Colditz (TV series)

Colditz was a British television series, broadcast between 1972 to 1974 and is about prisoners of war during the Second World War are incarcerated in Oflag IV-C in Colditz Castle and try to escape. The series was a co-production between the BBC and Universal Studios. In Netherlands, the series was broadcast under the same title.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Colditz is based on real events. During the Second World War were imprisoned by the Germans in prisoner of war camps, the so-called martial Stalags. Stalag is an abbreviation for Stammlager (main camp) which in itself is an abbreviation of "Mannschaftsstamm-und Criminal bearing". Officers who tried to escape from a Stalag or otherwise as difficult prisoners was transferred to the infamous Colditz. A prison that was seen by the Germans as a place from which escape was impossible. Colditz is the name of a town between Leipzig and Dresden in Saxony and the castle there. The castle had in the war the name Oflag IV C. Oflag stands for Offizierslager and during the war, consisting of officers from France, Poland, Netherlands and the United States locked up. The series follows the attempts of the British. Other nationalities are in image, but more as extras. This last does no honour to the Dutch who actively compete in jailbreaks and also the first successful escape for their account names and also relatively most "home runs" had. Was actually the residence after an escape or at least a neutral country than that was called a home run. Because the officers did not have to do any work in an Oflag one had all the time for escapes. We see how clothing is manufactured (for example German uniform jackets), tunnels are dug, misleidingspogingen be done, paper distorted and dolls made (to hide the fact that because someone has escaped). In addition, the boredom, the fun to see (the numerous revues), despair (as the escape does not want to succeed), and the homesickness. Attempts to escape the bid but also impossible like building a glider in the attic. Not only the British are followed as well as the Germans. For example, the always so stolid Commander of Colditz hit hard as his son in Russia is run over by a tank. The series ends in 1945 with the liberation of the camp by the Americans. ==Production[ Edit] == The series was created by Brian Degas and producer Gerard Glaister. The high veracity of the series is due to the commitment of Major Pat Reid, who was hired as a historical consultant. Reid was during the war the ' escape officer ' of Colditz, the officer who presided over the jailbreaks. There were some popular actors attracted to the series more awareness. So played the well-known American actor Robert Wagner an American pilot who was shot down and interned in Colditz. David McCallum, in the 1960s, world-famous for the series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. played Flight Lieutenant Simon Carter. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Episodes[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="186" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Season 1:
 * 2 Production
 * 3 Cast
 * 4 Episodes
 * David McCallum – Flight Lieutenant Simon Carter
 * Robert Wagner – Major Phil Carrington
 * Jack Hedley – Lt. Colonel John Preston
 * Edward Harwicke – Captain Pat Grant
 * Karl Bernard Hapton – Commander
 * Anthony Valentine – Major Horst Mohn
 * Hans Meyer – Hauptmann Ulmann

<p lang="en" len="10" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Season 2:
 * The Undefeated
 * Missing, presumed dead
 * Name, rank and number
 * Welcome to Golditz
 * Maximum Security
 * The spirit of freedom
 * Lord, didn't it rain
 * The traitor
 * Bribery and corruptiom
 * Tweedledum
 * Court Martial
 * Murder?
 * The Way out
 * Gone away, part 1
 * Gone away, part 2


 * Arrival of a hero
 * Ghosts
 * Odd man in
 * The guests
 * Frogs in the well
 * Ace in the hole
 * French leave
 * The gambler
 * Senior American Officer
 * Very Important Officer
 * Chameleon
 * Death sentence
 * Liberation