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A young boy finds a wounded airman hiding in a barn. Rashly, the airman gives the boy a gift and puts Lifeline at risk.

Dominic Sandbrook&#39;s &#39;The 70&#39;s&#39; has just finished on B.B.C.-2. After viewing the excellent opening episode, I immediately placed an order with Amazon for his new book &#39;Seasons In The Sun&#39;, but then the remaining episodes descended into hoary clichés about strikes and power cuts, and I cancelled the order. Dominic seems to have researched his series by watching old Tory party political broadcasts ( remember them? Pythonesque-affairs about men in bowler hats walking backwards! ). I wish Five would repeat its excellent &#39;The 70&#39;s: The Decade That Was&#39; to show him how it should be done. With the money I saved from buying the book, I bought Season 1 of &#39;Secret Army&#39;. Unfairly remembered in some quarters as the show that inspired &#39;Allo, Allo&#39;, it is in fact one of the jewels in the B.B.C.&#39;s crown. &#39;Growing Up&#39;, the sixth episode, was written by Willis Hall, co-creator of &#39;Budgie&#39; and co-author ( with Keith Waterhouse ) of the film and television versions of &#39;Billy Liar&#39;. Hall was a talented writer who could turn his hand from comedy and drama to children&#39;s television ( &#39;Worzel Gummidge&#39; ). An R.A.F. sergeant, &#39;Clifford Howson&#39; ( Norman Eshley ) is shot down over Belgium. His fellow crew members wind up with the Resistance, but Howson gets separated. He meets a young boy &#39;Jean-Paul Dornes&#39; ( Max Harris, no relation to the film and television composer ), and requests help. The boy runs home to tell his mother, &#39;Anna&#39; ( Susan Tracy ), but she is ( ahem! ) entertaining an obese German Corporal by the name of &#39;Emil Schnoril&#39; ( Brian Glover ). Finding Howson&#39;s R.A.F. badge in his possession, his teacher informs the Resistance. &#39;Lifeline&#39; launches a plan to get Howson to a hospital under the very noses of the Germans... This is an excellent episode, full of suspense and with a genuinely shocking denouement. Good performances too, particularly from Harris as the boy whose assistance to the injured R.A.F. man ultimately costs him his mother&#39;s life. Only Brian Glover&#39;s German is a bit hard to take, as one is used to seeing him in comedy roles such as dimwitted inmate &#39;Heslop&#39; in &#39;Porridge&#39;, but he does not unduly damage the show. One of its main assets at this time was Christopher Neame as &#39;Curtis&#39;, the British officer assigned to liaise with Lifeline. The late Vivien Merchant makes a fleeting appearance as &#39;Mlle.Gunet&#39;.

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As of November 2021, the series is being screened on the Talking Pictures TV channel in the UK. I would also like to point out that this is my first viewing of the series since the late 1970&#39;s, when I was too young to remember much about it. This particular episode, screened on Sunday 1st November 2021, is the first one I have seen that I would not give ten out of ten for, as it is somewhat implausible. Earlier on in the same episode, we see the boy&#39;s mother (who has been widowed) having a relationship with a German soldier. If this had happened she would have been ostracised by her neighbours but we do not see any such reactions. Of course, such liasions did happen in countries occupied by the Nazis but the women involved were usually much younger and tended to live in large towns rather than the small, close-knit village of Emines. This doesn&#39;t amount to being a goof, but it does strain credibility a little. I have to say that I have otherwise been very impressed with series, particularly the realism of the outdoor scenes (Emines is actually a real place in Belgium, and having visited that country many times myself, I can assure you that the locations look very authentic)

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