Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Secret Army (TV series)

Index Secret Army (TV series)

Secret Army is a television drama made by the BBC and the Belgian national broadcaster BRT (now VRT) created by Gerard Glaister. [1]

68 relations: 'Allo 'Allo!, Amsterdam, Angela Richards, Ardennes, BBC, BBC One, Belgian Resistance, Berlin, Bernard Hepton, Christopher Neame, Clifford Rose, Colditz (TV series), Comet line, Communism, Court-martial, David Nobbs, EastEnders, Fairly Secret Army, Fay Weldon, Geoffrey Palmer (actor), Gerard Glaister, Grand Place, Gunnar Möller, Hazel McBride, Hetty Baynes, Hilary Minster, James Bree (actor), Jan Francis, John Brason, John D. Collins, John Ratzenberger, Juliet Hammond-Hill, Ken Moule, Kent Battle of Britain Museum, Kessler (TV series), Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, List of Secret Army episodes, London, Luftwaffe, Maria Charles, Marianne Stone, Michael Byrne (actor), Michael Culver, Mistress (lover), Norfolk, Novelization, Parody, Paul Shelley, Prisoner-of-war camp, Ralph Bates, ..., Robert Farnon, Robin Langford, Ron Pember, Royal Air Force, Sitcom, Special Operations Executive, Standartenführer, Stephan Chase, Stephen Yardley, Terrence Hardiman, Trisha Clarke, V-2 rocket, Valentine Dyall, Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie, Westland Lysander, WHSmith, World War II, 13 May 1945 German deserter execution. Expand index (18 more) »

'Allo 'Allo!

Allo Allo! is a BBC television British sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992, comprising 85 episodes.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and 'Allo 'Allo! · See more »

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Amsterdam · See more »

Angela Richards

Angela Richards (born 18 December 1944) is an English actress and singer, best known to television viewers for her leading role in the BBC drama Secret Army (1977–79), set during the Second World War in which she played Monique Duchamps.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Angela Richards · See more »

Ardennes

The Ardennes (L'Ardenne; Ardennen; L'Årdene; Ardennen; also known as the Ardennes Forest or Forest of Ardennes) is a region of extensive forests, rough terrain, rolling hills and ridges formed by the geological features of the Ardennes mountain range and the Moselle and Meuse River basins.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Ardennes · See more »

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and BBC · See more »

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and BBC One · See more »

Belgian Resistance

The Belgian Resistance (Résistance belge, Belgisch verzet) collectively refers to the resistance movements opposed to the German occupation of Belgium during World War II.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Belgian Resistance · See more »

Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Berlin · See more »

Bernard Hepton

Francis Bernard Heptonstall (born 19 October 1925) as stage name Bernard Hepton, is a British actor and director of stage, film and television.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Bernard Hepton · See more »

Christopher Neame

Christopher Neame (born 12 September 1947, London) is an English actor now living in the United States.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Christopher Neame · See more »

Clifford Rose

Clifford Rose (born 24 October 1929) is an English classical actor.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Clifford Rose · See more »

Colditz (TV series)

Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Colditz (TV series) · See more »

Comet line

The Comet line (Réseau Comète) was a resistance group in Belgium and France that helped Allied soldiers and airmen return to Britain during the Second World War.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Comet line · See more »

Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Communism · See more »

Court-martial

A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Court-martial · See more »

David Nobbs

David Gordon Nobbs (13 March 1935 – 8 August 2015, The Guardian, 11 September 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2015.) was an English comedy writer, best known for writing the 1970s series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted from his own novels.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and David Nobbs · See more »

EastEnders

EastEnders is a British soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since 1985.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and EastEnders · See more »

Fairly Secret Army

Fairly Secret Army is a British sitcom which ran to thirteen episodes over two series between 1984 and 1986.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Fairly Secret Army · See more »

Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon CBE FRSL (born 22 September 1931) is an English author, essayist, feminist and playwright.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Fay Weldon · See more »

Geoffrey Palmer (actor)

Geoffrey Dyson Palmer, (born 4 June 1927) is an English actor known for his roles in British television sitcoms playing Jimmy Anderson in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–79), Ben Parkinson in Butterflies (1978–83) and Lionel Hardcastle in As Time Goes By (1992–2005).

