Enemy at the Door (1978)
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Richard Heffer as Peter Porteous
Episodes 16
By Order of the Fuhrer
The first episode of a television drama series based on the occupation by the Nazis of the Channel Islands during the Second World War. This episode focuses on 1940.
Read MoreThe Librarian
Part 2: Cecily Brown, the librarian, tries to stop the Nazi destruction of books.
Read MoreSteel Hand from the Sea
A British landing on Guernsey goes tragically awry.
Read MoreThe Laws and Usages of War
British troops attempt an amphibious assault on Guernsey.
Read More'V' for Victory
Winter 1940, during the Nazi Occupation of the Channel Islands. The Kommandant orders a crackdown on civil disobedience. A young boy unwittingly aids the Germans.
Read MoreThe Polish Affaire
Winter 1940. To counteract cold and hunger, the islanders plan to present an Ivor Novello comedy. But echoes of a death in Latvia seven years ago disturb the plans.
Read MoreThe Jerrybag
A German soldier and an Island girl fall in love.
Read MorePains and Penalties
Edward Bree and his mother are evicted to make way for a gun emplacement.
Read MoreThe Prussian Officer
A new adjutant arrives. He knows something about Reinicke's past.
Read MoreJudgement of Solomon
Last programme in the first season. A British destroyer has been sunk by a new, fast German torpedo boat. Clare Martel and Petere Porteous are determined top get details of the vessel to London.
Read MorePost Mortem
His prison sentence completed, farmer Peter Porteous returns to Nazi-occupied Guernsey to settle an old score. But his encounter with Teddy Lupus leads to a murder charge - and a moral dilemma for Philip Martel.
Read MoreThe Right Blood
The visit by a high-ranking SS officer to Nazi-occupied Guernsey on a mysterious personal mission gives Reinicke a chance to ingratiate himself, but it brings tragedy for Betty Ridge.
Read MoreFrom a View to a Death
While working on the construction of a German gun site in Nazi-occupied Guernsey, a Russian prisoner of war kills a guard and escapes. But those who shelter him run terrible risks.
Read MoreThe Education of Nils Borg
April 1943 in the Nazi-occupied Channel Islands. A neutral Swedish journalist arrives in Guernsey at the invitation of Goebbels to gather material for an article on what the Germans regard as a "model occupation".
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