Series 4 of the ITV programme Foyle's War was first aired in 2006. It is the only series to be divided into two parts, one comprising two episodes screened in 2006, and the other comprising two from 2007. It was the last series of four episodes; later series had only three. It is set in the period from March 1942 to March 1943.
American engineers begin to arrive in Hastings, resulting in some tension from the locals. For David Barrett, owner of the farm at Hawthorn Cross, it becomes hostility due to a forced land requisition for an aerodrome. For Susan Davies, a local barmaid, the arrival represents an opportunity for adventure and freedom. Some six weeks later, an army friend of Milner's, Will Grayson, returns home on leave but soon dies in a house fire after an apparent accident. Milner is shocked at the loss and begins to investigate the possible causes. Captain Keiffer, commander of the Americans, invites Foyle to speak to his men about England and the English. Davies, now pregnant by an American GI, blackmails her boss Alan Carter into continuing to run a profitable yet illegal still on his property. However, she is soon found strangled to death at a dance held by the American soldiers. Suspicion initially turns to her American boyfriend, then to Barrett, and finally to his nephew who had been engaged to Davies. The arrest of Carter over the illegal still ends the investigation as Foyle realises that it was he who killed Davies to stop her profiting from the toxic alcohol linked to the death of Grayson.
Cast and charactersEdit
The episode marks the transfer of Station Sergeant Ian Brooke to Hastings from Deptford in London, and also the arrival of Captain John Keiffer and his 215th Engineer Battalion (Aviation) who plan to establish a US Army Air Force landing field nearby. Foyle is befriended by Keiffer, an engineer from Northbridge, Massachusetts, in a relationship that deepens since the two share a common interest in fly-fishing. Keiffer also mentions the loss of his younger brother on the Reuben James in October 1941. Milner's friend, Will Grayson, is a fellow survivor of the failed Norwegian Campaign and the man who helped rescue and evacuate Milner from Trondheim. Stewart meanwhile receives a Dear Jane letter from Andrew Foyle, who is now stationed at RAF Debden, and as a result she accepts a date with Keiffer's driver, Private Joe Farnetti (which irks the senior Foyle who thinks she is being somewhat unfaithful).
Background and ProductionEdit
The arrival of American "Doughboy" forces to England, which began on 26 January 1942,[1] marked the start of another dramatic change to the English wartime homefront as resentment against US forces (as expressed in the sayings "late to the last war, late to this one" or "over-sexed, over-paid and over here") began again.[2] Around this time, forced land requisitioning for military use increased sharply, while rationing of basic goods continued. RAF Debden, where the younger Foyle is stationed, parallels the story of transferring resources to American Forces, since it was transferred some six months after this episode (on 12 September 1942) to the Eighth Air Force. Filmed: March–April 2005
A secret biological warfare experiment with anthrax at a nearby base becomes dangerous when an infected sheep carcass is lost in transit. Martin Ashford, a Quaker conscientious objector, is accused of murdering Thomas Jenkins, a survivor of the sinking of the Navarino in Convoy PQ 17 and DSM recipient. Ashford's sister, Edith, now a nurse, asks her old school friend Milner for help. Foyle agrees to look into the matter, but his visit to nearby Hyde initially irks his old friend DCS David Fielding. Investigations show that Ashford and Jenkins had had a run-in at a local pub over Ashford's CO status and Jenkins' wife's affair. Foyle also investigates the theft of cattle at nearby Foxhall Farm, a property owned by Brian Jones, Jenkins' father-in-law, where Ashford was a labourer. The murder weapon, a veterinary trocar belonging to Ted Cartwright but seemingly lost at Foxhall Farm, is given to Foyle by Fielding. Meanwhile, Elsie Jenkins and Stewart are both infected with anthrax. Later investigations lead to Henry Styles, another Quaker, who guides Foyle to Captain George Halliday, commander of the secret anthrax research facility, and assistant researcher Mark Wilcox. In the end, it is revealed that Leonard Cartwright also survived the sinking of the Navarino, despite being shot by Jenkins, and killed him to stop his bullying and duplicity.
