TV series
The Dragon's Opponent
1973 · 1 season
A taut, old-fashioned wartime procedural that follows an eccentric Englishman through dangerous, high-stakes exploits with steady, understated tension.
- Created by
- Ben Rea, Gerald Blake
- Starring
- Ronald Pickup, Anton Darby, Virginia McKenna
- Overview
- 4-part miniseries dramatising the true-life adventures of Charles "Mad Jack" Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, whose daring wartime exploits included rescuing dozens of refugee European nuclear scientists, a large supply of heavy water and millions of pounds in diamonds just before the Germans captured Paris, and then became a self-taught bomb disposal expert who successfully defused dozens of large German bombs during the London Blitz.
- How it feels
- Tense, earnest and dark. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- War, survival, obsession, identity
- Content
- Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Ben Rea, Gerald Blake
- Starring
- Ronald Pickup, Anton Darby, Virginia McKenna
