Secret Army - London Live (Freeview Channel 8)

[Stephen Byers]

Does anyone know anything about this documentary series of 6 (or7) programmes about the real Dad's Army?

This is not the same as the BBC drama series 'Secret Army' about British or Belgium resistance during the WW2.

I think the doco. series dates from 1977. But there doesn't seem to be any info. about it on the web. 

Details for this weekend are here:

www.tvguide.co.uk/titlesearch.asp?title=Secret+Army

Secret Army is on TV this week ...

London Live 6:00pm Sun 27 Sep
Season 1 Episode 5 of 6

Invasion Imminent Peter Williams tells the story of the resistance movement set up around the coast by Winston Churchill to harass the enemy, recalling how, as Hitler prepared to invade, the secret army went underground along the south and East Anglian coasts
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London Live 6:30pm Sun 27 Sep
Season 1 Episode 6 of 6

Secret Sweeties Peter Williams tells the story of the women who were recruited to join the British Resistance movement and helped deceive Hitler into thinking the D-Day Allied invasion of France would come across the Straits of Dover
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London Live 5:00am Mon 28 Sep
Season 1 Episode 5 of 6

Invasion Imminent Peter Williams tells the story of the resistance movement set up around the coast by Winston Churchill to harass the enemy, recalling how, as Hitler prepared to invade, the secret army went underground along the south and East Anglian coasts
See full details

London Live 5:30am Mon 28 Sep
Season 1 Episode 6 of 6

Secret Sweeties Peter Williams tells the story of the women who were recruited to join the British Resistance movement and helped deceive Hitler into thinking the D-Day Allied invasion of France would come across the Straits of Dover
See full details

London Live 6:00pm Sun 4 Oct
Season 1 Episode 7 of 6

Britain stood alone in 1940 facing the might of the all-conquering German forces but Winston Churchill had an idea. He set up an Underground Army of farmers teenagers women and veterans from WW1
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[Stephen Byers]

OK - here's the details ...

Peter Williams Television on Vimeo

vimeo.com/pwtv/about

He also made DOODLEBUG SUMMER on Hitler’s wartime Vengeance Weapons, the V1 and V2, and SECRET ARMY, on Britain’s underground resistance in 1940 (for Meridian, LWT and the History Channel}, ....

www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Army/dp/B07DPVL29Q

Series 1

Episodes

1. In the Beginning

In 1940, Hitler was poised to invade Britain. This is the hitherto untold story of the British Resistance movement, set up around the coast, by Winston Churchill.

2. Let the Bastards Come

The Top Secret Underground bases of Britain's Resistance Movement - and the farm-workers, gamekeepers and schoolboys who learned how to handle machine-guns and explosives as they waited for the Germans to invade.

3. And the Sea Caught Fire

The men of Britain's Top Secret Resistance movement are taught the skills of sabotage - and, in Kent, Stan Hayward falls in love.

4. Bangs and Blood

Hitler finalizes his plans to invade Britain - and the men of Churchill's Top Secret Resistance Movement consult their instruction manuals on explosives and silent killing.

5. Invasion Imminent

Hitler is poised to invade Britain - and the Church bells ring in Kent and Sussex, Hampshire and Essex, East Anglia and Dorset as the Resistance Movement prepare to go underground.

6. Secret Sweeties

The women who joined the Top Secret British Resistance Units - and their part in the D-Day deception that fooled Hitler into thinking that the Allies would strike back across the Straits of Dover.

7. Execution

The men of Britain's Top Secret Resistance Movement who parachuted with the SAS into France at D-Day - and the massacre of 35 men in a French woodland.

8. Reflections

Members of the British Resistance Movement, the Auxiliary Units reflect on "the most vivid days" of their lives - and the story of the Werewolves, the Nazi fanatics who tried to form a German underground resistance, as the allies advanced through Europe.

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