Secret Army

Director: Kenneth Ives
Writing Credits: Willis Hall
Guest Cast: Mark Burns, Howard Bell, Catherine Brandon, Abigail Brown, Daniel Chasin, Peter Holt, James Lister, Michael Graves, Peter Quince, Olwen Griffiths, Bill Rourke, Arnold Willems & Keith Ashton

Lifeline, a Brussels based resistance organization run by Lisa Colbert, helps allied aircrew evade capture and return home. The organisation is helped by Albert Foiret, the owner of the Café Candide and his mistress Monique Duchamps. The café is a handy place where the members of Lifeline can meet to discuss plans and exchange information without arousing any suspicions. Their efforts are to become even more difficult with the arrival of a ruthless SS Sturmbahnfuhrer Ludwig Kessler who has been assigned to Brussels. Along with this advent, Flight Lt John Curtis has been sent by the British Air Ministry to help coordinate the resistance organization's activities. Lifeline is less than ecstatic about their new addition.

Director: Viktors Ritelis
Writing Credits: John Brason
Guest Cast: Martin Burrows, Neville Barber, Anthony Blackett, Perry Bedden, Anthony Barnett, Steve Ubels, Jeanna L'Esty, Rob Edwards, Ian Oliver & George Mallaby

Lifeline has the problem of an increasing number of allied aircrew in need of safe shelter and guidance as the Gestapo search for them. All the resistance can do is send them down the line even though the allies are not ready, with the high likelihood of them being captured. One of the evaders, a Sergeant Walker, is captured and taken to the Gestapo headquarters where, in a bid to avoid being interrogated, throws himself down the staircase. As the Sergeant is recovering from his injuries and eventually escapes the German's clutches, Lifeline has to decide what to do with him.

Director: Paul Annett
Writing Credits: John Brason
Guest Cast: Anthony Smee, Michael Burrell, Shirley Jaffe, Hannah Isaacson, Robin Langford & David Hanson

Flight Lt John Curtis learns of the use of colour-coded ration cards for the systematic deportation Jews from Brussels and becomes involved in the plight of a Jewish family in hiding. To aid the Jewish family Curtis asks Lisa to help get them out but she refuses on the grounds of the risks involved. Lifeline face another crisis, forged Belgium banknotes Curtis has had circulated could put their operation in danger.

Director: Viktors Ritelis
Writing Credits: Arden Winch
Guest Cast: Ian McCulloch, Mary Barclay, Ruth Gower, Jeffrey Wickham, Jonathan Coy, Jonathan Darvill, Nigel Greaves, Richard Reeves, Leonard Fenton, Ken Stott, Ernest C. Jennings, John Bowe & Peter Birch

Director: Paul Annett
Writing Credits: James Andrew Hall
Guest Cast: Paul Copley, Gunnar Möller, Marianne Stone, Richard Austin, Hetty Baynes, David Trevena, Al Lampert, Gladys Powell & David Goodey

Director: Kenneth Ives
Writing Credits: Willis Hall
Guest Cast: Norman Eshley, Max Harris, Brian Glover, Susan Tracy, Vivien Merchant, Stanley Lebor, David McAllister, Keith Varnier, Michael Halsey, Martin Connor, Paul Ridley, Norwich Duff, Tony Meyer & David Lyell

Director: Paul Annett
Writing Credits: N. J. Crisp
Guest Cast: Peter Barkworth, Joanna Van Gyseghem, Bruce Montague, Christopher Guard, Ivor Roberts, Ray Armstrong, Roger Davidson, Dominic Letts, John Moore, Michael Anthony & Willy Bowman

Director: Paul Annett
Writing Credits: N. J. Crisp
Guest Cast: Peter Barkworth, Joanna Van Gyseghem, Bruce Montague, Christopher Guard, Ivor Roberts, Vera Jakob, Pauline Letts & Roy Pattison

A number of recent events unsettle our friends in Lifeline, arousing their suspicions that there may be a traitor in their midst. Custis is in the best position to investigate and decides to start by finding out exactly who tipped off the germans about the rescue attempt on Peter Romsey. Some of the members of Lifeline also suspect Curtis, as he is the new boy, so Monique is sent by Albert to tail him.

Director: Viktors Ritelis
Writing Credits: Robert Barr
Guest Cast: Gerald James, Mary Barclay, Shaun Curry, Damien Thomas, Helen Gill, Souad Faress, Jeffrey Holland, Anthony Howden, John Alkin, Daniel Hill & Brenda Kempner

Director: Viktors Ritelis
Writing Credits: Simon Masters
Guest Cast: Christopher Douglas, Barry Jackson, Edmund Pegge, Sally Sanders, Ernest C. Jennings & John Cannon

Natalie and Alain's suspicions are raised as to the authenticity of a South African radio operator's claims of belonging to the allied forces. The two members of Lifeline, unable to verify his account make the decision to kill him in case he is in actual fact a Nazi spy. The young airman, seeing that he has not convinced his interrogators, tries to escape as well as taking Natalie hostage.

Director: Kenneth Ives
Writing Credits: Willis Hall
Guest Cast: Clive Arrindell, Jon Laurimore, Richard Wren, Malcolm Hayes,James Coyle, William Simons, Valerie Shute, Rob Flanagan, Hugh Martin, Tina Jones & Paul Ridley

An SS officer named Ernst Stoller is ready to infiltrate Lifeline - his chance comes when a Wellington bomber crashes killing all five crew. Kessler takes this opportunity to inspect the bodies at the crash scene to find a swap of identity for the SS officer. Lifeline soon gets to hear of an airman in distress, leaving Monique in charge as other Lifeline members try to verify if this man is who he says he is.

Director: Kenneth Ives
Writing Credits: Michael Chapman
Guest Cast: John Carson, Frank Barrie, Paul Gregory, Paul Jerrico & Michael Forrest

Director: Viktors Ritelis
Writing Credits: James Andrew Hall
Guest Cast: Kathleen Byron, Barbara Cochran, Malcolm Bullivant, Sylva Langova, Hetty Baynes, Al Lampert & Lucy Griffiths

Director: Paul Annett
Writing Credits: John Brason
Guest Cast: Maurice Denham, Brewster Mason, Richard Gale, Bartlett Mullins, Peter Grayer, Kathleen Byron, David Gretton & Jürgen Andersen

Director: Kenneth Ives
Writing Credits: N. J. Crisp
Guest Cast: Albert Welling & John Scott Martin

Director: Viktors Ritelis
Writing Credits: John Brason
Guest Cast: Mark Jones, Jonathan Scott, Adam Richens, Mark Farmer, Robert MacLeod, Ernest C. Jennings, John Peel, Simon Page & Nicholas Geake

• Movies

The Great Escape (1963)

• Television

Enemy at the Door (1978 - 1980)
Spy-Catcher (1959 - 1961)
Moonstrike (1963)
A Family at War (1970 - 1972)
Kessler (1981)
'Allo 'Allo! (1982 - 1992)
Wish Me Luck (1987 - 1990)
Fairly Secret Army (1984)