Enemy at the Door

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.

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

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

A British landing on Guernsey goes tragically awry.

British troops attempt an amphibious assault on Guernsey.

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.

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.

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

A German soldier and an Island girl fall in love.

A German general arrives on a secret mission.

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

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

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.

Dr Martel has been sent to a French prison. A new Commander-in-Chief has been appointed on Guernsey.

Foster-Smythe has replaced Martel on the civilian controlling committee. His attitude is dangerously cavalier.

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The Germans order the confiscation of all privately-owned radio receivers, so the islanders are forced to hand over their precious link with the outside world. But Captain Foster-Smythe won't be bullied and continues his campaign against…

In Nazi-occupied Guernsey the islanders and the Germans have a problem in common. How can Dr Martel be persuaded to rejoin the island's Controlling Committee?

His prison sentence completed, farmer Peter Porteous returns to Nazi-occupied Guernsey to settle an old score. But his encounter with Teddy Lupus leads to a murder charge - and a moral dilemma for Philip Martel.

September 1942 in the Nazi-occupied Channel Islands. On Sark a British commando raid shatters the uneasy calm.

Hitler orders the deportation of all residents not born on the islands. Marjory Clifford writes an anonymous letter - with consequences far beyond her wildest imaginings.

In Nazi-occupied Guernsey the revival of the chess tournament between Channel Island teams brings about an unexpected and, in Richter's view, a highly inflammatory outcome.

The visit by a high-ranking SS officer to Nazi-occupied Guernsey on a mysterious personal mission gives Reinicke a chance to ingratiate himself, but it brings tragedy for Betty Ridge.

While working on the construction of a German gun site in Nazi-occupied Guernsey, a Russian prisoner of war kills a guard and escapes. But those who shelter him run terrible risks.

April 1943 in the Nazi-occupied Channel Islands. A neutral Swedish journalist arrives in Guernsey at the invitation of Goebbels to gather material for an article on what the Germans regard as a "model occupation".

Drama series set during the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands. April 1943. Peter Porteous takes advantage of the predicament of another farmer and makes a bid for freedom.