Enemy at the Door
Enemy at the Door: Season 1
Season 2

Air Date

January 21, 1978

Episodes

13 episodes

Enemy at the Door

Season 1

Episodes

1. By Order of the Fuhrer

January 21, 1978
60 min

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.

2. The Librarian

January 28, 1978
60 min

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

3. After the Ball

February 4, 1978
60 min

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

4. Steel Hand from the Sea

February 11, 1978
60 min

A British landing on Guernsey goes tragically awry.

5. The Laws and Usages of War

February 18, 1978
60 min

British troops attempt an amphibious assault on Guernsey.

6. 'V' for Victory

February 25, 1978
60 min

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.

7. The Polish Affaire

March 4, 1978
60 min

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.

8. Officers of the Law

March 11, 1978
60 min

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

9. The Jerrybag

March 18, 1978
60 min

A German soldier and an Island girl fall in love.

10. Treason

March 25, 1978
60 min

A German general arrives on a secret mission.

11. Pains and Penalties

April 1, 1978
60 min

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

12. The Prussian Officer

April 8, 1978
60 min

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

13. Judgement of Solomon

April 15, 1978
60 min

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.