How wonderful to have found this Gem of a series again! My dear late hubby Tony and i, had only just got married on the 29th of March 1982 and if my memory serves me well, we began watching it from the very first episode, only a few weeks after our wedding. Thank you very much from The uk for this great blast from the past! xxxxxx
I was 9 years old & still remember sitting down to watch on a Sunday evening. A while after having seafood & snacks. They was the good old days. RIP Dame Vera Lynn xx
My Dad was 82ND Airborne WWII 504, my Parents met in Leicester and married November 7,1944. My Grandfather said The Americans were over sexed,over paid and over there !!!! My Parents Had a Wonderful Life Together and I was a mid life Baby, as my Sister was born in 47, and me in 64❤❤I was Truly Blessed !!!!!
I was twenty eight and my kids were small....happy days! Now almost seventy and watching this remembering the characters like it was last Thursday.....great series! Thank You 👍
Remember this I was 15 at the time of showing and had a great interest in ww2 and Remember all these actors, the best was Ray Smith " Bloody Yaaanks " he used to say , brilliant series.
My uncle was a bomber pilot from Australia died in Italy he got his crew to bail out but the rear gun et was wounded my uncle crashed on landing the rear gunner survived my uncle died , he was 21
Loved this series when it was first on TV in the early 1980s and bought the books. Still have the books - really enjoying watching this again. Many thanks for posting.
Thanks (from Canada 🇨🇦) for the info! (My dad was in the Canadian navy - the entertainment ship that accompanied convoys. And my mother worked for British Intelligence in Washington and New York City.)
Reminds me of that joke in Are You Being Served when Mrs Slocombe was moaning about having to sell German goods "I haven't forgotten being flung flat on my back on Clapham Common by a landmine. And it was the German Air Force that was responsible." Mr. Lucas: "All the other times she was flat on her back it was the American Air Force that was responsible!"
WW2. All those young airman so apply go lucky. Most going to their deaths. I am afraid which one is not coming back from this crew. This show was recommended to me. I am solar it was, it's a really good show. Thank you for posting. .
Just finished watching Enemy at the Door series which I was thoroughly addicted to. Thankfully, I have fallen upon this drama series. Was a little surprised by the dislike of some of the Brits for the American pilots. Can understand how they might feel, however would German occupation be more palatable to the people of Suffolk, I keep thinking. This episode is VERY good. I look forward to next episodes. THANKS Rich.
Diane Vitale consider the fact that the Brits had been fighting for years losing their loved ones, surviving on strict rations and finally the flashy yanks got of their asses and decided to join the fight!!! It’s perfectly understandable that there was a level of ‘dislike’.
@@Carfilliot Consider, that Brits only truly joined the fight at the very moment Hitler knocked on their shore. They kicked whole Europe under the nazi bus before ...
You need an urgent review of your understanding of history! The British went to war with Germany in 1939, nothing to do with them being at our shores, but because Hitler invaded Poland and we had promised to protect them.
Susannah York! Yeah, BABAY, YEAH! Huzzah for Anglo-American steam heat! Thanks for this, I was working 60 hour weeks when it aired here in the Colonies and missed it... Tally-Ho! Our two nations are the beacon of Liberty Justice and lots of beer and snogging... so what could you ever want more?
2024 watching this. Their American accents are dreadful. The plot seems very similar to the Richard Gere movie “ Yanks”. I love these old period dramas. No bad language and no blood & guts horror rubbish that permeates modern “ entertainment”. Fantastic.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
The series does a good job at exposing the tensions between the USAAF and the local Brits that are often glossed over. However, I think they overdid it . . . the Americans crashing into everything possible on the roads, demanding Cuban cigars that they should have known were all gone, buzzing British farmworkers, etc. Still, the filmmakers' juxtaposition between war-weary Brits and "green," gung-ho Americans is something to be appreciated. Again, it's often missing from WWII films about the 8th AF in Britain. Though, also "again," I think the filmmakers played a little too strong.
It was not the “United States Airforce” in 1943, it was the United States Army Air Force (USAAF), they were in the army and were trained to be infantry soldiers before they became technical soldiers, so @ 4:16 she was wrong. Not a very auspicious start to the series.
