Wish Me Luck
1988
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 23 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
DramaWar & Politics
Focuses on the lives of British women recruited as secret agents in occupied France during World War II. The series follows their training, missions, and the dangers they face while working with the French Resistance.
Where to Watch (US)
Stream
Amazon Prime Video
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Seasons
Season 1
England, 1942. Liz Grainger lives a privileged life in Dover with her 5-year-old daughter; Matty Fireman works in a London factory. Both are recruited as secret agents by charismatic Col. Cad Cadogan.
Season 2
Autumn 1943. Three British agents working behind enemy lines are rounded up and shot. Who will be chosen to take their place?
Season 3
Emily is saved from arrest at a road block by local woman Nicole and the two women travel to Le Crest,the Resistance stronghold in the French Alps,run by Luc,Renard and Rex,the parish priest. Faith takes over from Cad and recruits two new agents,Virginia Mitchell,who lived in France and has a French ex-husband and actor Lewis Lake. Kit and Renard are summoned to London and asked to organize a local uprising as a diversion for an invasion though Kit is not enthusiastic to risk his colleagues' lives. Nicole proves to be a spy for Stuckler.
Crew
Producer
Michael Chaplin, Nick Elliott
Network
ITV1
Production
LWT
Keywords
world war iiundercover agentbased on memoir or autobiographyfemale empowerment1940soccupied france (1940-44)