Foyle’s War is a fantastic hybrid television series out of England. It is a detective series set in World War II England with plenty of family drama elements. Each episode is a fascinating history lesson presented under layers of domestic crime and murder. Anthony Horowitz, veteran British TV mystery writer of “Midsomer Murders” and “Poirot,” wrote or co-wrote every wonderful TV-movie-length episode.

Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle – as played by Shakespearean actor Michael Kitchen – is an amazingly low key detective. He is so disarming that he can sometimes conduct a successful interrogation without speaking a word at all – amazing to see!

Foyle refuses to drive, and therefore is assigned a military driver in the waif-like form of Samantha “Sam” Stewart, played with proper British primness by Honeysuckle Weeks. His chief investigator is a war amputee Sergeant Paul Milner, played by Anthony Howell with a fine undercurrent of dignified angst. Foyle’s son Andrew, played in swashbuckling fashion by gorgeous Julian Ovenden, is an RAF pilot and gives us glimpses into front-line action.

It’s interesting to see Foyle as a frustrated local cop who is repeatedly trying to move his talents to the front line to help with the war cause, yet repeatedly choosing justice over advancement. Yes, conspiracies, corruption and treachery also play a big role in this series.

The series pace was intended to show a new episode taking place every few months or so during the course of the war. However, some idiot studio boss cancelled the popular series, forcing the producers to fast-forward their episodes to depict the end of the war in England. The idiot studio boss was ultimately fired, and instead of making up the “lost” episodes, the series will continue into the post-war era under the new title “Foyle’s Peace.”

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