Surely shopkeeper Albert Mundy (in the brown dust coat), is based upon another shopkeeper, Arkwright, played by Ronnie Barker, in the TV series, Open All Hours. German bomber, absurdly, strafes a girl in a field and a cyclist, but doesn't strafe the US bombers on the airfield
A fantastic number of babies were left behind 😉 and a good number of war brides too! The officials had some funny ideas as to which girls would adapt to life in America and who wouldn't. And young couples, who married could still leave their babies behind to start their new lives unencumbered!! My father was one of them!
@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts Today they have even more peculiar ideas about who "would adapt to life in America..." Today the leadership doesn't care about that sort of thing.
That must be a distraction for those of you who know about those intricacies. But for those of us who don’t (born and raised in Canada by parents and grandparents born and raised here) the precise nature of each accent doesn’t matter too much. It’s crystal clear who’s English and who’s American which rolls the story onward! Lol
Memphis Belle footage from the 1943 documentary to support the only flying-fortress in the series, B-17G "Sally B" in her natural metal scheme prior to her appearance in Memphis Belle some eight years later. One error I noticed possibly deliberate, was the female shop owner who refers to the newly arrived Americans as belonging to the United States Air Force (USAF) But then later on USAAF is mentioned in its entirety in a welcome speech given by Susannah York.
Nor necessarily an 'error' -- "Air Force" is a generic term for those who fly planes and drop bombs; such technicalities as the official name wasn't really a consideration at that time in common parlance, nor did it need to be.
Not every American was from New York, New Jersey, Chicago, California or the Mid-West, none of these actors were assigned to try to imitate Southern airmen or those from the West.
elizabeth sheffield I am English---though live in the States--- my hubby was in the US airforce, retired now, we married in 1984, he was stationed at RAF Wethersfield, we then lived in FL for 3 years---then we then got stationed at Lakenheath, lived in basehousing there.
Diver ForPort Many years ago we used to go to "the warren" - a sandy area viewing point above Lakenheath with our kids nd watch the F15's etc taking off and landing - dont think they'd allow that now tho!! ;>)
elizabeth sheffield I know that at some point they had issues with people trying to sue the base for them having hearing problems after watching the planes, the base house we lived in the planes flew right over our house, used to drive me nuts had to stop talking till the had all flown over(I think there was 4 of them)
The actors portraying Americans are a bit heavy handed.................... Accents are weird and very hard to figure out where these "Americans" are supposed to be from.................. LOL Just saying.
I think stereotyping was much more socially acceptable, much more popular, when this series was made than it is now. One way we have perhaps moved forward as a culture, since then?! Thanks to those who keep objecting to all that we need to change (like yourself 😊)! ❤️👌🏾🌟🤗
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How wonderful to have found this Gem of a series again! My dear late hubby Tony and i, had only just got married on the 29th of March 1982 and if my memory serves me well, we began watching it from the very first episode, only a few weeks after our wedding. Thank you very much from The uk for this great blast from the past! xxxxxx
I was 9 years old & still remember sitting down to watch on a Sunday evening. A while after having seafood & snacks. They was the good old days. RIP Dame Vera Lynn xx
My Dad was 82ND Airborne WWII 504, my Parents met in Leicester and married November 7,1944. My Grandfather said The Americans were over sexed,over paid and over there !!!! My Parents Had a Wonderful Life Together and I was a mid life Baby, as my Sister was born in 47, and me in 64❤❤I was Truly Blessed !!!!!
Nice story.👏
I remember when this series came out on PBS. We would watch it as a family. We all fell in love with it.
Just love this series, I must have watched it 5/6 times. Remember when it was first on TV, my mum always said the War years were the best of her life.
Alot of Romance.
Thank you for uploading. I recall enjoying it on tv in the early 1980’s. 👌💕
I was twenty eight and my kids were small....happy days! Now almost seventy and watching this remembering the characters like it was last Thursday.....great series! Thank You 👍
Well this will be my 1st time watching this movie from Australia & im 71yrs old🐾😂!
Me too.... Melbourne
Remember this I was 15 at the time of showing and had a great interest in ww2 and Remember all these actors, the best was Ray Smith " Bloody Yaaanks " he used to say , brilliant series.
The shop owner reminded me of the chatacter Ronnie Barker played in ' Opening All Hours '. 😊❤
This was my fav TV programme at the time so thanks for sharing.
Same! I lived for Friday nights when this was on!
My uncle was a bomber pilot from Australia died in Italy he got his crew to bail out but the rear gun et was wounded my uncle crashed on landing the rear gunner survived my uncle died , he was 21
This is a tv series i always remember. I was 8 and i loved it. I was kind of in love with Chuck 😊
Loved this series❤
Loved this series when it was first on TV in the early 1980s and bought the books. Still have the books - really enjoying watching this again. Many thanks for posting.
