British Mini Series-

Originally posted by morse1001+Jul 28 2005, 12:33 PM-->(morse1001 @ Jul 28 2005, 12:33 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-DirtyDick@Jul 28 2005, 12:19 PM
Sure it wasn't ANZACs, as described in thread?
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could well be, one of the characters had been a deserter from the Buffs, and who was challenged by an officer from his former regiment, then made good in 1918 when he was a RSM by leading a charge against a german position which was witnessed by the BUffs officer.

I am sure it was called Empire. I also remember the Opening Titles had the AIF badge
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It was ANZACs, then. It was shown in the UK by the BBC in the late '80s - don't think it has been repeated - and came with a batch of Australian/Australian themed dramas. (Sundays, IIRC, although I was only about 10 at the time).

 

Originally posted by DirtyDick+Jul 29 2005, 12:59 AM-->(DirtyDick @ Jul 29 2005, 12:59 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Originally posted by morse1001@Jul 28 2005, 12:33 PM
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Sure it wasn't ANZACs, as described in thread?
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could well be, one of the characters had been a deserter from the Buffs, and who was challenged by an officer from his former regiment, then made good in 1918 when he was a RSM by leading a charge against a german position which was witnessed by the BUffs officer.

I am sure it was called Empire. I also remember the Opening Titles had the AIF badge
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It was ANZACs, then. It was shown in the UK by the BBC in the late '80s - don't think it has been repeated - and came with a batch of Australian/Australian themed dramas. (Sundays, IIRC, although I was only about 10 at the time).
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What ........summers????????

 

Originally posted by spidge+Jul 28 2005, 03:44 PM-->(spidge @ Jul 28 2005, 03:44 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Originally posted by DirtyDick@Jul 29 2005, 12:59 AM
Originally posted by morse1001@Jul 28 2005, 12:33 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-DirtyDick@Jul 28 2005, 12:19 PM
Sure it wasn't ANZACs, as described in thread?
[post=37007]Quoted post[/post]


could well be, one of the characters had been a deserter from the Buffs, and who was challenged by an officer from his former regiment, then made good in 1918 when he was a RSM by leading a charge against a german position which was witnessed by the BUffs officer.

I am sure it was called Empire. I also remember the Opening Titles had the AIF badge
[post=37009]Quoted post[/post]

It was ANZACs, then. It was shown in the UK by the BBC in the late '80s - don't think it has been repeated - and came with a batch of Australian/Australian themed dramas. (Sundays, IIRC, although I was only about 10 at the time).
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What ........summers????????
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Eh? Aussie dialect?

 

Originally posted by DirtyDick+Jul 30 2005, 04:06 AM-->(DirtyDick @ Jul 30 2005, 04:06 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Originally posted by spidge@Jul 28 2005, 03:44 PM
Originally posted by DirtyDick@Jul 29 2005, 12:59 AM
Originally posted by morse1001@Jul 28 2005, 12:33 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-DirtyDick@Jul 28 2005, 12:19 PM
Sure it wasn't ANZACs, as described in thread?
[post=37007]Quoted post[/post]


could well be, one of the characters had been a deserter from the Buffs, and who was challenged by an officer from his former regiment, then made good in 1918 when he was a RSM by leading a charge against a german position which was witnessed by the BUffs officer.

I am sure it was called Empire. I also remember the Opening Titles had the AIF badge
[post=37009]Quoted post[/post]

It was ANZACs, then. It was shown in the UK by the BBC in the late '80s - don't think it has been repeated - and came with a batch of Australian/Australian themed dramas. (Sundays, IIRC, although I was only about 10 at the time).
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What ........summers????????
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Eh? Aussie dialect?
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Means you only count 3 months of each year when referring to age!!!!!!!!!

 

ANZACS sounds like a good watch. I had never heard of it when I was living in Australia. I'll have to see if I can track it down.

What was the series (a comedy) that took place in occupied Britain? I can't think of the name. Or maybe it was occupied France but just had British actors. I remember seeing one episode of it years ago here in the U.S.

