S6.E1

The Russian House

Episode aired Apr 11, 2010
TV-14
1h 33m

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Tim Pigott-Smith and Giles Taylor in Foyle's War (2002)

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.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.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.

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8.1/10

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Trivia
Adam Wainwright tells Sam that he spent the war at Bletchley Park doing something like intelligence work. Bletchley Park was the code breaker facility where they eventually cracked all the German codes, especially the Enigma code. The folks at Bletchley were the nerd heroes of the war.

Goofs
In the chase at the beginning of the episode, the escaped prisoner is cornered on a disused railway viaduct. These would have been pretty much unknown at the time - before the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.

Quotes
Uniformed official: It was very good of you to return after your predecessor...
Christopher Foyle: Died!
Uniformed official: In very unfortunate circumstances.
Christopher Foyle: It's my experience that most death is unfortunate, but all that was some while ago.

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8/10

Anachronisms spoil the peace

Mr. Foyle has returned in Series 7, now able to drive. How lucky he is to have a shiny new Rover to drive! Even luckier as it is a 1948 or '49 Rover P3 75 Sports Saloon and the episode is set in 1945! Maybe police in 1945 were entitled to pre-production prototypes. I enjoyed the scenes of bomb sites in London and look forward to the rest of the series, hoping that the historians who vet the scripts might cast their eye over the props department. I also wonder how the "old gang" of Foyle, Sam and Milner can be worked into later episodes. Will Foyle get some new staff? As he has given his boss just 4 weeks before he intends to retire, Foyle is not counting on a long series.