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Geoffrey Palmer (actor) · See more »

Gerard Glaister

John Leslie "Gerard" Glaister DFC (21 December 1915 – 5 February 2005) was a British television producer and director best known for his work with the BBC.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Gerard Glaister · See more »

Grand Place

The Grand Place (French,; "Grand Square"; also used in English) or Grote Markt (Dutch,; "Grand Market") is the central square of Brussels.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Grand Place · See more »

Gunnar Möller

Gunnar Möller (1 July 1928 – 16 May 2017) was a German television and film actor.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Gunnar Möller · See more »

Hazel McBride

Hazel McBride (born 24 March 1949) is a British actress known for her role as Madeleine Duclos in the BBC television drama series Secret Army.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Hazel McBride · See more »

Hetty Baynes

Henrietta Sara Louise Baynes (born 16 August 1956) is an English film, television and theatre actress.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Hetty Baynes · See more »

Hilary Minster

Roger Michael Hilary Minster (21 March 1944 – 24 November 1999) was an English character actor.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Hilary Minster · See more »

James Bree (actor)

James Rutherfoord Worsfold Thomson (20 July 1923 – 1 December 2008), known professionally as James Bree, was a British actor who appeared on stage, and played many supporting roles in both film and television.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and James Bree (actor) · See more »

Jan Francis

Janet Stephanie Francis (born 5 August 1947) is an English actress, best known for playing Penny Warrender in the 1980s romantic comedy Just Good Friends.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Jan Francis · See more »

John Brason

John Brason is a British script writer and script editor, best known for the series made in collaboration with television producer Gerard Glaister, Colditz and Secret Army, both set during World War II.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and John Brason · See more »

John D. Collins

John Christopher Dixon (born 2 December 1942, London), billed as John D. Collins, is an English actor and narrator, perhaps best known for appearing in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! in which he played Flt. Lt. Fairfax, a stranded British airman in occupied France during World War II.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and John D. Collins · See more »

John Ratzenberger

John Dezso Ratzenberger (born April 6, 1947) from Ratzenberger's official website is an American actor, voice actor, and entrepreneur.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and John Ratzenberger · See more »

Juliet Hammond-Hill

Juliet Hammond-Hill (born 13 November 1953) is an English actress, best known for her role as Natalie Chantrens in all three series of the BBC drama series Secret Army (1977–79) and its 1981 sequel Kessler.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Juliet Hammond-Hill · See more »

Ken Moule

Kenneth John Moule (26 June 1925 – 27 January 1986) was an English jazz pianist, best known as a composer and arranger.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Ken Moule · See more »

Kent Battle of Britain Museum

The Kent Battle of Britain Museum is located on the former RAF Hawkinge, a World War II airfield 4 miles inland from Folkestone, England.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Kent Battle of Britain Museum · See more »

Kessler (TV series)

Kessler is a television series produced by the BBC in 1981, starring Clifford Rose in the title role.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Kessler (TV series) · See more »

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes), or simply the Knight's Cross (Ritterkreuz), and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross · See more »

List of Secret Army episodes

This is a complete episode list for the BBC television series Secret Army, which ran for three series from 7 September 1977 until 15 December 1979.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and List of Secret Army episodes · See more »

London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and London · See more »

Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Luftwaffe · See more »

Maria Charles

Maria Charles (born 22 September 1929) is an English film, television and stage actress, director and comedian.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Maria Charles · See more »

Marianne Stone

Marianne Stone (23 August 1922 – 21 December 2009) was an English character actress.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Marianne Stone · See more »

