Secret Army Season 1

Secret Army Season 1 is currently streaming on major platforms, and it earns its set pieces rather than just delivering them. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. 14 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. Bernard Hepton brings a physicality to the role that elevates every sequence. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Secret Army Season 1 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Secret Army Season 1 understands that stakes only matter if you care who is at risk. Season 1 of Secret Army includes 16 episodes. It aired from September 1977 to December 1977. This season stars Bernard Hepton, Angela Richards and Christopher Neame. Bernard Hepton and Angela Richards lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1977. The geography of every set piece in Secret Army Season 1 is legible, which is rarer in the genre than it should be. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

Secret Army Season 1 is the kind of thing you put on to unwind and find yourself sitting forward twenty minutes in. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Bernard Hepton is the obvious draw, but the supporting cast gives the action the context it needs to land. The action holds up because the character work underneath it never lets up.

🎬 Secret Army Season 1 — Episode Guide

Lisa-Codename Yvette

1977-09-07

Lifeline, a Brussels-based resistance organisation smuggling downed RAF fliers back to Britain, is endangered when Luftwaffe Major Erwin Brandt blows one of their safehouses. Meanwhile Brandt finds assistance from Gestapo Sturnbannfuhrer Ludwig Kessler, transferred from Berlin to crack down on the ...

Sergeant on the Run

1977-09-14

Albert and Lisa continue to be suspicious of Curtis, whilst Lifeline is stretched to its limit trying to deal with several evaders. Meanwhile the Germans capture one evader, Sergeant Walker, who has travelled down the line and is familiar with several of Lifeline’s personnel.

Radishes With Butter

1977-09-21

The Jewish population of Brussels is being systemically deported according to colour-coded identification papers developed by the Germans. Curtis becomes involved with a Jewish family hiding out in the city and asks Lisa if Lifeline can help, but Lisa is unwilling to put the line, which is supposed ...

Child's Play

1977-09-28

An American airman has written a magazine article about his experiences being shot down in Europe and getting back home with the help of the evasion lines. British Intelligence has blocked the article’s publication, but Brandt has managed to obtain a copy from German intelligence based in America. S...

Second Chance

1977-10-05

The safety of Lifeline is at risk when Albert deduces that the Candide is being watched by a Gestapo spy, while Lisa continues to resent Curtis’ presence and his domineering take-charge manner. A wounded RAF evader, Finch, finds sanctuary with Hans Van Broecken, a Dutchman who lives on a barge with ...

Growing Up

1977-10-12

Lifeline’s latest intake of evaders have been forced to leave a wounded colleague behind, hidden in a barn, but Lisa and Albert are unable to make a move due to heavy German activity in that area. The wounded evader, Sergeant Howson, is befriended and helped by a young boy, Jean-Paul Dornes, but How...

Lost Sheep

1977-10-19

Flight Lieutenant Peter Romsey, a RAF navigator, is one of Lifeline’s latest customers and London are anxious for his swift return – his technical knowledge of the Oboe navigation system is vitally important. Natalie takes Romsey and other evaders down the line, but Romsey is separated from the othe...

Guilt

1977-10-26

In the aftermath of the Romsey business, a German newspaper publishes British military secrets. Curtis decides that the traitor must be found and dealt with. He travels to France and retraces Romsey’s steps. Meanwhile, Albert is still suspicious of Curtis and decides that once he is away from Brusse...

Too Near Home

1977-11-02

When Lisa Colbert is arrested whilst meeting a contact near Paris, the whole future of Lifeline is put at risk. This also leads to her uncle being arrested and interrogated by Kessler. Whilst in prison, Lisa must decide whether she can trust her fellow inmates who claim to know who she is and how th...

E10

Identity In Doubt

1977-11-09

With so many evaders, Lifeline’s resources are once more stretched to the limit and they must watch their backs after recent events. Jacques and Natalie are dispatched to check out a young South African evader, Noel Uys, and have to consider eliminating him when his answers to their questions fail t...

E11

A Question Of Loyalty

1977-11-23

A British bomber crash lands somewhere outside Brussels, its entire crew is apparently dead. Kessler takes this as an opportunity to infiltrate Lifeline and assigns Ernst Stoller, an officer who was born and brought up in England, to substitute for one of the dead men. Meanwhile, Monique is becoming...

E12

Hymn To Freedom

1977-11-30

Lifeline once again must tread carefully when one of their safehouses is blown. Meanwhile, Van Reijn, a minister in the puppet Belgian government, wants to defect to England and contacts Curtis. Curtis tries to persuade Lisa to let Van Reijn be sent down the line, citing the propaganda value of such...

E13

Bait

1977-12-07

The citizens of Brussels are ordered to celebrate the Fuhrer’s impending birthday, and Albert and the others are suspected of being collaborators when they must hang a Nazi flag outside the Candide. Meanwhile, a man claiming to be an RAF evader approaches Catherine Bidout, an elderly English woman w...

E14

Good Friday

1977-12-14

As Easter approaches, a monk from a local order, Father Girard, visits the Candide to hear Andree’s confession and also overhears a conversation about an evader. He offers his assistance to Lisa, who gratefully agrees that the airman can be hidden in the abbey over Easter. At the abbey, the head of ...

E15

Suspicions

1977-12-21

Following up a lead in their continuing investigations to crack the evasion lines, Kessler and Brandt examine the details of a recent murder case in France with Curtis, in his cover as a travelling salesman, as their prime suspect. Believing Curtis to be part of the resistance, Brandt and Kessler vi...

E16

Be The First Kid On Your Block To Rule The World.

1977-12-29

Curtis’ cover has been blown and Kessler knows that he is part of the resistance. To avoid endangering the others, Curtis goes to ground in Brussels. Knowing that Lifeline is at last in his sights, Kessler orders that all routes out of the city are blocked and co-ordinates a house-to-house search th...

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