Secret Army (TV Series) Second Chance (1977) User Reviews

Excellent episode but poses questions.

[napev7 · 9/10 · 11 October 2022]

I saw this for the second time on TPTV last night and it is undoubtedly one of the best episodes of the first season. However, the character of the fugitive airman (or deserter?) does pose a few questions. He does claim to be a British airman called Finch who wants no further part in the war, but if this were true, he would have simply given himself up to the Germans in order to spend the rest of the war in a POW camp. So this could be a 'plot hole' goof, but alternatively he could have been a German deserter who spoke good English with a convincing fake accent. This would have given Lifeline a good reason for getting the Germans to shoot him at the conclusion of the episode, because killing a Brit would perhaps have been too unpalatable for them. Or he could have been a German posing as a Brit to infiltrate Lifeline. Whatever the reason, definitely an episode worth watching.

Excellent episode

[geoff-spurr · 10/10 · 29 October 2020]

Excellent episode, chilling finale, but I recognised the voice of the downed airman immediately, so distinctive, but couldn't place the face or where I'd heard the voice. It was Mr Mason, William's father, in Downton Abbey, many decades later!