I had missed some of these episodes when the series was televised.
Following the story, the acting, the scenery everything seems so authentic.
One of the best series I have seen for years. Lorna Dymond
Product Description
1 - The German Woman
2 - The White Feather
3 - A Lesson in Murder
4 - Eagle Day
Product Description
1. Invasion: American GIs arrive in Hastings to a mixed welcome and Foyle is called on to calm the locals. But his attempts at soothing relations are jeopardised when a barmaid's involvement with a visiting soldier leads to murder, leaving the detective to defy orders to keep the peace and solve the case.
2. Bad Blood: A biological warfare experiment goes wrong, resulting in the death of a local woman. With Sams life also in jeopardy, Foyle investigates.
3. Bleak Midwinter: In December 1942, Foyle is asked to investigate the accidental death of a girl in a munitions factory. But a second woman is found murdered, leading Foyle to suspect the two deaths are related. However, it is complicated by the fact that the second victim is Sgt. Milner's estranged wife.
4. Casualties of War: March, 1943. Foyles life is turned upside down when his god-daughter, Lydia, and her seven year old son, James, turn up on his doorstep needing somewhere to stay. They have nowhere else to go. James has been severely traumatised by a bombing at his London school where most of his classmates and teachers were killed; he hasnt spoken a word since. Soon after their arrival, Lydia disappears. Ably assisted by Sam, Foyle has to care for Lydias troubled young son until he can find Lydia and bring her safely home.
Product Description
1. Fifty Ships: An American multi-millionaire, an old flame of Foyle's, and a mysterious man claiming to be a Dutch refugee, are all implicated when a dead body is discovered on a Hastings beach. Meanwhile, Sam looks for somewhere to live after her home is destroyed in a bombing raid. Foyle investigates a case of looting after coins go missing from the bombed out house Sam was living in.
2.Among the Few: When a truck loaded with barrels of petrol crashes, Foyle suspects the existence of an illegal fuel racket. Sam persuades Foyle to let her go undercover at the local fuel depot to investigate. When one of the suspects is found murdered, suspicion falls on Andrew Foyle, who was the last person to see her alive.
3. War Games: October, 1940. At the London headquarters of a multinational company, a young secretary plummets to her death. In Hastings, a member of the Home Guard is killed. Foyle and Milner discover how these deaths are linked and how money talks in a universal language, even in war time.
4. The Funk Hole
Foyle investigates theft, and a possible murder, at a countryside "funk hole" - a guest house where those who can pay can sit out the war in relative comfort. But his job is made much harder when he is accused of spreading mailicious rumours and suspended from duty. While Foyle attempts to clear his name, his replacement sends Sam back to the transport corps.
Product Description
1.The French Drop: Foyle discovers the charred remains of a young man and is drawn into an intricate web of SOE espionage, where he must use all his ingenuity to avoid becoming fatally ensnared.
2. Enemy Fire: Foyle investigates a suspicious death at Dr Wrenn's famous clinic, which specialises in treating men of the Royal Air Force suffering from severe burns. As well as murder, he finds a web of adultery and sabotage.
3. They Fought in the Fields: The crash of a German plane takes Foyle to the countryside and an investigation into the death of a local farmer. Sam is inspired to work alongside the local land girls for the duration of the investigation while Foyle is intrigued by an attractive pole selector with an unhappy past.
4. A War of Nerves: A crackdown on an organised crime racket leads Foyle and Milner to a shipyard, where a group of Royal Marines find thousands of pounds of hidden cash.
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