Secret Army
Secret Army
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Secret Army

7.5 / 10
1977
3 seasons
43 episodes
DramaWar & Politics

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

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Secret Army - Resistance Fighters Ambushed

Seasons

  • Lisa-Codename Yvette

    1.Lisa-Codename Yvette

    07-09-1977

    Lifeline, a Brussels-based resistance organisation smuggling downed RAF fliers back to Britain, is endangered when Luftwaffe Major Erwin Brandt blows one of their safehouses. Mean...

  • Sergeant on the Run

    2.Sergeant on the Run

    14-09-1977

    Albert and Lisa continue to be suspicious of Curtis, whilst Lifeline is stretched to its limit trying to deal with several evaders. Meanwhile the Germans capture one evader, Serge...

  • Radishes With Butter

    3.Radishes With Butter

    21-09-1977

    The Jewish population of Brussels is being systemically deported according to colour-coded identification papers developed by the Germans. Curtis becomes involved with a Jewish fam...

  • Child's Play

    4.Child's Play

    28-09-197751m

    An American airman has written a magazine article about his experiences being shot down in Europe and getting back home with the help of the evasion lines. British Intelligence has...

  • Second Chance

    5.Second Chance

    05-10-1977

    The safety of Lifeline is at risk when Albert deduces that the Candide is being watched by a Gestapo spy, while Lisa continues to resent Curtis’ presence and his domineering take-c...

  • Growing Up

    6.Growing Up

    12-10-1977

    Lifeline’s latest intake of evaders have been forced to leave a wounded colleague behind, hidden in a barn, but Lisa and Albert are unable to make a move due to heavy German activi...

  • Lost Sheep

    7.Lost Sheep

    19-10-1977

    Flight Lieutenant Peter Romsey, a RAF navigator, is one of Lifeline’s latest customers and London are anxious for his swift return – his technical knowledge of the Oboe navigation...

  • Guilt

    8.Guilt

    26-10-1977

    In the aftermath of the Romsey business, a German newspaper publishes British military secrets. Curtis decides that the traitor must be found and dealt with. He travels to France a...

  • Too Near Home

    9.Too Near Home

    02-11-1977

    When Lisa Colbert is arrested whilst meeting a contact near Paris, the whole future of Lifeline is put at risk. This also leads to her uncle being arrested and interrogated by Kess...

  • Identity In Doubt

    10.Identity In Doubt

    09-11-1977

    With so many evaders, Lifeline’s resources are once more stretched to the limit and they must watch their backs after recent events. Jacques and Natalie are dispatched to check out...

  • A Question Of Loyalty

    11.A Question Of Loyalty

    23-11-1977

    A British bomber crash lands somewhere outside Brussels, its entire crew is apparently dead. Kessler takes this as an opportunity to infiltrate Lifeline and assigns Ernst Stoller,...

  • Hymn To Freedom

    12.Hymn To Freedom

    30-11-1977

    Lifeline once again must tread carefully when one of their safehouses is blown. Meanwhile, Van Reijn, a minister in the puppet Belgian government, wants to defect to England and co...

  • Bait

    13.Bait

    07-12-1977

    The citizens of Brussels are ordered to celebrate the Fuhrer’s impending birthday, and Albert and the others are suspected of being collaborators when they must hang a Nazi flag ou...

  • Good Friday

    14.Good Friday

    14-12-1977

    As Easter approaches, a monk from a local order, Father Girard, visits the Candide to hear Andree’s confession and also overhears a conversation about an evader. He offers his assi...

  • Suspicions

    15.Suspicions

    21-12-1977

    Following up a lead in their continuing investigations to crack the evasion lines, Kessler and Brandt examine the details of a recent murder case in France with Curtis, in his cove...

  • Be The First Kid On Your Block To Rule The World.

    16.Be The First Kid On Your Block To Rule The World.

    7.0
    29-12-1977

    Curtis’ cover has been blown and Kessler knows that he is part of the resistance. To avoid endangering the others, Curtis goes to ground in Brussels. Knowing that Lifeline is at la...

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