The BEST episodes of Foyle's War

Every episode of Foyle's War ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Foyle's War!

Touted as the new Inspector Morse, this ITV detective show stars Michael Kitchen as a police inspector frustrated at being stuck at home investigating provincial crimes during the Second World War. Honeysuckle Weeks is an inspired choice as Foyle's sidekick, a clergyman's daughter posted from the Women's Royal Army Corps to serve as his driver, and she plays the part with an admirable period style. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940 - which may seem a strangely remote period in which to place a new detective, but the setting turns out to be a means of adding moral and dramatic depth to the storylines.

Last Updated: 11/4/2024Network: ITV1Status: Ended
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Elise
star
8.50
269 votes

#1 - Elise

Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/7/2013

Foyle must find out if there was a traitor within the SOE after Hilda Pierce is shot in an attempted assassination.

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Among The Few
star
8.23
343 votes

#2 - Among The Few

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/23/2003

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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Sunflower
star
8.18
275 votes

#3 - Sunflower

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/25/2010

Foyle is drawn into the bizarre murder of an ex-Nazi defector and leading expert on Soviet intelligence who had been working for MI5.

Directors: Stuart Orme
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War Games
star
8.15
368 votes

#4 - War Games

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/30/2003

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

Directors: Giles Foster
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The Cage
star
8.11
341 votes

#5 - The Cage

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/18/2010

Foyle's investigation into the death of a nameless Russian leads to a mysterious military facility and the discovery that the victim was a spy with dangerous connections to British intelligence.

Directors: David Richards
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Fifty Ships
star
8.10
377 votes

#6 - Fifty Ships

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/16/2003

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.

Directors: Giles Foster
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The Russian House
star
8.08
348 votes

#7 - The Russian House

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2008

The escape of a Russian POW sets off a chain of events that leads to murder and rekindles a conflict between Foyle and his former superior.

Directors: Tristram Powell
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star
8.06
18 votes

#8 - The Hide

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/16/2010

Foyle battles to save a young man accused of high treason from the executioner's noose in a case that will shatter his personal world to the core.

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Enemy Fire
star
8.02
398 votes

#9 - Enemy Fire

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/31/2004

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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Killing Time
star
7.97
353 votes

#10 - Killing Time

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/2008

Foyle goes head to head against the might of the US army when a local girl is found murdered and the finger of suspicion points to a black GI at the US military base.

Directors: Tristram Powell
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Bad Blood
star
7.95
422 votes

#11 - Bad Blood

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/22/2006

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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The Funk Hole
star
7.93
396 votes

#12 - The Funk Hole

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/7/2003

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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Bleak Midwinter
star
7.91
243 votes

#13 - Bleak Midwinter

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/11/2007

The apparently accidental death of a young woman in a munitions factory becomes linked with the station house itself.

Directors: Gavin Millar
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The Eternity Ring
star
7.89
359 votes

#14 - The Eternity Ring

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/11/2010

MI5 suspects British atomic research has been infiltrated and asks Foyle to look into whether a Russian spy network could be at work in the heart of London.

Directors: Stuart Orme
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Invasion
star
7.88
419 votes

#15 - Invasion

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/15/2006

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

Directors: Gavin Millar
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A Lesson in Murder
star
7.87
398 votes

#16 - A Lesson in Murder

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/2002

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

Directors: David Thacker
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The French Drop
star
7.86
400 votes

#17 - The French Drop

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/24/2004

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.

Directors: Gavin Millar
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star
7.84
19 votes

#18 - Plan of Attack

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/11/2007

Milner is unhappy with his new DCS and has asked for a transfer, but after the DCS is murdered, Foyle comes out of retirement to replace him.

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A War of Nerves
star
7.83
416 votes

#19 - A War of Nerves

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/14/2004

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.

Directors: Gavin Millar
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Eagle Day
star
7.82
417 votes

#20 - Eagle Day

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/17/2002

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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High Castle
star
7.80
254 votes

#21 - High Castle

Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/24/2013

Foyle is drawn into the world of corrupt Nazi businessmen when a university professor is found brutally murdered in a London park.

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Casualties of War
star
7.79
243 votes

#22 - Casualties of War

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/15/2007

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

Directors: Tristram Powell
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They Fought in the Fields
star
7.77
406 votes

#23 - They Fought in the Fields

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/7/2004

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

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The White Feather
star
7.73
402 votes

#24 - The White Feather

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/3/2002

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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star
7.72
18 votes

#25 - Broken Souls

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/15/2007

Foyles 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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