There are books? Which author? Can you give me titles please?
Nina....We'll Meet Again is name of the book author:- Keith Miles. There's a few on E Bay
The airfield is now Kings Hill village in Kent, and the control tower is the Kings Hill Costa Coffee.
Thanks (from Canada 🇨🇦) for the info!
(My dad was in the Canadian navy - the entertainment ship that accompanied convoys.
And my mother worked for British Intelligence in Washington and New York City.)
Watch this drama when I got newly married. Loved it and still do.
Omg I remember this the 1st time round brilliant 🤩
Excellent series
My daughter was named Holly after my husband saw it on the credits of this series
Loved watching this I was 17. Had a major crush on chuck. Ha
Reminds me of that joke in Are You Being Served when Mrs Slocombe was moaning about having to sell German goods "I haven't forgotten being flung flat on my back on Clapham Common by a landmine. And it was the German Air Force that was responsible."
Mr. Lucas: "All the other times she was flat on her back it was the American Air Force that was responsible!"
I remember Suzanna York in "The Wind And The 🦁 Lion" with Sean Connory. An excellent movie. I've always liked her so much.
Indeed, Suzanna had such presence.
She’d also in Battle of Britain (undressed).
Suzanna York was not in The Wind and The Lion. Candice Bergen was Eden Pedecaris in the Movie
Thanks for posting this old series. Not exactly Masterpiece Theater but always fun to watch.
What is that haunting melody? So fitting for the time, place and drama.
If it's the title music, then it was released on single back in the day. They turn up on eBay.
WW2. All those young airman so apply go lucky. Most going to their deaths. I am afraid which one is not coming back from this crew. This show was recommended to me. I am solar it was, it's a really good show. Thank you for posting. .
Just finished watching Enemy at the Door series which I was thoroughly addicted to. Thankfully, I have fallen upon this drama series. Was a little surprised by the dislike of some of the Brits for the American pilots. Can understand how they might feel, however would German occupation be more palatable to the people of Suffolk, I keep thinking. This episode is VERY good. I look forward to next episodes. THANKS Rich.
Diane Vitale consider the fact that the Brits had been fighting for years losing their loved ones, surviving on strict rations and finally the flashy yanks got of their asses and decided to join the fight!!! It’s perfectly understandable that there was a level of ‘dislike’.
@@Carfilliot Consider, that Brits only truly joined the fight at the very moment Hitler knocked on their shore. They kicked whole Europe under the nazi bus before ...
You need an urgent review of your understanding of history! The British went to war with Germany in 1939, nothing to do with them being at our shores, but because Hitler invaded Poland and we had promised to protect them.
Susannah York! Yeah, BABAY, YEAH! Huzzah for Anglo-American steam heat! Thanks for this, I was working 60 hour weeks when it aired here in the Colonies and missed it... Tally-Ho! Our two nations are the beacon of Liberty Justice and lots of beer and snogging... so what could you ever want more?
2024 watching this. Their American accents are dreadful. The plot seems very similar to the Richard Gere movie “ Yanks”. I love these old period dramas. No bad language and no blood & guts horror rubbish that permeates modern “ entertainment”. Fantastic.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
The series does a good job at exposing the tensions between the USAAF and the local Brits that are often glossed over. However, I think they overdid it . . . the Americans crashing into everything possible on the roads, demanding Cuban cigars that they should have known were all gone, buzzing British farmworkers, etc.
Still, the filmmakers' juxtaposition between war-weary Brits and "green," gung-ho Americans is something to be appreciated. Again, it's often missing from WWII films about the 8th AF in Britain. Though, also "again," I think the filmmakers played a little too strong.
It was not the “United States Airforce” in 1943, it was the United States Army Air Force (USAAF), they were in the army and were trained to be infantry soldiers before they became technical soldiers, so @ 4:16 she was wrong. Not a very auspicious start to the series.
They were just having a general conversation and they are British, people in real life could easily make a slight mistake like that.
Surely shopkeeper Albert Mundy (in the brown dust coat), is based upon another shopkeeper, Arkwright, played by Ronnie Barker, in the TV series, Open All Hours.
German bomber, absurdly, strafes a girl in a field and a cyclist, but doesn't strafe the US bombers on the airfield
y-y-y-y-your're right there G-g-g-g-granville!