Cast and charactersEdit
Joe Farnetti, Stewart's American boyfriend from California, proposes on the beach to her, but she stalls for more time. Farnetti incorrectly states he did his training at Fort Benning in Virginia (Ft Benning is in Georgia). Edith Ashford, an old school friend of Milner (and sister of the accused) re-friends him and expresses a romantic interest. Foyle and Fielding are shown to be old yet distanced colleagues and ex-WW1 soldiers. Fielding mentions "bad blood" after surviving a chlorine gas attack during the Second Battle of Ypres.
Foyle busts a restaurateur for offering illegal Christmas foods which are then confiscated as evidence. He then begins to investigate the death of Grace Phillips, a munitions worker who accidentally killed herself on the job. Tensions at her funeral begin to cast suspicion on her scheming lover, Harry Osborne, just as suspicions fall on Milner over the sudden and "convenient" murder of his wife after a public row over their divorce in a hotel. Meanwhile, another worker, Phyllis Law, tries to blackmail Eddie Baker, the factory foreman, over a dubious collection Baker had taken up for Phillips's ageing mother (since Law discovered that Phillips was in fact an orphan). It is also revealed that Phillips and Mrs Milner knew each other as hairdressers before the war. Constable Peters admits his duplicity in manipulating evidence to get back at Milner over his earlier reprimand of him in the Christmas food case. In the end Foyle confronts Osborne in the bank cellar, where it is revealed that Osborne had asked Phillips to steal explosives in order to break into the safe at the bank located next to the hairdresser shop, later using rat-poison to silence her, and that Osborne had also killed Mrs Milner to steal back a condemning letter written by Phillips.
Cast and charactersEdit
Milner and Ashford continue their budding relationship, but things are complicated by the sudden return of Milner's wife Jane (Mali Harries) after an absence of more than a year. Stewart and Brooke spend the episode lobbying Foyle for the chance to eat a confiscated turkey before it spoils.
Background and ProductionEdit
This episode focuses on the problems within a war-time munitions factory, such as health and safety, as well as pay inequality for munitionettes. Jane Milner mentions the 3-year separation cool-down period for a divorce under the Matrimonial Causes Act. It also revisits the theme of black-marketeering. Filmed: February–March 2006
Two local youths, the brothers Terry and Frank Morgan, break into a local wealthy mansion but are co-opted into an apparent pacifist sabotage ring led by supposedly neutral Spaniard Josė de Perez. Meanwhile, Milner is asked to infiltrate and investigate a gambling ring as Foyle is confronted by the new straight-laced Assistant Commissioner Henry Parkins. In addition, Foyle's goddaughter Lydia Nicholson and her traumatised young son James come unexpectedly from London to stay. As Foyle struggles to readjust to sharing his house, things become more difficult when Lydia suddenly goes missing and is later found alive after a suicide attempt. Meanwhile, a local man reports hearing a shot fired near a secret admiralty research centre. Upon investigation, the body of Michael Richards, a teacher with gambling debts, is found half-buried in the woods near the research centre where his wife Evelyn works. The leader of the facility, an old professor acquaintance of Foyle, is initially unable to provide any assistance, but seems surprised when Foyle asserts that Richards was lured there by his wife and killed by her Danish lover Hans Lindemann. However, when Foyle is again prevented from bringing the culprits to justice due to national concerns, he tenders his resignation in protest.
Cast and charactersEdit
Stewart notes that The Wizard of Oz is playing at the Palace Theatre. She brings the Brighter Blackout Book (1939) to Foyle's house to amuse young James. Also, when Milner chats with one of Michael Richards' students, they mention the Sexton Blake and Just William books.
