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{{quote|''"All illegal. All morally unacceptable. How would you like to justify it?"''

 

British crime drama, debuted in 2002, starring Michael Kitchen as DCS Christopher Foyle, a high-ranking detective in Hastings during the [[Second World War]]. When his requests for transfer into the war effort are denied, the modest, mild-tempered Foyle begrudgingly returns to his duties on the Home Front, only to find that his job is more in-demand than ever, as people all over are taking advantage of the panic, confusion and chaos caused by the outbreak of war to try and get away with murder - in many cases literally.

 

When ITV decided to stop making the series and make two final episodes, one each for 1944 and 1945, there was rather a lot of complaints -- series creator [[Anthony Horowitz]] certainly wasn't happy. In the event it was not only given a final season, ending on V-E Day, but subsequently renewed for another season set in the aftermath of the war.

* [[Ace Pilot]]: Andrew and his friends.

* [[Asshole Victim]]

* [[The Danza]]: Greville '''Woods''' is played by Simon '''Woods''' in ''Enemy Fire''.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In this extensively researched series, there is only one major historical inaccuracy: the treatment used for anthrax in "Bad Blood," set in 1942, wasn't discovered until the following year, and wasn't used in medicine until after the war.

* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Barbara in "They Fought in the Fields."

* [[Draft Dodging]]: Featured several times. One episode featured a man with a heart condition who ran a racket where he would turn up at the medical exam of someone who had been called up, claiming to be that person, and fail due to his heart condition, thereby allowing them to avoid conscription.

* [[Stiff Upper Lip]]

* [[The Stoic]]: Foyle. Others too, but Milner for instance has a lapse in "Bleak Midwinter" to show that [[OOC Is Serious Business]], whereas with Foyle there simply never is any OOC.

* [[Stranger in a Familiar Land]]/[[So What Do We Do Now?]]

* [[The Summation]]

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