# Foyle's War **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2012, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790 "2012-10-05T09:49:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/21 "2012-10-06T10:26:25Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > So happy to see this thread, since I am currently obsessed with Foyle’s War. BTW, in case anyone was not aware, they are currently filming [three new episodes](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/02/foyles-war-returns-three-new-films-for-2013.html) that should air on PBS in the summer of 2013. _swoon_ ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/22 "2012-10-06T11:33:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Also, if you have Amazon Prime, all episodes are available free, and with none of the PBS cuts thanks, I didn’t know that. I am currently in (yet another) free trial of amazon prime. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/23 "2012-10-06T17:27:59Z")
My uncle bought me the dvd collection of that series. Excellent. And might I add…Honeysuckle Weeks…Mmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/24 "2012-10-06T23:44:26Z")
Any show that might feature a Spitfire fly-by is worth a watch. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/25 "2012-10-06T23:49:56Z")
Having gone through what Netflix calls the first “set” (whatever that is) of programs , I have a minor gripe. Apparently the most important contributors to the war effort are murderers – and they are convinced they’re so important that they can even admit to murder and dare Foyle to arrest them for it. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/26 "2012-10-07T00:01:32Z")
I hate to be a grouch, but as someone who loves Foyle’s War, I thought the two “after the war” episodes were weak. Besides which, in one of them Foyle sees a nude painting of Ms. Weeks but we (out here in the seats) don’t even get a peek. Bastids! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/27 "2012-10-07T00:46:41Z")
Thanks to the post- “after the war” miracle of the intertubes, you can see quite a number of quite attrative nude photos of Ms. Weeks. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/28 "2012-10-07T02:08:30Z")
I wasn’t going to mention it. She’s very attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/29 "2012-10-08T14:41:21Z")
I have to say that Michael Kitchen has the best cocked eyebrow in the business. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/30 "2012-10-08T16:00:34Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > BTW, in case anyone was not aware, they are currently filming [three new episodes](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/02/foyles-war-returns-three-new-films-for-2013.html) that should air on PBS in the summer of 2013. Nice. Will they still call it _Foyle’s War_, though? Maybe _Foyle’s Peace_, or just _Foyle_. And I wonder if there will be any follow-up to the situation at the end of the last season? spoiler warning - will give away an episode, if you haven’t already seen it. [spoiler] In the early episode _Fifty Ships_ Foyle deduces the murderer, but is unable to touch him owing to wartime politics. He promises the murderer that he will come looking once the war is over, when he will no longer be protected. And then in the final episode he was heading off to America on “unfinished business,” or some similar phrase, obviously a reference to the earlier episode. I always thought that was a setup for a sequel. [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/31 "2012-10-08T18:48:09Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Having gone through what Netflix calls the first “set” (whatever that is) of programs , I have a minor gripe. Apparently the most important contributors to the war effort are murderers – and they are convinced they’re so important that they can even admit to murder and dare Foyle to arrest them for it. If that’s “Fifty Ships”, In the last episode of the last season, Foyle is planning to go to America to handle some “unfinished business” 🙂 Curses! Beaten by **Peter Morris**!!! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/32 "2012-10-08T23:57:19Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > If that’s “Fifty Ships”, > > In the last episode of the last season, Foyle is planning to go to America to handle some “unfinished business” 🙂 > > Curses! Beaten by **Peter Morris**!!! No, it’ more than that episode. [spoiler]There’s the code breaker guy. There’s the radar expert guy (who’s not a murderer but a rapist and who’s assistant commits several crimes to cover up the boss’s dirty deeds). There’s the incompetent head of the SOE (again, not a murderer, but commits a bunch of other crimes). There’s the head of the margarine company who deals with the nazis (whose son is the murderer, but who basically is given immunity for his crimes because of his importance in industry). So, I misspoke about them all being murderers, but still, committing crimes with a sense of entitlement and immunity.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/33 "2012-10-09T00:11:12Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [spoiler]No, it’ more than that episode. > > There’s the code breaker guy. > There’s the radar expert guy (who’s not a murderer but a rapist and who’s assistant commits several crimes to cover up the boss’s dirty deeds). > There’s the incompetent head of the SOE (again, not a murderer, but commits a bunch of other crimes). > There’s the head of the margarine company who deals with the nazis (whose son is the murderer, but who basically is given immunity for his crimes because of his importance in industry). > > So, I misspoke about them all being murderers, but still, committing crimes with a sense of entitlement and immunity.[/spoiler] Everything takes place with respect to “the war effort”. With things that serve the war effort taking supreme importance. And the balance Foyle has to show in deciding which things-charges and prosecutions- might actually detract from the war effort is another complicating factor of being a common detective at that time. There are times, especially early on, when Foyle practically begs his commanders to relieve him of his detective duties so that he can more fully commit to the war effort. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/34 "2012-10-09T00:31:53Z")
Boyo Jim, 2 points. First of all, there’s people reading the thread who haven’t seen all the episodes yet. Your post has major spoilers. Please use a spoiler box for this sort of thing. (reported) Secondly, you missed: The woman who was working on the Dambusters bomb, who murdered her husband. IIRC, that’s when Foyle resigned. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/35 "2013-03-23T23:06:02Z")
As a heads up, the new series of Foyle’s War starts tomorrow, Sun 24th March on ITV, 8PM (UK) ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/36 "2013-03-23T23:42:14Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > As a heads up, the new series of Foyle’s War starts tomorrow, Sun 24th March on ITV, 8PM (UK) Wait, the new NEW season? As in, season 7? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/37 "2013-03-24T00:08:33Z")
Yes, first of three brand new episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/38 "2013-03-24T04:53:07Z")
But when will it who up in the U.S., is what I want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/39 "2013-03-25T06:12:48Z")
Thanks to **Peter Morris** for the heads-up - it was well worth watching. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790/40 "2013-03-25T06:17:20Z")
Did he go to America to catch the wartime American industrialist murderer? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foyles-war/636790.md?page=3)