Background and ProductionEdit
The episode again touches upon the theme of immunity from justice despite the war that aims to champion such noble ideals as British law and order. Much of the episode's historical content was inspired by the invention of the bouncing bomb and the Dambusters raid of 1943, as portrayed in the film The Dam Busters. Writer Anthony Horowitz planned his story to "shadow" one aspect of the bomb's development; the episode depicts a group of scientists experimenting with a mechanism to put backspin on the bomb. The test sequence was designed to replicate the actual tests, including a depiction of the official cameraman, which allowed them to add in archive footage.[3] Another historical reference in this episode is the bombing of the Sandhurst Road School, in Catford, South East London, on 20 January 1943, in which 38 children and six teachers were killed, and some 60 other children and adults were injured.[4] Filmed: March–April 2006
International broadcastEdit
The two episodes for part 2 screened in Denmark on 5 and 12 September 2006, some months before their ITV debut.[citation needed] Part 1 was broadcast in the United States on PBS on Mystery! on 17 and 24 June 2007, and part 2 on 1 and 8 July 2007, as Foyle's War IV.[5] The series was added to Netflix as of April 2014.[6]
ReferencesEdit
^"American Soldiers Arrive in Great Britain, January 26, 1942". The National WWII Museum Blog. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
^Gardiner, Juliet. "Americans in Britain". WW2History.com. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
^Powell, Tristram (2007). Foyle's War: Behind the Scenes Documentary (DVD Extra feature). Greenlit Productions.
^"Foyle's War (TV Series): Casualties of War (2007) — Trivia". IMDb. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
^. PBS. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015.
^Thomas, Chet (2 April 2014). . Netflix TV Shows Review. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014.
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Series 4 of the ITV programme Foyle s War was first aired in 2006 It is the only series to be divided into two parts one comprising two episodes screened in 2006 and the other comprising two from 2007 It was the last series of four episodes later series had only three It is set in the period from March 1942 to March 1943 Foyle s WarSeason 4No of episodes4Series chronology PreviousSeries 3Next Series 5List of episodes Contents 1 Episodes Part 1 1 1 Invasion 1 1 1 Cast and characters 1 1 2 Background and Production 1 2 Bad Blood 1 2 1 Cast and characters 1 2 2 Background and Production 2 Episodes Part 2 2 1 Bleak Midwinter 2 1 1 Cast and characters 2 1 2 Background and Production 2 2 Casualties of War 2 2 1 Cast and characters 2 2 2 Background and Production 3 International broadcast 4 References 5 External linksEpisodes Part 1 Edit Invasion Edit Writer Anthony Horowitz Director Gavin Millar Airdate 15 January 2006 Net duration 94 minutes Set March 1942 Viewers 8 23 millionGuests Jay Benedict Zoe Tapper Philip Jackson John McArdle Andrew MacLachlan Peter Jonfield Corey Johnson Jonah Lotan Keith Barron Peter Youngblood Hills American engineers begin to arrive in Hastings resulting in some tension from the locals For David Barrett owner of the farm at Hawthorn Cross it becomes hostility due to a forced land requisition for an aerodrome For Susan Davies a local barmaid the arrival represents an opportunity for adventure and freedom Some six weeks later an army friend of Milner s Will Grayson returns home on leave but soon dies in a house fire after an apparent accident Milner is shocked at the loss and begins to investigate the possible causes Captain Keiffer commander of the Americans invites Foyle to speak to his men about England and the English Davies now pregnant by an American GI blackmails her boss Alan Carter into continuing to run a profitable yet illegal still on his property However she is soon found strangled to death at a dance held by the American soldiers Suspicion initially turns to her American boyfriend then to Barrett and finally to his nephew who had been engaged to Davies The arrest of Carter over the illegal still ends the investigation as Foyle realises that it was he who killed Davies to stop her profiting from the toxic alcohol linked to the death of Grayson Cast and characters Edit The episode marks the transfer of Station Sergeant Ian Brooke to Hastings from Deptford in London and also the arrival of Captain John Keiffer and his 215th Engineer Battalion Aviation who plan to establish a US Army Air Force landing field nearby Foyle is befriended by Keiffer an engineer from Northbridge Massachusetts in a relationship that deepens since the two share a common interest in fly fishing Keiffer also mentions the loss of his younger brother on the Reuben James in October 1941 Milner s friend Will Grayson is a fellow survivor of