Four seasons. 6 episodes per season. A political thriller following the misadventures of English journalist Jack Telford through the final months of the Spanish Civil War and then all the way through World War Two. And it’s not just the obvious enemies that want to see him dead!
Telford’s War, Season One: The Assassin’s Mark
Logline: Murder on the Orient Express meets Homage to Catalonia
English journalist Jack Telford is sent to northern Spain as part of a battlefield tour group organised by rebel General Franco’s provisional government as a propaganda exercise in the wake of the bombing of Guernica. But the tour is quickly mired in murder, mayhem and an assassination attempt – and Jack must himself learn to kill simply to survive.
Telford’s War, Season Two: Until the Curtain Falls
Logline: For Whom the Bell Tolls meets The Thirty-Nine Steps
Telford, now wanted for murder, and in possession of deadly secrets, is forced to flee across Spain pursued by three very different enemies. From the prison camps of Burgos, to the siege of Madrid, and then the last tragic days of the Spanish Civil War in Alicante, Jack will risk everything in his search for the truth.
Telford’s War, Season Three: The Scorpion’s Sting
Logline: Casablanca meets Death on the Nile
Fleeing with refugees and former fighters from Spain, Telford arrives in North Africa where he’ll soon learn that the Spanish Civil War has only been the opening salvo of the wider conflict still to come. But old enemies still threaten as Jack follows intrigue and tragedy, passion and fresh dangers on the streets of Casablanca and Brazzaville. Then, after World War Two has begun in earnest, into the battlefields of the Libyan desert.
Telford’s War, Season Four: A Betrayal of Heroes
Logline: The Day of the Jackal meets Saving Private Ryan
No longer a simple journalist, war correspondent Jack Telford is attached to the Spanish troops now part of French General Leclerc’s Second Armoured Division as it sails to England in preparation for Normandy. But, even here, home in England for the first time in six years, the ghosts of the past still haunt him. They continue to haunt him all the way to a final showdown, to love and to loss, during the Liberation of Paris and far, far beyond.
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