Colditz Castle was a highly secured prison, housing British prisoners of war from 1940 to 1945. Despite numerous escape attempts, the prisoners were ultimately liberated by American forces in 1945.
Prisoners at Colditz Castle attempted to escape from 1940 to 1945, during which time the castle held high-risk and influential prisoners.
Aired: Oct 19, 1972Following the British retreat at Dunkirk in 1940, Captain Pat Grant is one of...
Aired: Oct 26, 1972In May 1940, Flight Lieutenant Simon Carter, recently married, argues with hi...
Aired: Nov 2, 1972Dick Player, a Royal Navy lieutenant, is washed up on a beach bleeding and in...
Aired: Nov 9, 1972American Phil Carrington arrives at Colditz as Lieutenant-Colonel Preston tak...
Aired: Nov 16, 1972The new security officer Hauptmann Franz Ullman comes to Colditz to replace t...
Aired: Nov 23, 1972Phil Carrington is put in with the British prisoners, who are resentful and s...
Aired: Nov 30, 1972When a lorry drives into the courtyard at Colditz, Player is chosen to be smu...
Aired: Dec 7, 1972When several seemingly fool-proof escape attempts are thwarted by Ullmann, it...
Aired: Dec 14, 1972On a visit to the dentist in the town, Player learns that one of the German g...
Aired: Dec 21, 1972RAF officer George Marsh, who had worked in a psychiatric hospital prior to t...
Aired: Dec 28, 1972Martinet Dr. Starb arrives at the castle, a stickler for discipline who insis...
Aired: Jan 4, 1973A German corporal is found dead in the camp's parcels room. The German soldie...
Aired: Jan 11, 1973On hearing that his wife is leaving him for another man by whom she is pregna...
14. Gone Away: Part 1 - Gone Away
Aired: Jan 18, 1973When Ullmann complains that the prisoners' possessions are cluttering up thei...
15. Gone Away: Part 2 - With the Wild Geese
Aired: Jan 25, 1973With the prisoners' band playing to provide noise cover and warn of any dange...
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