the failed Norwegian Campaign and the man who helped rescue and evacuate Milner from Trondheim Stewart meanwhile receives a Dear Jane letter from Andrew Foyle who is now stationed at RAF Debden and as a result she accepts a date with Keiffer s driver Private Joe Farnetti which irks the senior Foyle who thinks she is being somewhat unfaithful Background and Production Edit The arrival of American Doughboy forces to England which began on 26 January 1942 1 marked the start of another dramatic change to the English wartime homefront as resentment against US forces as expressed in the sayings late to the last war late to this one or over sexed over paid and over here began again 2 Around this time forced land requisitioning for military use increased sharply while rationing of basic goods continued RAF Debden where the younger Foyle is stationed parallels the story of transferring resources to American Forces since it was transferred some six months after this episode on 12 September 1942 to the Eighth Air Force Filmed March April 2005 Bad Blood Edit Writer Anthony Horowitz Director Jeremy Silberston Airdate 22 January 2006 Net duration 94 minutes Set August 1942 Viewers 8 17 millionGuests Peter Sandys Clarke Ben Meyjes Philip Franks Caroline Martin Tom Harper Roy Marsden Jonah Lotan Kenneth Colley Gawn Grainger Hugh Sachs Tim Delap A secret biological warfare experiment with anthrax at a nearby base becomes dangerous when an infected sheep carcass is lost in transit Martin Ashford a Quaker conscientious objector is accused of murdering Thomas Jenkins a survivor of the sinking of the Navarino in Convoy PQ 17 and DSM recipient Ashford s sister Edith now a nurse asks her old school friend Milner for help Foyle agrees to look into the matter but his visit to nearby Hyde initially irks his old friend DCS David Fielding Investigations show that Ashford and Jenkins had had a run in at a local pub over Ashford s CO status and Jenkins wife s affair Foyle also investigates the theft of cattle at nearby Foxhall Farm a property owned by Brian Jones Jenkins father in law where Ashford was a labourer The murder weapon a veterinary trocar belonging to Ted Cartwright but seemingly lost at Foxhall Farm is given to Foyle by Fielding Meanwhile Elsie Jenkins and Stewart are both infected with anthrax Later investigations lead to Henry Styles another Quaker who guides Foyle to Captain George Halliday commander of the secret anthrax research facility and assistant researcher Mark Wilcox In the end it is revealed that Leonard Cartwright also survived the sinking of the Navarino despite being shot by Jenkins and killed him to stop his bullying and duplicity Cast and characters Edit Joe Farnetti Stewart s American boyfriend from California proposes on the beach to her but she stalls for more time Farnetti incorrectly states he did his training at Fort Benning in Virginia Ft Benning is in Georgia Edith Ashford an old school friend of Milner and sister of the accused re friends him and expresses a romantic interest Foyle and Fielding are shown to be old yet distanced colleagues and ex WW1 soldiers Fielding mentions bad blood after surviving a chlorine gas attack during the Second Battle of Ypres Background and Production Edit Milner mentions the abolition of rations for private petrol a law which came into effect on 1 July 1942 Mention is made by Leonard Cartwright of Convoy PQ 17 and of the sinking of the Christopher Newport and Navarino which happened on 4 5 July 1942 Simon Higgins the blinded scientist on the bed refers to The London School of Hygiene amp Tropical Medicine and Foyle is given streptomycin to treat Stewart although in error as streptomycin was not discovered until 1943 Filmed April May 2005Episodes Part 2 Edit Bleak Midwinter Edit Writer Anthony Horowitz Director Gavin Millar Airdate 11 February 2007 Net duration 93 minutes Set December 1942 Viewers 8 18 millionGuests Ron Cook Liz Fraser Gavin Brocker Paul Jesson Caroline Martin John Nettleton John Kane Ann Beach Kate Ambler Mali Harries Sian BrookeFoyle busts a restaurateur for offering illegal Christmas foods which are then confiscated as evidence He then begins to investigate the death of Grace Phillips a munitions worker who accidentally killed herself on the job Tensions at her funeral begin to cast suspicion on her scheming lover Harry Osborne just as suspicions fall on Milner over the sudden and convenient murder of his wife after a public row over their divorce in a hotel Meanwhile another worker Phyllis Law tries to blackmail Eddie Baker the factory foreman over a dubious collection Baker had taken up for Phillips s ageing mother since Law discovered that Phillips was in fact an orphan It is also revealed that Phillips and Mrs Milner knew each other as hairdressers before the war Constable Peters admits his duplicity in manipulating evidence to get back at Milner over his earlier reprimand of him in the Christmas