P.O.W. (TV series)

Shot down in October 1940, RAF Sgt. Jim Caddon finds himself in the German administered POW camp, Stalag 39. Caddon is a bit of a hot head and ill-tempered about being detained or the order by his senior officer, Capt. Baladi, to cease any escape plans. Caddon gets involved with the escape plans of Sam Shanklin. They will infest the hut with fleas, and secret Shanklin in a mattress while they go to delousing. The Germans burn the mattresses killing Shanklin.

Fellow POWs are leery of the new arrival, Harry Freeman, when it is learned he is a fluent German speaker. Jim Caddon disagrees. He and Freeman are assigned to a recon mission of the area surrounding Stalag 39. Harry recuses himself at last moment. Caddon reconsiders his opinion about Freeman. Drew Pritchard gets involved in the issue. Cricket eliminates the oxygen supply for the tunnelers.

When one of the men is found murdered, Capt. Attercombe decides to launch his own investigation and keep the death a secret from Kommandant Dreiber. The dead man had recently received a letter from his girlfriend telling him she had married a local police constable. He was deeply humiliated and had threatened several of his fellow prisoners about not telling anyone about the situation. When Robbie Crane confesses to the crime, he is to be turned over to the camp authorities, but Drew Pritchard has a better solution. With the assistance of another man, Crane escapes.

When told by Captain Attercombe that he has been taken off the escape list and will not be accompanying those using the tunnel, Jim Caddon decides the time has come to make a break for it. Unexpectedly joined by Larry Boyd, they decide to follow the same route to be used by those who will soon escape through the tunnel. It does not take long for the Germans to realize the men have escaped and a Gestapo officer leads the hunt. Caddon is wounded during the escape. He is healed by Hanna, a German woman who has no loyalty to the Nazis. They end up having sex, but Caddon is betrayed the next morning by a Nazi-loyal friend of Hanna. Caddon makes a run for it, running into Boyd. The two are caught by Feltmann of the Gestapo. Feltmann non-fatally shoots Boyd and Caddon strangles him to death with his own shotgun. When Caddon and Boyd realize that their mates will be walking into a trap, they have to decide whether to give themselves up and return to the camp to warn them.

The Gestapo have determined that a downed airman POW is an enemy spy. Three new arrivals are suspected and are brutally interrogated. Jim Caddon is one of them. None will confess. Gestapo officer, Major Stahl, decides to execute prisoners until someone comes forward. Caddon goes on a very special mission.

The POWs learn from their radio the camp is to experience a massive air raid. They believe it an opportunity to stage a mass escape via their incomplete tunnel. While they push to complete the short distance into the woods their plans change when there is a but a cave-in. Drew Pritchard determines to continue with an escape by stealing a travel pass from Kommandant Dreibers' office. Dreiber subjects Pritchard to interrogation to determine what is going on.