P.O.W. (TV series)

P.O.W.
Genre	War Drama
Created by	Matthew Graham Matt Jones
Written by	Matthew Graham Matt Jones
Directed by	Roger Gartland John Strickland
Starring	James D'Arcy Anatole Taubman Ewan Stewart Shaun Dooley Craig Heaney Patrick Baladi Joe Absolom Sam Spruell Marius Jampolskis Amelia Curtis
Composer	Debbie Wiseman
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	George Faber Matt Jones Charles Pattinson
Producers	Victoria Fea Gary Tuck
Production location	Lithuania
Running time	48 Mins (Without Adverts)
Production companies	Company Pictures Company Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	10 October (2003-10-10) – 14 November 2003 (2003-11-14)
Related
Colditz Island at War

P.O.W. was a television series consisting of 6 episodes, broadcast on ITV in 2003. The series starred James D'Arcy and Joe Absolom. The drama series is based on true stories, set in Germany in the year 1940 and follows the character of Jim Caddon as he is captured after his plane crashes during a bombing raid over Normandy. In contrast to previous entries in the World War Two prison escape genre such as The Colditz Story, it concentrated on escape attempts by other ranks rather than officers. The series was filmed in Lithuania and first broadcast on television on 10 October 2003. A second series has not been commissioned, though ITV followed it with several other World War Two dramas including Colditz and Island at War. The title "P.O.W." stands for "prisoner of war".

Cast

• James D'Arcy - Jim Caddon
• Joe Absolom - Drew Pritchard
• Anatole Taubman - Kommandant Dreiber
• Shaun Dooley - Brown
• Ewan Stewart - John Stevens
• Craig Heaney - Larry Boyd
• Patrick Baladi - Captain Attercombe
• Sam Spruell - Wilkes
• Amelia Curtis - Alice Dreiber

DVD Extras

After the series aired it was released on DVD, by Acorn Media UK, containing the following extras:

• Production notes
• Picture gallery
• Interactive menus
• Scene selection
• P.O.W. Hooch recipe
• Cast filmographies
• P.O.W. slang dictionary

External links

• P.O.W. at IMDb