
Enemy at the Door (1978)
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Simon Lack as Major Freidel
Episodes 21
By Order of the Fuhrer
The first episode of a television drama series based on the occupation by the Nazis of the Channel Islands during the Second World War. This episode focuses on 1940.
Read MoreThe Librarian
Part 2: Cecily Brown, the librarian, tries to stop the Nazi destruction of books.
Read MoreAfter the Ball
The Germans arrange a dance. But the propaganda exercise misfires and a soldier goes on trial.
Read MoreThe Laws and Usages of War
British troops attempt an amphibious assault on Guernsey.
Read MoreThe Polish Affaire
Winter 1940. To counteract cold and hunger, the islanders plan to present an Ivor Novello comedy. But echoes of a death in Latvia seven years ago disturb the plans.
Read MoreOfficers of the Law
A new German drug is needed to save the life of a Guernsey boy. Some of the tablets go missing.
Read MorePains and Penalties
Edward Bree and his mother are evicted to make way for a gun emplacement.
Read MoreThe Prussian Officer
A new adjutant arrives. He knows something about Reinicke's past.
Read MoreJudgement of Solomon
Last programme in the first season. A British destroyer has been sunk by a new, fast German torpedo boat. Clare Martel and Petere Porteous are determined top get details of the vessel to London.
Read MoreCall of the Dead
Dr Martel has been sent to a French prison. A new Commander-in-Chief has been appointed on Guernsey.
Read MoreReception for the General
Foster-Smythe has replaced Martel on the civilian controlling committee. His attitude is dangerously cavalier.
Read MoreAngels That Soar Above
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No Quarter Given
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.
Read MoreCommittee Man
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?
Read MoreFrom a View to a Death
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.
Read MoreThe Education of Nils Borg
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".
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