Island at War - Season 1 (2004)

1940: Fishing off the Normandy coast,Wilf Jonas,policeman on the Channel Island of St. Gregory,sees two English soldiers shot by Germans and realises that the German occupation of the islands is imminent. An evacuation to Britain is arranged. Jewish photography shop owner Mr. Izaaks is amongst those leaving but Zelda Landau,a young Jewess,is denied passage as she lacks a British passport. Urban Mahy,a grocer,agrees to take over Mr. Izaak's shop and is at the harbour to arrange the evacuation of his wife Chrissy and daughters,Angelique and singer June. However German ...

Widowed Cassie Mahy is humiliated by sadistic lieutenant Walker after she tries to refuse him service in her shop whilst her daughters reopen Mr. Izaak's business and Angelique is annoyed with June for agreeing to develop photographs for young airman Bernhard Tellemann. Von Rheingarten commandeers part of the Dorrs' large house after Felicity has been rude to him. The Dorrs' son Philip and his friend Eugene LaSalle are on a spying mission for England on the island but their plan to escape by submarine is thwarted and a German soldier killed. The boys are now stuck on ...

Wilf,under the guise of setting lobster pots,dumps the dead German in deep waters though Lt. Flach is suspicious of the time he spent at sea. Philip and Eugene hide with the Jonases but Eugene is ill and the Dorrs try and persuade him to surrender and be treated as a prisoner-of-war,which he does. Philip,meanwhile,under the alias of Brotherson,is taken on as handyman by his parents. Von Rheingarten begins to have civilized conversations with Felicity,but she is wary as she knows that he is aware of the second spy at large on the island. Bernhardt gives Angelique a ...