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Wish Me Luck is a British television drama about the exploits of civilian women who became undercover agents in Occupied France during the Second World War. [1] The series was made by London Weekend Television for the ITV network between 17 January 1988 and 25 February 1990 and created by Lavinia Warner and Jill Hyem, who had previously produced and written the BBC women prisoner of war series ...
The event is fictionalised in the last episode of the British television show Wish Me Luck. Skarbek is often characterised in terms such as Britain's "most glamorous spy" [11] or "Churchill's favourite spy". [12] She was stabbed to death in 1952 in London by an obsessed and spurned suitor who was subsequently hanged.
"Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye" is a song by Phil Park and Harry Parr-Davies, made popular during the Second World War by Gracie Fields. It appeared in Fields' 1939 film Shipyard Sally. Its use in the film is patriotic, Stephen C. Shafer argues, although the song in this context did not reference the war, as the film was released prior to ...
Pages in category "World War II television drama series" The following 127 pages are in this category, out of 127 total. ... Wish Me Luck; Wonder Woman (TV series)
She created several successful TV series in the 1980s and 1990s, all of which featured women in the leading roles. These included the World War II female internee drama Tenko (1981-5) for the BBC, secret agent drama Wish Me Luck (1988–90) for London Weekend Television (LWT) and the taxi-firm series Rides (1992-3), again for the BBC. For the ...
In 1987, she played the spirited but careless Anglo-French SOE spy, Matty Firman, in Wish Me Luck — an LWT miniseries, this one set in occupied France during World War II. [13] In 1988, she appeared opposite Jon Finch in another low-budget German film, a short called The Voice , [ 14 ] about six people who are held captive overnight on a ...
Luck to me is something else: hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."--Lucille Ball. Friday, March 11: "The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."
The poet George Sutherland Fraser, who served in World War II, wrote a poem, "S.S. City of Benares (drowned refugee children, 1940)", about the sinking. [28] City of Benares is the setting of the book Wish Me Luck by James Heneghan, the story of a boy from Liverpool being sent away to safety on City of Benares.