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Colditz :: The Undefeated (01x01)
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| Title: | The Undefeated |
| Episode #: | 01x01 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday October 19th, 1972 |
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It is June 4, 1940 and British troops are being captured by the Germans at Dunkirk. Among the prisoners is Captain Patrick Grant, a Civil Engineer in civilian life.
After being forced to walk seven hundred miles from Dunkirk to Wehrmacht Prison Camp VIIC with many other prisoners, Pat Grant's first thoughts are of escape.
After digging their way out, Grant and several other men successfully escape from the camp, but are recaptured nine days later. The Kommandant of Wehrmacht Prison Camp VIIC tells Grant that he is being transferred to another camp, a special camp for misfits where there is no possibility of escape. The name of the Camp is Oflag IVC - Colditz.
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The producer of Colditz was Gerald Glaister, who in his search for an accompanying music score, turned to Robert Farnon, the celebrated composer who had himself served as a Captain during WW2. Farnon visited Glaister in his office at London's Television Centre and was so impressed with the series that inspiration started to flow at once.
The taxi journey back to his hotel only took twenty minutes, but in that short space of time he wrote out the salient parts of what was to be the main march theme on the back of an envelope.
It required just another few days' work to complete the whole piece, which went on to share the enthusiastic critical plaudits which greeted Colditz as a whole, and win its composer his third Ivor Novello award.
| The real-life record of escapes from Colditz is a handsome one, and stands as its own tribute to the sheer audacity and clever planning of the inmates: 300 were caught in various escape attempts; 130 actually got clear of the castle, and 30 made successful 'home runs' - fourteen French, eight British, six Dutch, one Pole and one Australian, although in official records Bill Fowler, the Australian Officer, is listed as British.
| Calver Mill in Derbyshire, England was used for some of the exterior shots of Colditz.
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Grant: Where the hell is Colditz .... sir? (Grant's reaction to being told by the Kommandant that he is being transferred to Oflag IVC - Colditz).
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