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The Worst Episodes of Foyle's War

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....

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  1. Background image for War Games
    6.2/10(9 votes)

    #1 - War Games

    S2:E3

    When a British food corporation signs a secret agreement with the Nazis to provide essential food services to the enemy during wartime, murders result.

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  2. Background image for High Castle
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - High Castle

    S9:E1

    Foyle, now working for British Intelligence, is drawn into the world of corrupt Nazi businessmen when a London university professor is found murdered.

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    Director:Stuart Orme
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Enemy Fire
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #3 - Enemy Fire

    S3:E2

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Elise
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Elise

    S9:E3

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Trespass
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Trespass

    S9:E2

    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.

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    Director:Stuart Orme
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The German Woman
    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #6 - The German Woman

    S1:E1

    The German wife of a rich and influential aristocrat exempted from wartime internment is found decapitated in the midst of anti-German feeling.

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    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Eagle Day
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    #7 - Eagle Day

    S1:E4

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The White Feather
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #8 - The White Feather

    S1:E2

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Fifty Ships
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #9 - Fifty Ships

    S2:E1

    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.

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    Director:Giles Foster
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Funk Hole
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #10 - The Funk Hole

    S2:E4

    Foyle's investigation of the death of a young black marketeer and stolen food is interrupted by his suspension on charges of sedition.

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    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The French Drop
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #11 - The French Drop

    S3:E1

    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.

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    Director:Gavin Millar
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for They Fought in the Fields
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #12 - They Fought in the Fields

    S3:E3

    April 1941: Foyle questions three Land Army girls about a murder that occurs on a Hastings farm.

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  14. Background image for A War of Nerves
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #13 - A War of Nerves

    S3:E4

    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.

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    Director:Gavin Millar
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Broken Souls
    7.8/10(651 votes)

    #14 - Broken Souls

    S6:E2

    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.

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  16. Background image for A Lesson in Murder
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    #15 - A Lesson in Murder

    S1:E3

    Foyle investigates the suicide of a pacifist and death threats to the judge who ruled against his conscientious objector status.

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    Director:David Thacker
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Invasion
    8.0/10(690 votes)

    #16 - Invasion

    S4:E1

    American troops arrive in Britain and the Corps of Engineers building an airstrip on a Hastings farm is met with resentment.

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    Director:Gavin Millar
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Plan of Attack
    8.0/10(650 votes)

    #17 - Plan of Attack

    S6:E1

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Among the Few
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #18 - Among the Few

    S2:E2

    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.

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  20. Background image for Bleak Midwinter
    8.2/10(683 votes)

    #19 - Bleak Midwinter

    S5:E1

    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.

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    Director:Gavin Millar
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Russian House
    8.2/10(625 votes)

    #20 - The Russian House

    S7:E1

    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.

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    Director:Stuart Orme
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Eternity Ring
    8.2/10(555 votes)

    #21 - The Eternity Ring

    S8:E1

    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.

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    Director:Stuart Orme
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Bad Blood
    8.4/10(685 votes)

    #22 - Bad Blood

    S4:E2

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Casualties of War
    8.4/10(675 votes)

    #23 - Casualties of War

    S5:E2

    Foyle has his hands full dealing with illegal gambling, sabotage, and his needy goddaughter who shows up on his doorstep with her traumatized son.

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    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Killing Time
    8.4/10(567 votes)

    #24 - Killing Time

    S7:E2

    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.

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    Writer:David Kane
  26. Background image for The Cage
    8.4/10(530 votes)

    #25 - The Cage

    S8:E2

    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.

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    Director:Stuart Orme
    Writer:David Kane

Worst Episodes Summary

"War Games" is the worst rated episode of "Foyle's War". It scored 6.2/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by Giles Foster and written by Michael Russell, it aired on 11/30/2003. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "High Castle".