 

If it was with "old" soldiers being the "home guard" it may have been Dad's Army which is classic British comedy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles...y_7771975.shtml

If set in France, it may have been "Allo Allo" which is one of the funniest and most poular BBC shows ever. Certainly one of the funiest I have ever seen.

Series box sets are available on both.

http://www.timelife.com.au/index.asp?paget...50&categoryid=5

Both were extremely popular as good British comedy is craved in Australia.

If only "Till Death Do Us Part" was set during the war years.

(Hmmmm..what a good idea!)

 

Now that you mention it, I think it was "Allo Allo." The public broadcasting station here used to show some of the British comedies, and I LOVED watching them. Though not WWII, I loved "Fawlty Towers" and "Are You Being Served?"

Someone above mentioned "Combat!" Was that any good? I've seen it for sale on DVD and had a crossing thought about purchasing it.

 

Brian P-Sorry to be pedantic, but Britain was never occupied in the Second World War! The Channel Islands were of course, and this has been the subject of two British drama series. I didn't see the recent one mentioned on this thread, but there was an ITV series from the late 70's/ early 80's called, I think, 'Enemy at The Door' and set on the island of Guernsey. I don't remember much about it other than that one episode concerned a German soldier who was executed for raping a local girl. A remarkable film about an imaginary German occupied Britain is 'It Happened Here', made essentially as an amateur project in the 1960's by Kevin Brownlow (later a respected film historian) and Andrew Mollo, now THE expert on military uniforms and equipment for films, museums etc. This does have its weaknesses, but is overall a remarkable piece of work and well worth seeking out. It used to be available on video but I've never seen it on DVD.

 

Originally posted by BrianP@Jul 30 2005, 02:51 PM
Now that you mention it, I think it was "Allo Allo." The public broadcasting station here used to show some of the British comedies, and I LOVED watching them. Though not WWII, I loved "Fawlty Towers" and "Are You Being Served?"

Someone above mentioned "Combat!" Was that any good? I've seen it for sale on DVD and had a crossing thought about purchasing it.
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I do not know how it has aged however I watched every episode and I think it went for over five seasons.

Great show.

With respect to "Allo Allo" this was Fawlty Towers adapted to a war setting.

Fawlty Towers only made 12 episodes, 6 in each of two series (1975 & 1979) yet it set the bar for everything that followed.

 

Oh, I know Britain wasn't occupied. But they still could have made a show of what it could have been like...a comedic farce of what it would be like, anyway.

 

Sword of Honour was an adaptation of a trilogy of novels by Evelyn Waugh & starred Daniel Craig. Scenes ostensibly set in London were actually filmed in my home town of Edinburgh. I saw a parade being filmed at a school that was standing in for an army barracks. There was also a scene in which a woman came out of her house to see a V1 flying low over the roof tops. If it was filmed where I think it was, then the V1 was heading for my house!

Links below to the Internet Movie Database entries on ANZACS & Sword of Honour.

ANZACS.

Sword of Honour

 

I discovered from Amazon that 'Enemy At The Door' was recently released on DVD, so you can compare it with the more recent Channel Islands-set series if you like. It had a pretty good cast but I always felt that it was an ITV answer to BBC's 'Secret Army', about a Belgian escape and evasion network. This was very popular at the time and starred Bernard Hepton and the lovely Jan Francis. It spawned a post-war spin-off series 'Kessler' about the later activities of the main Nazi villain, playede by Clifford Rose. Interestingly, ' 'Allo 'Allo' 'was originally a spoof of 'Secret Army' and contains many of the plot threads of the serious series (e.g. A cafe, run by an apparent collaborator, is in fact the front for an escape network for allied airmen; the cafe owner is having an affair with the beautiful waitress behind his wife's back etc) but transformed into a French farce. The irony is that the success of the spoof totally eclipsed the dramatic original and 'Secret Army' is little remembered today. My recollections of the series is that it was typical of BBC 1970's dramas, largely videotaped and studio-bound with some filmed location sequences. In my view it never recovered from killing off the Jan Francis character in an air raid and had the usual problems of funny accents where everyone is speaking English. For example the Nazis spoke in stage German accents, Bernard Hepton and Jan Francis had a sort of Belgian twang to their voices but their main working-class Belgian henchman spoke in cockney.