food case In the end Foyle confronts Osborne in the bank cellar where it is revealed that Osborne had asked Phillips to steal explosives in order to break into the safe at the bank located next to the hairdresser shop later using rat poison to silence her and that Osborne had also killed Mrs Milner to steal back a condemning letter written by Phillips Cast and characters Edit Milner and Ashford continue their budding relationship but things are complicated by the sudden return of Milner s wife Jane Mali Harries after an absence of more than a year Stewart and Brooke spend the episode lobbying Foyle for the chance to eat a confiscated turkey before it spoils Background and Production Edit This episode focuses on the problems within a war time munitions factory such as health and safety as well as pay inequality for munitionettes Jane Milner mentions the 3 year separation cool down period for a divorce under the Matrimonial Causes Act It also revisits the theme of black marketeering Filmed February March 2006 Casualties of War Edit Writer Anthony Horowitz Director Tristram Powell Airdate 15 April 2007 Net duration 94 minutes Set March 1943 Viewers 7 89 millionGuests Kate Fleetwood Kevin Doyle Michael Jayston Stanley Townsend Harry Eden Abigail Cruttenden Dermot Crowley Gerard Kearns Joshua LewisTwo local youths the brothers Terry and Frank Morgan break into a local wealthy mansion but are co opted into an apparent pacifist sabotage ring led by supposedly neutral Spaniard Jose de Perez Meanwhile Milner is asked to infiltrate and investigate a gambling ring as Foyle is confronted by the new straight laced Assistant Commissioner Henry Parkins In addition Foyle s goddaughter Lydia Nicholson and her traumatised young son James come unexpectedly from London to stay As Foyle struggles to readjust to sharing his house things become more difficult when Lydia suddenly goes missing and is later found alive after a suicide attempt Meanwhile a local man reports hearing a shot fired near a secret admiralty research centre Upon investigation the body of Michael Richards a teacher with gambling debts is found half buried in the woods near the research centre where his wife Evelyn works The leader of the facility an old professor acquaintance of Foyle is initially unable to provide any assistance but seems surprised when Foyle asserts that Richards was lured there by his wife and killed by her Danish lover Hans Lindemann However when Foyle is again prevented from bringing the culprits to justice due to national concerns he tenders his resignation in protest Cast and characters Edit Stewart notes that The Wizard of Oz is playing at the Palace Theatre She brings the Brighter Blackout Book 1939 to Foyle s house to amuse young James Also when Milner chats with one of Michael Richards students they mention the Sexton Blake and Just William books Background and Production Edit The episode again touches upon the theme of immunity from justice despite the war that aims to champion such noble ideals as British law and order Much of the episode s historical content was inspired by the invention of the bouncing bomb and the Dambusters raid of 1943 as portrayed in the film The Dam Busters Writer Anthony Horowitz planned his story to shadow one aspect of the bomb s development the episode depicts a group of scientists experimenting with a mechanism to put backspin on the bomb The test sequence was designed to replicate the actual tests including a depiction of the official cameraman which allowed them to add in archive footage 3 Another historical reference in this episode is the bombing of the Sandhurst Road School in Catford South East London on 20 January 1943 in which 38 children and six teachers were killed and some 60 other children and adults were injured 4 Filmed March April 2006International broadcast EditThe two episodes for part 2 screened in Denmark on 5 and 12 September 2006 some months before their ITV debut citation needed Part 1 was broadcast in the United States on PBS on Mystery on 17 and 24 June 2007 and part 2 on 1 and 8 July 2007 as Foyle s War IV 5 The series was added to Netflix as of April 2014 6 References Edit American Soldiers Arrive in Great Britain January 26 1942 The National WWII Museum Blog Retrieved 21 January 2018 Gardiner Juliet Americans in Britain WW2History com Retrieved 21 January 2018 Powell Tristram 2007 Foyle s War Behind the Scenes Documentary DVD Extra feature Greenlit Productions Foyle s War TV Series Casualties of War 2007 Trivia IMDb Retrieved 21 January 2018 Foyle s War Series IV PBS Archived from the original on 21 February 2015 Thomas Chet 2 April 2014 More British TV Shows on Netflix Foyle s War Netflix TV Shows Review Archived from the original on 8 November 2014 External links EditSeries 4 on IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Foyle 27s War series 4 amp oldid 1134800390, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
