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Foyle’s War

A murder series that uses the detective form to open less familiar rooms in wartime history.

The source-linked file

  1. 01The official record gives 28 episodes across nine series, with the final episode broadcast on 18 January 2015.
  2. 02Michael Kitchen plays Christopher Foyle, investigating murder, espionage and treason on the English south coast during the Second World War.
  3. 03Later series move Foyle into British intelligence and recast the drama as a Cold War thriller.

A superfan’s reading

The great achievement is moral scale: the murder gives each episode an engine, but rationing, collaboration, internment, intelligence and post-war compromise are never mere wallpaper.

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