Rating:
8/10 by 3 users
Escape
Drama series set during the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands. April 1943. Peter Porteous takes advantage of the predicament of another farmer and makes a bid for freedom.
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Release Date:
Sat, Jan 28, 1978
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Alfred Burke
Major Richter / Oberst Richter
Season 2:
Dr Martel has been sent to a French prison. A new Commander-in-Chief has been appointed on Guernsey.
Foster-Smythe has replaced Martel on the civilian controlling committee. His attitude is dangerously cavalier.
The Germans order the confiscation of all privately-owned radio receivers, so the islanders are forced to hand over their precious link with the outside world. But Captain Foster-Smythe won't be bullied and continues his campaign against the Nazis - a campaign that is doomed to fail.
In Nazi-occupied Guernsey the islanders and the Germans have a problem in common. How can Dr Martel be persuaded to rejoin the island's Controlling Committee?
His prison sentence completed, farmer Peter Porteous returns to Nazi-occupied Guernsey to settle an old score. But his encounter with Teddy Lupus leads to a murder charge - and a moral dilemma for Philip Martel.
September 1942 in the Nazi-occupied Channel Islands. On Sark a British commando raid shatters the uneasy calm.
Hitler orders the deportation of all residents not born on the islands. Marjory Clifford writes an anonymous letter - with consequences far beyond her wildest imaginings.
In Nazi-occupied Guernsey the revival of the chess tournament between Channel Island teams brings about an unexpected and, in Richter's view, a highly inflammatory outcome.
The visit by a high-ranking SS officer to Nazi-occupied Guernsey on a mysterious personal mission gives Reinicke a chance to ingratiate himself, but it brings tragedy for Betty Ridge.
While working on the construction of a German gun site in Nazi-occupied Guernsey, a Russian prisoner of war kills a guard and escapes. But those who shelter him run terrible risks.
April 1943 in the Nazi-occupied Channel Islands. A neutral Swedish journalist arrives in Guernsey at the invitation of Goebbels to gather material for an article on what the Germans regard as a "model occupation".
Drama series set during the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands. April 1943. Peter Porteous takes advantage of the predicament of another farmer and makes a bid for freedom.
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