The islanders were chiefly represented by the respected local doctor, Philip Martell (Bernard Horsfall), who struggled to maintain the peace while the Germans were led by Major Dieter Richter (Alfred Burke), a peace-time academic who was inclined to be lenient on the Guernsey populace but whose approach was challenged by his more conventionally "nasty" SS counterpart Hauptsturmführer Klaus Reinicke (Simon Cadell).
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The programme generated a certain amount of criticism in Guernsey, particularly for being obviously filmed on Jersey despite being ostensibly set on Guernsey.
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The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War.
Gipps-Kent starred in A Traveller in Time (1978), a BBC series based on the children's book by Alison Uttley, and in V for Victory, an episode of the TV series Enemy at the Door.
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He appeared in several TV dramas including Grange Hill, Enemy at the Door, Tales of the Unexpected, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (in a brief appearance as the adult Peter Pevensie) and Van der Valk.