Fifty Ships

Episode aired Nov 16, 2003
TV-14
1h 38m

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8.5/10

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Geoffrey Freshwater and Anthony Howell in Foyle's War (2002)

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After Foyle is a guest at a friend's home at a dinner for an important American industrialist, a suicide victim and German agent both are discovered near the house.After Foyle is a guest at a friend's home at a dinner for an important American industrialist, a suicide victim and German agent both are discovered near the house.After Foyle is a guest at a friend's home at a dinner for an important American industrialist, a suicide victim and German agent both are discovered near the house.

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Trivia
When Richard Hunter is in the pub reading the newspaper article about Howard Paige, another front page article describes the death on stage of an actress appearing in the Portsmouth Hippodrome. This incident actually occurred although it happened in 1936, not in 1940 as the newspaper indicates.

Goofs
The date is September, 1940. Foyle goes into the local newspaper to get copies of photos taken at the site of a Nazi bombing. The editor says the photos have not been cleared yet by the government. As he is talking, and then after Foyle walks out, the editor is chain smoking, lighting one cigarette from another. Later, the American Howard Paige is also smoking. In all cases, they are filter cigarettes, which weren't in wide use until 1954. Throughout WWII, American soldiers were taught to "field strip" (shred) cigarettes so the enemy wouldn't know they were American cigarettes on the ground. They could do that with Lucky Strikes and Pall Malls, but filter tip butts are indestructible.

Quotes
[Jamieson, a volunteer firefighter, has been caught stealing valuables from bombed-out houses]
Henry Jamieson: I haven't got anything to say to you.
DCS Christopher Foyle: Well, that doesn't surprise me. You know, I sometimes wonder why I do this job. And then I come across someone like you. I mean, we're living in such evil times, when the whole world seems to be sinking into some sort of mire. And as if Hitler wasn't enough, we got the likes of you, who capitalize on other people's misery, who hurt them, make things even worse for them when they're at their weakest. And it's with the likes of you that this... mire... begins. And it's some small consolation to know that I've helped to clean up just a little bit of it.

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Featured in Jeremy Vine: Episode #2.189 (2019)

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Moonlight Sonata
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Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven

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9/10

A terrific story.

Fifty Ships quite literally starts with a bang, it's an episode that exposes an untold story of the war, what about those friends and relatives on the wrong side of the war?

The start really is fantastic, if sets the tone for the episode, which never gets dull, it will keep you glued.

It is an amazingly well written episode, it tells a fascinating story. Some great scenes, my favourite being the one between Clive Merrison and Janine Duvitski, a great, angry moment.

It's superb. 9/10