Wish Me Luck (1988)

Directed by

Gordon Flemyng

Genre

drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

3 seasons, 23 episodes

Rated

12

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Civilian women are recruited as undercover agents in occupied France during World War Two. The series follows their dangerous missions and personal struggles.

suspensefultensemelancholicgrittyatmosphericslow-burnemotionalinspiring

What happens

Wish Me Luck is a British television drama about the exploits of civilian women who became undercover agents in Occupied France during the Second World War. The series was made by London Weekend Television for the ITV network between 17 January 1988 and 25 February 1990 and created by Lavinia Warner and Jill Hyem, who had previously produced and written the BBC women prisoner of war series Tenko. The series was filmed on location in England and France. Wish Me Luck is similar to Tenko and the 1970s BBC drama Secret Army, in that it deals with strong female characters coping under extreme conditions in wartime. The organisation for which the series' women agents worked, the Outfit, was based on the real-life Special Operations Executive. Season 1 and 2 were based on the exploits of SOE agent Nancy Wake and much of the dialogue was copied from her autobiography The White Mouse. The series also addressed social issues and divisions under wartime conditions. A great deal of attention was also paid to creating the social context of the operatives, the drama of their work, against the backdrop of an intensely detailed local "colour" in both wartime Britain and France. "Wish Me Luck (as You Wave Me Goodbye)" is a song made popular during the Second World War by Gracie Fields. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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