Foyle’s War: Sets 1-5

While the world's at war, one man fights a battle on the home front. Now fans of the laconic investigator can enjoy all 19 episodes of the award-winning PBS series in one magnificent collection: From Dunkirk to VE-Day. Whether investigating sabotage, looting, prejudice, police brutality, treason, gambling or murder, Detective Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) and his colleagues in the coastal town of Hastings tackle home-front crimes that blend real-life war stories with tales of moral complexity and suspense. As always, Foyle is joined by his faithful driver Samantha Stewart (Honeysuckle Weeks) and police sergeant Paul Milner (Anthony Howell). "A triumph from start to finish"-Wall Street Journal.

The German Woman - Foyle applies to his superintendent for permission to join the army, but has his request turned down. Meanwhile, enemy aliens are being treated very differently - the Kramers, an anti-Nazi couple, are interned and badly treated, to the point that Mrs Kramer dies; however, Greta Beaumont, a German army officer's sister married to an influential local magistrate at Lower Fenton, is exempted and remains with her husband... Then, after a German bomb hits the pub in her village, Greta is viciously decapitated and Michael Turner is suspected of the murder. But Foyle finds there is more to the Beaumont family than meets the eye, and he finds corruption in his own police force.

The White Feather - It is May, 1940, and a German invasion is feared any day. Foyle investigates a girl's act of sabotage and the suspicious death of Margaret Ellis. The girl in trouble (sabotage is a hanging offence) works for the White Feather hotel, where the Friday Club - a pro-Hitler and violently anti-semitic group led by Guy Spencer - meets every Friday. Foyle is deeply shocked to find that Milner, his trusted police sergeant, is a member of the Friday Club.

A Lesson In Murder - June, 1940. A conscientious objector dies in a police cell after being refused exemption from military service by Judge Lawrence Gascoigne, and after being beaten up by the police. Then a young boy evacuated from London and billeted on Judge Gascoigne's household dies in an explosion in the garden office where Gascoigne works, leading the police to suspect a revenge attack on the Judge. It also appears that Gascoigne strongly disapproves of his daughter's lover - he works at a mysterious "munitions factory" near the Judge's house, which turns out to be making coffins. Other suspects are the girlfriend and best friend of the conscientious objector who died... Getting nowhere, Foyle asks himself a startling question - what if the small boy killed by the bomb was actually the intended victim, and not the judge at all?

Eagle Day - After a bombing raid on Hastings, a man is found dead in the rubble - but from a stab wound to the heart. Foyle soon finds that the dead man was a lorry driver who had been moving valuable paintings to a place of safety in Wales. Then Foyle's son Andrew comes home on leave from a secret radar station. Andrew's friend from University is under observation from Special Branch as a suspected communist sympathiser. Andrew befriends a WAAF and finds out about her friend who killed herself. When he tries to find out more, his senior officers try to frame him for being a spy. Sam's clergyman father visits her to ask her to come home, and he offers the insight which solves the murder of the lorry driver. That then helps Foyle to crack the trumped-up charges against Andrew. It turns out that the radar station commander had been using the strict veil of secrecy surrounding the installation to exploit female staff sexually.

Fifty Ships - An American multi-millionaire, an old flame of Foyle's, and a mysterious man claiming to be a Dutch refugee, are all implicated when a dead body is discovered on a Hastings beach. Meanwhile, Sam looks for somewhere to live after her home is destroyed in a bombing raid. Foyle investigates a case of looting after coins go missing from the bombed out house Sam was living in.

Among The Few - When a truck loaded with barrels of petrol crashes, Foyle suspects the existence of an illegal fuel racket. Sam persuades Foyle to let her go undercover at the local fuel depot to investigate. When one of the suspects is found murdered, suspicion falls on Andrew Foyle, who was the last person to see her alive.

War Games - October, 1940. At the London headquarters of a multinational company, a young secretary plummets to her death. In Hastings, a member of the Home Guard is killed. Foyle and Milner discover how these deaths are linked and how money talks in a universal language, even in war time.

The Funk Hole - Foyle investigates theft, and a possible murder, at a countryside "funk hole" - a guest house where those who can pay can sit out the war in relative comfort. But his job is made much harder when he is accused of spreading mailicious rumours and suspended from duty. While Foyle attempts to clear his name, his replacement sends Sam back to the transport corps.

The French Drop - Foyle discovers the charred remains of a young man and is drawn into an intricate web of SOE espionage, where he must use all his ingenuity to avoid becoming fatally ensnared.

Enemy Fire - Foyle investigates a suspicious death at Dr Wrenn's famous clinic, which specialises in treating men of the Royal Air Force suffering from severe burns. As well as murder, he finds a web of adultery and sabotage.

They Fought in the Fields - The crash of a German plane takes Foyle to the countryside and an investigation into the death of a local farmer. Sam is inspired to work alongside the local land girls for the duration of the investigation while Foyle is intrigued by an attractive pole selector with an unhappy past.

A War of Nerves - A crackdown on an organised crime racket leads Foyle and Milner to a shipyard, where a group of Royal Engineers find thousands of pounds of hidden cash. Assistant Commissioner Rose asks Foyle to investigate a man believed to be spreading sedition

Invasion - American GIs arrive in Hastings to a mixed welcome and Foyle is called on to calm the locals. But his attempts at soothing relations are jeopardised when a barmaid's involvement with a visiting soldier leads to murder, leaving the detective to defy orders to keep the peace and solve the case.

Bad Blood - A biological warfare experiment goes wrong, resulting in the death of a local woman. With Sam's life also in jeopardy, Foyle investigates.

Bleak Midwinter - In December 1942, Foyle is asked to investigate the accidental death of a girl in a munitions factory. But a second woman is found murdered, leading Foyle to suspect the two deaths are related. However, it is complicated by the fact that the second victim is Sgt. Milner's estranged wife.

Casualties of War - It is March, 1943, and sabotage, gambling and secret weapons are some of the issues facing DCS Foyle in Hastings. Research at a facility attempting to come up with a 'bouncing' bomb is disrupted when a man's body is found nearby. Foyle also has to cope with the arrival of his troubled god-daughter and her traumatised young son.

Plan of Attack - April 1944. When someone fires shots outside Hastings police station, killing DCS Meredith, Christopher Foyle has no choice but to put aside writing his memoirs and return to his old job.

Broken Souls - Foyle investigates the murder of a psychiatrist. The dead man's colleague, an emigré Jew from Poland, and Foyle's chess tutor, attempts suicide. A missing telegraph boy becomes a suspect when a German P.O.W. is found dead on a local farm.

All Clear - With VE Day upon them, Foyle is asked to represent the police on the councils' celebration committee. There he meets up with old friend, Major John Kiefer, who is representing the American forces. When a committee member is killed, however, the celebrations take a back seat, as Foyle sets out to uncover the murderer. Along the way he must delve into secrets that the Allied forces wish to keep hidden.

Directed by Jeremy Silberston, Gavin Millar, Tristram Powell, Giles Foster
Written by Anthony Horowitz
Produced by Keith Thompson, Simon Passmore, Lars MacFarlane
Executive Produced by Jill Green, Jim Reeve
Original Music by Jim Parker
Cinematography by Peter Middleton, Alan Almond, James Aspinall
Film Editing by Ian Farr, Angus Newton, Ardan Fisher, Roy Sharman, Martin Sharpe
Costume Design by Maria Price, Rosalind Ebbutt