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Over Here
- TV comedy drama
- BBC One
- 1996
- 2 episodes (1 series)
Comedy drama set at an air-base in East England in 1942, when an RAF Spitfire squadron is joined by the first USAAF recruits. Stars Samuel West, Jay Goede, Geraldine James, Jack Shepherd, Todd Boyce and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1
Further details
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The recruits are eager to get into the fighting after training in the USA, but disaster strikes on their arrival when radar is knocked out in a German air raid, leaving the incoming American transport planes unprotected.
Group Captain Barker has no spare squadrons to escort the Americans, especially since the whole of Archie Bunting's squadron is on leave at the wedding of the artistocratic pilot Charlie. Bunting's hungover squadron are recalled early, but only Archie has a plane with him, the rest have to get back by train.
The American airbase to which the transport plane is heading is attacked and bombed by the Luftwaffe, and the furious Colonel Hewitt is forced to go with Barker to the English base.
Meanwhile, Archie contacts base and is given directions by Tully, who forgets to mention the incoming Americans and only warns Archie that there are enemy aircraft in the vicinity. Archie spots a plane and goes into an attack. The American plane believes it is being attacked by the Germans and confusion reigns until Archie realises that he has shot up an American plane. When the Americans spot him in his spitfire they assume he has chased off the Germans.
Hewitt is livid at what he sees as total incompetence and threatens to report everything, although all the Americans on the plane are convinced they were attacked by a horde of Messerschmitts.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Sunday 7th April 1996
- Time
- 8:20pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 90 minutes
Cast & crew
Samuel West | Archie Bunting |
Jay Goede | Herschel Lenko |
Geraldine James | Lady Billingham |
Jack Shepherd | Butler |
Todd Boyce | Hewitt |
Sharon Geater | Bronwen |
Peter Wingfield | Tully |
Timothy West | Archie (Present Day) |
Martin Clunes | Group Captain Barker |
Damien Matthews | Charlie |
Andrew Lincoln | Cappy |
Andrew Faulkner | Max |
Patrick Toomey | Hopper |
Mark Healy | Ginger |
Tony Curran | Dougal |
David Thwaites | Burns |
Amy Marston | Daphne |
Angus MacInnes | Collis |
Nigel Whitmey | Rayner |
Walter Lewis | JJ |
Noah Margetts | Al |
Gary Parker | Humf |
Gregory Cooke | Ramez |
Christopher Malcolm | Murphy |
Corey Johnson | Webster |
Louise Brighton | Daisy |
Rebecca Charles | Thelma |
Eric Loren | Sharman |
Peter Mair | George |
Clare Cathcart | Edna |
Amanda Horlock | Pearl |
Rupert Degas | Denny |
Peter Brooke | Guy |
Maia Guest | Rosa |
Lolly Susi | Ruby |
Lou Hirsch | Tomasz |
Robert Jezek | Dow |
John Fitzgerald-Jay | Riley |
Thomas Turner | Paperboy |
Lawrence Elman | Bell |
Drew Murphy | Lacalle |
Michael Zimmerman | Mays |
Toni Palmer | Singer in Pub |
John Sullivan | Writer |
Tony Dow | Director |
Jacinta Peel | Producer |
John Sullivan | Executive Producer |
John Jarvis | Editor |
Donal Woods | Production Designer |
Graham Jarvis | Composer |
Ernest Maxin | Creator |