SPYFORCE – Death Railway – 1971
This Australian series was set during World War Two in the Pacific. The series starts early in 1942 as the Japanese Army is over running the Pacific Islands, Burma, Malaya etc. A group of plantation owners, soldiers etc from the now Japanese occupied islands are formed into an espionage team. The team is sent out to gather intelligence and generally be a thorn in the side of the Axis. The series starred Jack Thompson, Redmond Phillips, Peter Sumner, Katy Wild and Bill Hunter. This is the second episode of the series which ran for 43 episodes during 1971 to 1973.
Redmond Phillips is an officer in the Australian Army charged with gathering info on the Japanese. He is also out to root out any German agents who might be placed in Australia. He has a pair of planters from the islands brought in to help. Jack Thompson and German ex-pat Peter Sumner make a most unlikely team. The two men had been in love with the same woman before the war. They do not like each other.
In this episode, Thompson and Sumner are parachuted into the jungles of Thailand. Their assignment is to steal the plans of the railway the Japanese are building from Indo-China to Burma.
The pair are soon captured and put to work with other Allied prisoners of war building the railway. The man in charge of building the project turns out to be an Australian officer. The man, John Meillon, is not at all liked by the rest of the fellow prisoners.
Thompson and Sumner, with help from the other prisoners get hold of the plans and flee into the jungle. There, they are led by the local underground to a pick up point for a trip back to Australia.
Most will recall John Meillon as Paul Hogan's pal in the Crocodile Dundee films.
This Australian series was set during World War Two in the Pacific. The series starts early in 1942 as the Japanese Army is over running the Pacific Islands, Burma, Malaya etc. A group of plantation owners, soldiers etc from the now Japanese occupied islands are formed into an espionage team. The team is sent out to gather intelligence and generally be a thorn in the side of the Axis. The series starred Jack Thompson, Redmond Phillips, Peter Sumner, Katy Wild and Bill Hunter. This is the second episode of the series which ran for 43 episodes during 1971 to 1973.
Redmond Phillips is an officer in the Australian Army charged with gathering info on the Japanese. He is also out to root out any German agents who might be placed in Australia. He has a pair of planters from the islands brought in to help. Jack Thompson and German ex-pat Peter Sumner make a most unlikely team. The two men had been in love with the same woman before the war. They do not like each other.
In this episode, Thompson and Sumner are parachuted into the jungles of Thailand. Their assignment is to steal the plans of the railway the Japanese are building from Indo-China to Burma.
The pair are soon captured and put to work with other Allied prisoners of war building the railway. The man in charge of building the project turns out to be an Australian officer. The man, John Meillon, is not at all liked by the rest of the fellow prisoners.
Thompson and Sumner, with help from the other prisoners get hold of the plans and flee into the jungle. There, they are led by the local underground to a pick up point for a trip back to Australia.
Most will recall John Meillon as Paul Hogan's pal in the Crocodile Dundee films.