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COLLECTION · Series · 1988

Wish Me Luck

A secret organisation called The Outfit recruits and trains civilians, sending them undercover to aid in the war effort, or placing them in administrative tasks to aid the group. Each person arrives at The Outfit by a different route: Mathilde ('Matty') escaped to London from France and wants desperately to contribute to the war effort; Liz, whose husband is serving overseas and whose brother has just died in the war, stumbles into the group almost by accident. Former actor Colin Beale also trains for undercover work. Vivien's husband was executed when his work with The Outfit was uncovered. But they all come together against the common enemy.

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* 6.5 (6)DramaWarUnited Kingdom
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Creators
Lavinia Warner
Countries
United Kingdom
Studios
ITV1 · LWT
Runtime
30 min/ep
Release
17/01/1988
Score
6.5 / 10 (6)
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Seasons and episodes
Series 1
8 episodes · 1988
Episode 1. Episode 1
1988-01-17 · 30 min

England, 1942: Liz Grainger lives a privileged life in Dover with her five-year-old daughter; Matty Fireman works in a London factory. Both are recruited as secret agents by charismatic Colonel James 'Cad' Cadogan.

Episode 2. Episode 2
1988-01-24 · 30 min

Liz and Matty prepare for duty, and Liz bids a painful goodbye to her daughter. Under cover of night, the new agents fly to France.

Episode 3. Episode 3
1988-01-31 · 30 min

Resistance leader Kit Vanston is shocked that the new arrivals are women. As German forces close in, wireless operator Matty sends her first transmission.

Episode 4. Episode 4
1988-02-07 · 30 min

Matty narrowly escapes detection. Meanwhile, Liz learns that her childhood friend Claudine has been forced to billet German Colonel Krieger and his officers in her chateau.

Episode 5. Episode 5
1988-02-14 · 30 min

Liz makes plans to return to London with vital information for Cad. Trapped between the Resistance and the Germans, Claudine faces a ghastly choice: become a double agent or be handed over to the Gestapo.

Episode 6. Episode 6
1988-02-21 · 30 min

Liz's husband wants to know the truth about her wartime activities. When she comes clean, he's outraged. Back in France, Kit warns Matty to be more careful, and Claudine provides useful information to the Germans

Episode 7. Episode 7
1988-02-28 · 30 min

Matty has been captured and Imprisoned, endangering the entire operation and the safety of its agents. Cad must send Liz to learn what is happening in France.

Episode 8. Episode 8
1988-03-06 · 30 min

Matty's interrogation becomes increasingly brutal. Liz learns the awful truth about who betrayed her friend and mounts a dramatic rescue effort with Kit. Can they reach Matty in time?

Series 2
Series 2
7 episodes · 1989
Episode 1. Episode 1
1989-01-08 · 30 min

Autumn 1943. Three British agents working behind enemy lines are rounded up and shot. Who will be chosen to take their place?

Episode 2. Episode 2
1989-01-15 · 30 min

New agents Emily and Vivien are parachuted into France but get a bumpy reception in more ways than one. Emily gets a reminder of her old life, and danger soon threatens in the unlikely shape of a pretty young woman.

Episode 3. Episode 3
1989-01-22 · 30 min

The agents of the Outfit - at home and in Nazi-occupied France - have to cope with a series of crises. While Colin faces a breakdown and Vivien digs painfully into her past, Liz contemplates the wreckage of her private life and Emily must…

Episode 4. Episode 4
1989-01-29 · 30 min

Tensions in the circuit mount as Liz asserts her authority as the new leader. Gordon resents being bossed around by a woman. Vivien's mysterious behaviour arouses suspicion. And when disaster strikes, the team are forced to ask…

Episode 5. Episode 5
1989-02-05 · 30 min

In the aftermath of the disastrous raid on the radio station the agents of Area 7 are faced with danger on all sides. How can they get treatment for the badly injured Gordon? Is there a traitor within their ranks? And what will happen…

Episode 6. Episode 6
1989-02-12 · 30 min

With Emily on the run, Gordon invalided out, and Vivien increasingly obssessed with her secret search for her daughter, Liz struggles to prevent the disintegration of the circuit. She gets help from an unexpected source, but cannot stop…

Episode 7. Episode 7
1989-02-19 · 30 min

With Vivien and her daughter in German hands, Liz and the other agents of Area 7 are in grave danger, and they soon have to face a terrible dilemma. Which is more important? Their freedom or Vivien's life?

Series 3
Series 3
8 episodes · 1990
Episode 1. Episode 1
1990-01-07 · 30 min

Emily is saved from arrest at a road block by local woman Nicole and the two women travel to Le Crest,the Resistance stronghold in the French Alps,run by Luc,Renard and Rex,the parish priest. Faith takes over from Cad and recruits two new…

Episode 2. Episode 2
1990-01-14 · 30 min

Faith is appalled to learn that the planned revolt will have no military backing and is purely a diversion,which will result in many partisan deaths. In Le Crest,however,the blissfully unaware Maquis plan their uprising. Luc tells Emily…

Episode 3. Episode 3
1990-01-21 · 30 min

Rex goes into hiding,unaware that Stuckler will order reprisals if he is not recaptured. Emily and Luc declare their feelings for each other whilst Virginia,trailed by a suspicious Lewis,visits ex-husband Philippe,though she fails to get…

Episode 4. Episode 4
1990-01-28 · 30 min

Twenty villagers from Courmont are killed in reprisal for Rex,who renounces God and quits the church. Whilst Emily has to break it to Kit and Renard that the uprising must be aborted,Faith and Gordon desperately plead for military back-up…

Episode 5. Episode 5
1990-02-04 · 30 min

Having forced Sylvie to tell him of the set-up at Le Crest Stuckler shoots her and her mother. The previously complacent Philippe,appalled by the brutality,agrees to spy for Virginia and tricks Stuckler into divulging the German plan of…

Episode 6. Episode 6
1990-02-11 · 30 min

Interrogated by Renard Philippe says nothing but Virginia divulges their relationship. Already angry to think that no Allied support will be forthcoming to combat the expected German air strike,Renard orders them both to be shot along…

Episode 7. Episode 7
1990-02-18 · 30 min

Emily and Luc make it back to Le Crest,where Liz has just arrived but Lewis and Kit are both caught by the Germans and Kit is tortured. Philippe,using his position as prefect of police,takes advantage of Stuckler's absence to order their…

Episode 8. Episode 8
1990-02-25 · 30 min

German paratroopers swarm all over Le Crest,forcing the Maquis into hiding in the woods. Brave woman doctor Bosco,Nicole,Philippe and Max's son Jean-Louis are among the casualties. The British agents and Renard and his family manage to…

Cast by season
Jane Asher
Jane Asher
Faith Ashley
Kate Buffery
Kate Buffery
Liz Grainger
Julian Glover
Julian Glover
Colonel James Cadogan
Jeremy Northam
Jeremy Northam
Colin Beale
Suzanna Hamilton
Suzanna Hamilton
Mathilde 'Matty' Firman
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Keywords
world war iiundercover agentespionagebased on memoir or autobiographyfemale empowerment1940soccupied france (1940-44)
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