WISH ME LUCK: SERIES THREE

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• Release Year: 1990
• Genre: Drama, War
• Plot: Wish Me Luck is a British television drama about the exploits of British women undercover agents during the Second World War. The series was made by London Weekend Television for the ITV network between 1987 and 1989 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 backgrop of an intensely detailed local 'colour' in both wartime Britain and France.;
• Cast: Jane Asher, Michael J. Jackson, Kate Buffery, Jane Snowden, Julian Glover, Jeremy Northam, Mark Anstee, Stuart McGugan, Suzanna Hamilton, Catherine Schell, Jeremy Nicholas, Trevor Peacock, Terrence Hardiman, Glyn Grain, Lynn Farleigh, Felicity Montagu, Venetia Barrett, William Simons, Miranda Burton, Shelagh McLeod, Gillian Raine, John Boswall, Nigel Le Vaillant, Arthur Whybrow, Damien Thomas, Jenny Robbins, Paul Rainbow, Abigail McKern, Robert Lister, Warren Clarke, John Challis, Donald Gee, Shirley Henderson, Carmel McSharry, Bobbie Brown, Vincenzo Nicoli, Caroline John, Marianne Borgo, Fiona Walker, Richard Hampton, Bryan Pringle, Jeremy Brudenell, Jerome Willis, Albert Welling, Lusha Kellgren, Godfrey James, Trevyn McDowell, Tim Meats, William Jongeneel, Sidney Livingstone, Andrew Woodall, Anthony Langdon, David Swift, Barrie Shore, Gabrielle Glaister, Jasper Jacob, Michael Palmer, Tilly Tremayne, Tom Chadbon, Olivier Pierre, Elaine Lordan, Nicholas Geake, Trilby Harris, James Greene, Rupert Vansittart, Jean Rimmer, Ken Wynne, Iain Rattray, Terence Lodge, Anne Jameson, Stephen Brigden, Sebastian Abineri, Jake D'Arcy, Stephen Hattersley, Leon Tanner, Louis Mellis
• Director: Philip J. Jones
• Runtime: 6:54
• Company: Acorn Media
• Media Format: series