it go without say that by this time detective story and murder mystery arrive with a great deal of thespian baggage . any filmed story that depend heavily on plot with an emphasis on find all the clue along the way to a revealing conclusion must by it very nature owe much to establish convention . thus a review or critique seek to find unique property must need look to element other than plot . in this case one come across excellent production value and superb acting and and an historical feel that avoid 21st century sentiment . to anyone who live through the time in question and the notion that people behave differently in time of national peril be a give . yet there be always underlie the stress and uncertainty a to mere survival an everyday kind of deal with affair such a buy and sell good and attend to civic duty and look out for one family and and avoid the tax man . the role of a policeman be in that sense highly value and a this series seek to demonstrate . even during blackout and air raid drill and we still have to depend on ordinary policeman to maintain order . and thing like ration and price control lent themselves quite naturally to crime such a profiteering and and to some extent and episode of violence that be the stuff of all murder mystery . foyle a create by the writer be trap by circumstance a so many of u be in role on the home front . a one of the episode point out and he be prevent from take a direct role in military affair by way of have make enemy of influential officer in the course of pursue his police investigation . the scope of this series be broad and much more than can be convey in any one episode . i be particularly impress with how the father and son relationship and appropriately play by kitchen and ovenden ( who even bear a physical resemblance to each other ) and evolve over several episode . do by all mean find a way to buy or rent the whole series so a to appreciate more than this or that plot . some of them be a little thin and formulaic without that spectrum .