British TV: Enemy at the Door: Episode 1

Just after France fell during WWII, in 1940, the English military evacuated the Channel Islands - in particular Guernsey. The German military move in and occupied it themselves. They stayed there for 5 years - trapped, as the war went against the Germans, and ended up surrendering at war's end.

In 1970, a TV series called Enemy at the Door was filmed.

English actors played both the German and English roles - and those that portrayed the Germans did not use German accents.

Here's a few screencaps from episode 1.

The Germans arrive and introduce themselves to the island governing body

Simon Lack as Major Freidel, and Alfred Burke as Major Richter

Simon Lack.







Simon Cadell at far right, as Hauptsturmfuhrer Reinicke .












Alfred Burke as Major Richter. American audiences will be most familiar with him as Gregorio Aunty from The Avengers in "The Girl From Aunty".


Richard Hurndall is the man on the left (John Ambrose). He appears on only 2 episodes. Known to American audiences as the First Doctor in The Five Doctors (replacing the deceased William Hartnell.) Hurndall had worked with Simon Lack on the radio serial, "Paul Temple and the Van Dyke Affair". Indeed, in the last ep of this serial, Lack's character threw Hurndall's character off a train.

Bernard Horsfall as Dr. Philip Martel. He was in "The Cybernauts" as Jepthcott, and Martin Fox in "The Fear Merchants."