2 Season
28 Episode
Colditz - Season 1 Episode 3 Name, Rank and Number
The bruised and unconscious body of submariner Lieutenant Dick Player is washed up on a beach somewhere in France. He is wearing plain clothes and speaks fluent German, which makes his captors believe he may be a spy. He escapes from the hospital where he is taken to recover but is recaptured and interviewed by the Gestapo. Player had once lived in Germany as the son of a diplomat and manages to get to speak to a childhood friend – now an important government official who offers Dick a chance to work with a plot to overthrow Hitler, but at a price.
- Year: 1974
- Country:
- Genre: Drama, War & Politics
- Studio: BBC One
- Keyword: world war ii, pow escape, 1940s
- Director: Gerard Glaister
- Cast: David McCallum, Bernard Hepton, Christopher Neame, Edward Hardwicke, Peter Penry-Jones, Jack Hedley