Michael Byrne (actor)

Michael Byrne (born 7 November 1943) is an English actor noted for his roles in the National Theatre, Hollywood films, and television shows.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Michael Byrne (actor) · See more »

Michael Culver

Michael Culver (born 16 June 1938) is an English actor.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Michael Culver · See more »

Mistress (lover)

A mistress is a relatively long-term female lover and companion who is not married to her partner, especially when her partner is married to someone else.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Mistress (lover) · See more »

Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Norfolk · See more »

Novelization

A novelization (or novelisation) is a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, comic book or video game.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Novelization · See more »

Parody

A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Parody · See more »

Paul Shelley

Paul Shelley (born Paul Matthews, 15 May 1942) is an English actor.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Paul Shelley · See more »

Prisoner-of-war camp

A prisoner-of-war camp is a site for the containment of enemy combatants captured by a belligerent power in time of war.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Prisoner-of-war camp · See more »

Ralph Bates

Ralph Bates (12 February 1940 – 27 March 1991) was an English film and television actor, known for his role in the British sitcom Dear John and for being one of Hammer Horror's best-known actors from the latter period of the company.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Ralph Bates · See more »

Robert Farnon

Robert Joseph Farnon CM (July 24, 1917April 23, 2005) was a Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Robert Farnon · See more »

Robin Langford

Robin W. J. Langford (12 September 1953 – 22 November 2014) was an English actor, writer and director.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Robin Langford · See more »

Ron Pember

Ron Pember (born 11 April 1934) is a British actor, stage director and dramatist, best known for his role as Alain Muny in the 1970s BBC drama series Secret Army.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Ron Pember · See more »

Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Royal Air Force · See more »

Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Sitcom · See more »

Special Operations Executive

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British World War II organisation.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Special Operations Executive · See more »

Standartenführer

Standartenführer ("standard leader") was a Nazi Party (NSDAP) paramilitary rank that was used in several NSDAP organizations, such as the SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Standartenführer · See more »

Stephan Chase

Stephan Chase is a British actor of Cornish and Scots descent.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Stephan Chase · See more »

Stephen Yardley

Stephen Yardley (born 24 March 1942) is an English actor, known for his work on British television between 1965 and 2004.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Stephen Yardley · See more »

Terrence Hardiman

Terrence Hardiman (born 6 April 1937) is an English actor.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Terrence Hardiman · See more »

Trisha Clarke

Trisha Clarke is a British actress, best known for her role as barmaid Geneviève in the 1970s BBC drama series Secret Army.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Trisha Clarke · See more »

V-2 rocket

The V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and V-2 rocket · See more »

Valentine Dyall

Valentine Dyall (7 May 1908 – 24 June 1985) was an English character actor.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Valentine Dyall · See more »

Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie

The Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (Flemish Radio and Television Broadcasting Organization), or VRT, is the national public-service broadcaster for the Flemish Region and Community of Belgium.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie · See more »

Westland Lysander

The Westland Lysander (nickname the "Lizzie") is a British army co-operation and liaison aircraft produced by Westland Aircraft used immediately before and during the Second World War.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and Westland Lysander · See more »

WHSmith

WHSmith PLC (also known as WHS or colloquially as Smith's, and formerly W. H. Smith & Son) is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, Wiltshire, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionary.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and WHSmith · See more »

World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and World War II · See more »

13 May 1945 German deserter execution

The 13 May 1945 German deserter execution occurred five days after the capitulation of Nazi Germany along with the Wehrmacht armed forces in World War II, when an illegal court martial, composed of the captured and disarmed German officers kept under Allied guard in Amsterdam, imposed a death sentence upon two of the former German deserters from the Kriegsmarine, Bruno Dorfer and.

New!!: Secret Army (TV series) and 13 May 1945 German deserter execution · See more »

Redirects here:

Secret Army (television).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Army_(TV_series)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »