4 great actors in this series.....Kommandant....Mohne....Col Preston....Ullmann

Bernard Heptons role as Kommandant is second to none. This episode shows the humanity that underlay the dutiful soldier with the man who is a father and husband. He was never a tyrant but also knew that genuine authority is earned through respect and impartiality.

Bernard Hepton is a superb actor, but he was exceptional in this episode.

I've done nothing but binge watch this series for the last 3 days! I became interested in Colditz when remembering classic films from childhood with my friend.... Escape from Colditz was one film I remembered.....

Imagine being part of three iconic 70s tv series. Tinker tailor soldier spy Colditz Secret Army. Bernard Hepton.

Brilliant acting from Bernard Hepton.

I think it's more than worth pointing out to anyone watching this program that the "Colditz Glider" could and did fly! A replica was built using Goldfinch's original sketches and detailed input in 1999. The glider (which was actually nicknamed "The Colditz Cock") and it flew "perfectly". Bill Goldfinch along with about a dozen veterans who worked on the glider were in attendance and witnessed the test flight, "looking on with great pride." Now that's what I call a happy ending! :)

From about 34:00 on, so incredibly moving and poignant. The grief over their son's death is palpable. Their pain could power the Sun.

Wonderful television. Well worth a revisit. Superbly acted by all.

a number of the same actors and team went onto make "Secret Army"- a great series as well

The most dramatic and would say best Colditz episode

I'd forgotten just how good this series is.

My Nanna watched this when she was my age and now I am watching it 😄

Great acting from Bernard Hepton.

Bernard Hepton brilliant here.

Bernard Hepton brilliant actor

Thank you for uploading this episode. What a briliant show.

I recall seeing a documentary a few years ago where the glider was recreated according to the original plans, and put on a test flight. It flew perfectly.

Brilliant acting from the actors playing Germans

Thank you very much for uploading all the episodes of this excelent drama.Superb acting throughout both season 1 and 2 .

colonel preston i feel is on par with bernard epton in the actors stakes..jack hedley is such a specimen of a fine actor

Ten past midnight, great novel with Colditz playing a small yet significant part

Really great. Thank you.

I dint want this series to end

Thank you.

This series stands the test of time...I remember watching it first time round on tv...and read the books out of interest...Still have an old Escape from Colditz paper back on my shelf.... Superlative acting. Brilliantly written. I agree with the outstanding actors from this series. My personal favourites: The Kommandant and Ullman, Mohn and Carter. And of course Edward Hardwicke as ''P.R. Reid''...Loved his Colditz and the Latter Days book.... I'm a bit biased towards David McCallum though. ;) :)

Actually, Dresden had quite a number of war material factories and was a major transport hub between east and west Germany. The idea that it was a senseless attack was put out by German propaganda and later helped by the Soviets as a propaganda op against the West.

I remember a movie about this pow camp. They successfully flew that glider/plane out of the castle. As awesome as the great escape.

I read the book. Watched the movie. I want to visit Colditz.

One salient fact missed is that the silly Germans allowed Shaw to obtain at least one book on glider-making ,if not also others on aeronautics.

No mention of Mohne after he skipped town? Not one word?

5:45 My wife? You mean my husband sir! 😂 nice one for the upload MW 👍😎

I’ve been and seen colddiz it is so interesting a must visit place

a classic well writen moveing , regarding both sides

Excellent subtitles, for anyone that cares about that.

"They wouldn't bomb it for nothing...", laughter!

Such a great shame the Glider was never found, probably broke up for firewood in post-war Colditz.

anytime I watch it I hope they launch the glider... get disappointed every time :D

At 9.20 - Paul Chapman as Captain George Brent. Better known, perhaps, as Stephen Johnson in the TV series, As Time Goes By By the stage of the War represented here, there were no "elite Waffen SS Divisions" worthy of the name left.

I've seen this series several times since the 70's and have to agree with some - but only some of the quality of the actors: Jack Hedley (Col Preston) Hans Meyer (Ullman), Tony Valentine (Mohne), and Bernard Hepton (Kommandant); all played their characters superbly. I was disappointed with David McCallum as FO Carter; for the most part of the series he played the part of a petulant schoolboy, and as far as the storyline went, his character behaved outrageously against his superior officers, something I never read in the book. While he was Escape Officer he "outranked" his seniors, which was his right. The trouble was he used that limited authority in every other dealing, for which he would have been severely reprimanded. In short, he showed unrestrained contempt to everyone who opposed him, and in particular to his most senior officer, the Squadron Leader. It never would have happened. Be that as it may, the series was exceptionally good with one overriding complaint: Why, why, why, do we always have to have Americans taking lead roles in British productions? As far as I can recall from Pat Reid's book, the Americans played little to no real part in the Colditz story, yet we had (for a 70's production) a top American star in the person of Robert Wagner (Carrington), and later, Dan O'Herlihy (Colonel Dodd). O'Herlihy couldn't have convinced me he was an actor, let alone an American Colonel, he was so pathetic! However, that's me being a critic. I can only guess that the cost of the series was pretty much covered by the Americans, who don't pay for British films unless they have American actors (OK, so McCallum is a Canadian), but the point was made. The curious thing is that another film or series on Colditz was made some time after this one, with the prime actor being John Mills. I happen to like Mills, but you can always guarantee that he over-acts most roles. Unfortunately, I seem to remember thinking that it wasn't very good!!!

tony shaws flight was top secrete the irony haha

So they built a mock up gilder for the TV series as well, I wonder where it is now?

it's fataly easy to get started in a war ...

What happened to Mohn? Wasn't he trapped inside the barbed wire at the end of the last episode?

I would like to see that episode where two allied soldiers escaped from Colditz to neutral Switzerland. Pl let me know the name of the episode.

LAS SERIES PUEDEN PASARLAS PERFECTO CASTELLANO O ENLATINO ESPAÑOL

35:00 and the nazis we re so confident before.

Why the subtitles? It's not as if the actors speak bad English.

OMG, WHAT G GREAT Show/Episode!,, I LOVE That Commondant!!! I’d serve under that Nazi any day!!!! But, that Hitler guy is like alway SO mad & angry, sometimes, he can be a Real Jerk

So the prisoners have a radio?

Episodes 10 and 11? Where?

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