Enemy at the Door

Enemy at the Door (1978)




Episodes List

Ep.1 By Order of the Fuhrer

Air Date: 1978-01-21

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.

Ep.2 The Librarian

Air Date: 1978-01-28

Part 2: Cecily Brown, the librarian, tries to stop the Nazi destruction of books.

Ep.3 After the Ball

Air Date: 1978-02-04

The Germans arrange a dance. But the propaganda exercise misfires and a soldier goes on trial.

Ep.4 Steel Hand from the Sea

Air Date: 1978-02-11

A British landing on Guernsey goes tragically awry.

Ep.5 The Laws and Usages of War

Air Date: 1978-02-18

British troops attempt an amphibious assault on Guernsey.

Ep.6 'V' for Victory

Air Date: 1978-02-25

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.

Ep.7 The Polish Affaire

Air Date: 1978-03-04

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.

Ep.8 Officers of the Law

Air Date: 1978-03-11

A new German drug is needed to save the life of a Guernsey boy. Some of the tablets go missing.

Ep.9 The Jerrybag

Air Date: 1978-03-18

A German soldier and an Island girl fall in love.

Ep.10 Treason

Air Date: 1978-03-25

A German general arrives on a secret mission.

Ep.11 Pains and Penalties

Air Date: 1978-04-01

Edward Bree and his mother are evicted to make way for a gun emplacement.

Ep.12 The Prussian Officer

Air Date: 1978-04-08

A new adjutant arrives. He knows something about Reinicke's past.

Ep.13 Judgement of Solomon

Air Date: 1978-04-15

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.