Albert (BBC 1951 with Bill Travers and Michael Gough)
UK / BBC / 1×100 minute episodes / Broadcast 12 August 1951 Writers: Edward Sammis, Guy Morgan / Producer: Stephen Harrison Wartime drama. During the second world war a group of allied P.O.W.s use a...
View ArticleMantrap (ITV 1956)
UK / ITV – Associated Rediffusion / 7×30 minute episodes / Broadcast 17 September – 9 October 1956 Executive Producer: Caryl Doncaster Wartime spy drama series. Exploits of spies during the Second...
View ArticlePassing Bells, The (BBC-1 2014, Paddy Gibson, Jack Lowden)
A strong drama tying in with the 100th First World Anniversary Commemorations, The Passing Bells was stripped across five weekday nights and followed the progress of the war through the eyes of two...
View ArticleFooling Hitler (ITV-1 2004, Jason Durr, Dorian Healy)
Drama documentary Fooling Hitler focused on the story of an unorthodox unit put together during Word War II whose task it was to provide deceptions and hoaxes to disguise the real intentions and...
View ArticleParer’s War (ABC-1 2014, Matt Le Nevez, Adelaide Clemens)
Wartime drama Parer’s War took us back to 1942. With Darwin under attack, war documentary maker Damien Parer is filming Australian troops fighting the Japanese in New Guinea. He knows he needs to make...
View ArticleWish Me Luck (ITV 1988-1990, Kate Buffery, Suzanna Hamilton)
Drawing comparisons with such shows as Secret Army and Manhunt Wish Me Luck stars Kate Buffery (in her first big lead role) as 20-something Liz Graniger, she has a five year old daughter and her...
View ArticleJane (BBC-2 1982, Glynis Barber, Robin Bailey)
Jane was a clever BBC series of the early 1980’s mixing cartoon backgrounds with live actors. Jane had been created by Norman Pett as a comic strip that appeared in the Daily Mirror during world war II...
View ArticleP.O.W. (ITV 2003, James D’Arcy, Patrick Baladi)
Wartime drama series telling tales of life in a World War II German P.O.W. camp. The series tells the story of the solidarity between a group of lads thrown together in the face of adversity but with...
View ArticleAll The King’s Men (BBC-1 1999, David Jason, Maggie Smith)
All the King’s Men was a one off period drama broadcast on BBC One on 14 November 1994. David Jason headlined alongside Maggie Smith. In the ultimately sad drama, when world war one breaks out, a group...
View ArticleDanger UXB (ITV Drama, Anthony Andrews, Judy Geeson)
In the superior world war two set drama series Danger UXB Lieutenant Brian Ash (Anthony Andrews) finds himself drafted into a bomb disposal squad, 97 Company Royal Engineers (part of the 27th...
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