Foyle's War

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British television series detective drama television series fictional character fictional police detective fictional police officer period drama television series

Foyle's War is a British detective drama series set during and after World War II, following a principled police detective solving crimes on the home front.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Foyle's War canonical	22
Foyle’s War	2
Foyle's War (TV series)	1
Foyle's War, Series 1	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British television series ⓘ detective drama television series ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional police detective ⓘ fictional police officer ⓘ period drama television series ⓘ
broadcastFormat	television drama ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom ⓘ
creator	Anthony Horowitz ⓘ
distributor	Acorn Media ⓘ
employer	Sussex Police ⓘ surface form: Hastings police police ⓘ
filmingLocation	East Sussex ⓘ Hastings ⓘ
firstAired	2002 ⓘ
genre	crime drama ⓘ historical drama ⓘ mystery ⓘ
hasCharacter	Christopher Foyle ⓘ Paul Milner ⓘ Samantha Stewart ⓘ
hasTheme	espionage ⓘ home front during World War II ⓘ morality in wartime ⓘ social change in 1940s Britain ⓘ war crimes ⓘ
lastAired	2015 ⓘ
mainCharacter	Christopher Foyle ⓘ
medium	television ⓘ
notableFor	historical accuracy ⓘ integration of real wartime events into plots ⓘ
numberOfEpisodes	28 ⓘ
numberOfSeries	8 ⓘ
occupation	Detective Chief Superintendent ⓘ driver ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
originalNetwork	ITV ⓘ
portrays	Christopher Foyle ⓘ Paul Milner ⓘ Samantha Stewart ⓘ
portraysCharacter	Christopher Foyle ⓘ
productionCompany	Greenlit Productions ⓘ ITV ⓘ surface form: ITV Studios
setDuring	World War II ⓘ surface form: Second World War
setInPeriod	post–World War II era ⓘ
settingLocation	Hastings ⓘ South Coast of England ⓘ
starring	Ian Hanmore ⓘ surface form: Anthony Howell Honeysuckle Weeks ⓘ Michael Kitchen ⓘ

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Edward Fox → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

Phyllida Law → televisionWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Foyle’s War

Masterpiece → hasNotableAdaptation → Foyle's War ⓘ

Stella Gonet → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

Julian Wadham → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

Phoebe Nicholls → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Foyle’s War

Geoffrey Streatfeild → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

Joanna David → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

Diana Hardcastle → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

Michael Kitchen → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

David Westhead → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

Nicholas Farrell → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

Jeremy Swift → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

Jeremy Swift → appearedIn → Foyle's War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Foyle's War (TV series)

Anthony Horowitz → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

Christopher Foyle → appearsIn → Foyle's War ⓘ

Christopher Foyle → firstAppearance → Foyle's War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Foyle's War, Series 1

Christopher Foyle → fictionalUniverse → Foyle's War ⓘ

Honeysuckle Weeks → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

Honeysuckle Weeks → characterIn → Foyle's War ⓘ

Samantha Stewart → appearsIn → Foyle's War ⓘ

Samantha Stewart → fictionalUniverse → Foyle's War ⓘ

Greenlit Productions → notableWork → Foyle's War ⓘ

Greenlit Productions → producedTelevisionSeries → Foyle's War ⓘ

Paul Milner → appearsIn → Foyle's War ⓘ

Paul Milner → fictionalUniverse → Foyle's War ⓘ