Isn't the actor playing Albert Mundy the same one that played Ray Spikings in Dempsey and Makepeace?
Yes it was. The late Ray Smith.
as an American i truly hope our men didnt behave as badly as this show illustrated. if they did then shame on them
The Friendly Invasion - 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
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A fantastic number of babies were left behind 😉 and a good number of war brides too! The officials had some funny ideas as to which girls would adapt to life in America and who wouldn't. And young couples, who married could still leave their babies behind to start their new lives unencumbered!! My father was one of them!
@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts Today they have even more peculiar ideas about who "would adapt to life in America..." Today the leadership doesn't care about that sort of thing.
Wow first 3 mins and absolutely no one can fly or drive.
This was good but Secret Army was a classic.
Oh I was sooo in love with mario (David Baxt) so gorgeous lol
People cannot retweet my posts and I can’t see where to turn anything off or on it’s puzzling can you help?
Why is it that any attempt at the Suffolk accent always ends up sounding like they're from Somerset?
Don't know what a Somerset accent sounds like, but they're certainly not speaking suffolk
That must be a distraction for those of you who know about those intricacies.
But for those of us who don’t (born and raised in Canada by parents and grandparents born and raised here) the precise nature of each accent doesn’t matter too much. It’s crystal clear who’s English and who’s American which rolls the story onward! Lol
I loved Captain Red.
Me too!
Me also
Memphis Belle footage from the 1943 documentary to support the only flying-fortress in the series, B-17G "Sally B" in her natural metal scheme prior to her appearance in Memphis Belle some eight years later. One error I noticed possibly deliberate, was the female shop owner who refers to the newly arrived Americans as belonging to the United States Air Force (USAF) But then later on USAAF is mentioned in its entirety in a welcome speech given by Susannah York.
Nor necessarily an 'error' -- "Air Force" is a generic term for those who fly planes and drop bombs; such technicalities as the official name wasn't really a consideration at that time in common parlance, nor did it need to be.
Iam liking fr season 2but couldn't find it ain't there any second season?
There's one guy who sounds like a clark gable impression @11:10 or so
Ropey American accents.
“Ropey”? What does that mean?
Not half as ropey as the Suffolk accents!
He's right about Blucher 👈😑
Not the Masters of the Air for sure. lol
They could of made an effort to make the runway look better than that disused look.
Most of the "Americans" are portrayed by Brits. Their performances seem a little forced. Though probably not much more than the reverse.
Not every American was from New York, New Jersey, Chicago, California or the Mid-West, none of these actors were assigned to try to imitate Southern airmen or those from the West.
@@johnsaia9739 Colonel "Kraz" is Australian actor Ed Deveraux.
Piece of Cake is better - RAF
don't you know theres a war on /of course he knows hes a soldier .you plonker ./
......."welcome to 'Mouldy Hall" (Mildenhall) ??? or ? Lakenheath?
+elizabeth sheffield Lived at Lakenheath for 6 years!
Diver ForPort
....I know the area around those 2 bases well!
elizabeth sheffield I am English---though live in the States--- my hubby was in the US airforce, retired now, we married in 1984, he was stationed at RAF Wethersfield, we then lived in FL for 3 years---then we then got stationed at Lakenheath, lived in basehousing there.
Diver ForPort
Many years ago we used to go to "the warren" - a sandy area viewing point above Lakenheath with our kids nd watch the F15's etc taking off and landing - dont think they'd allow that now tho!! ;>)
elizabeth sheffield I know that at some point they had issues with people trying to sue the base for them having hearing problems after watching the planes, the base house we lived in the planes flew right over our house, used to drive me nuts had to stop talking till the had all flown over(I think there was 4 of them)
The actors portraying Americans are a bit heavy handed.................... Accents are weird and very hard to figure out where these "Americans" are supposed to be from.................. LOL Just saying.
The stereotypes are crap.
You were there, right?! That’s how you know that ....
I think stereotyping was much more socially acceptable, much more popular, when this series was made than it is now. One way we have perhaps moved forward as a culture, since then?! Thanks to those who keep objecting to all that we need to change (like yourself 😊)! ❤️👌🏾🌟🤗
Kind of cartoonish melodrama.
What a load of s@@@.
Dreadfully boring this is old chap.
Typical crap tv filler of the time. Plodding, dull, clichéd.
Wow this is some really bad TV.
WW2. Food. Episode 2
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😂do you speak English 😂😂😂