P.O.W.

P.O.W. centres around the escape attempts of several British officers in a Prisoner of War camp in Germany. The lead, Jim Caddon, is played by James D'Arcy (Master and Commander, Nicholas Nickleby) and the series starts off with his capture and subsequent transport to the camp. At first untrusted by the other officers, Jim eventually becomes good friends with a number of men and is brought into the folds of the escape committee.

Each episode is very neatly wrapped up at the end, with nothing being left unanswered. This helps if you happen to miss an episode, however it can be frustrating because when the episode finishes the men are usually right back where they were at the beginning of the episode.

Several episodes are based around fairly violent and emotional topics such as rape, murder and a man is even lit on fire(!), so this is definitely not one for the under 15s.

Fine acting and a brilliant script keep this series action-packed, and while its historical accuracy can be questioned, all in all it's a jolly good ride.

If you liked POW I recommend The Great Escape.

While "P.O.W." won't be ranked in the alltime great TV series it is a well done and accurate piece of British quality drama.

"P.O.W." does honour to the real prisoners of war by telling their story in all it's heroism but also not forgetting the sides of their captivity which are taboo..

Supporting actors Patrick Baladi and Ewan Stewart stand out especially well in their roles, Baladi as the calm CO. and Stewart as the Scottish NCO who heads of the escape commitee. Both deliver their roles without falling into any clichés.

Also the shooting location in Lithuania passes well of as the WW2 German rural country.

I've just discovered these series which of course were not shown on the french television, we do prefer the stupid ones like The bold and the beautiful which runs and re-runs year after year!

Here at last the cast is great Darcy is the perfect for this role pilot with his "beau ténébreux" looks. I really enjoyed it and I think the directors or ITV were quite right to stop it after six episodes otherwise the story would have repeated itself. Here we just have to imagine what were the secrets to carry to London and may be others would have escaped from the camp.

Someone wrote "There are of course some moments of unimaginable cruelty". The poor guy is really naive. Do you think that the Nazis were following the Geneva bylaws concerning the POW? They were as ruthless in POW camps than in the other sinister camps discovered in 1944 and 1945. I'm not sure that there even has been a Captain of a camp ever so easy going as the one shown on the movie.

STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All Costs

A drama concerning the exploits of a group of men trapped in a German P.O.W. camp in World War 2.

This is another inspired concept for ITV to make a series out of,but the soap opera style execution the stories and sub plots end up being carried out with and limp dialogue make something that could have been brilliant into something that is merely okay and nothing special.***

Loved this series.

A previous reviewer complained about mistakes in military procedures, who cares? It's escapism. No pun intended LOL.

There could easily have been a second series which I would have loved to have seen.