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Churchill's Bodyguard Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2005 - 2005
Episode 1
Walter Meets Winston
47 mins
In almost every piece of footage of Britain's great wartime leader Winston Churchill, is an anonymous figure: his bodyguard, Walter Thompson of Scotland Yard. This story tells how these very different characters met, and how the boy from the East End saved his boss from an IRA assassination attempt.
Episode 2
Lawrence & Walter Save the Day
47 mins
After he became Churchill's bodyguard, Walter Thompson was given the challenge of keeping his boss alive during a visit to the Middle East. A leading British politician was a natural target for assassins and on several critical occasions, Winston was rescued by the enigmatic - Lawrence of Arabia.
Episode 3
Nearly Killed in New York
47 mins
In 1929, Winston Churchill ceased to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Thompson sadly stopped guarding the man he had come to regard as a friend. But, within two years, Winston's outspoken views had gained him new and deadly enemies and Walter was recalled to protect him?
Episode 4
Indian Nationalist Assassin
47 mins
Having kept Churchill safe from assassination during a 1931 US lecture tour, Thompson soon left the police force. It also seemed that Winston's career was over. But a sinister new force, which saw Winston as an implacable enemy, was rising, and threats to his life brought the two men together again.
Episode 5
Nazi Sniper Plan
47 mins
In the 1930s, despite being out of office, Churchill's opposition to Hitler's regime made him a marked man. When war seemed inevitable, French Intelligence heard of a German plot to assassinate him. Immediately Winston called his former retired bodyguard Walter Thompson to protect him again.
Episode 6
Dangerous Travels
47 mins
After returning to government and leading the Admiralty, Churchill ascends to the Prime Minister's post on the very day that Hitler invades the Low Countries. He immediately embarks on an aggressive campaign of personal diplomacy. Much to Walter's worriment, his travels include six trips to France on flights well within range of Luftwaffe fighters.
Episode 7
Surviving the Blitz
47 mins
The early days of the war bring some of Churchill's most difficult--and dangerous--decisions. As bombs rain down on London, the Prime Minister stubbornly insists on walking the streets among the people, watching air raids from rooftops, and visiting anti-aircraft battalions, with only Walter to protect him from the terror above.
Episode 8
Attack at the Flying Boat Dock
47 mins
Running a gauntlet of U-boats in the North Atlantic, Churchill and Walter set sail for American in an unescorted ship to plot Allied strategy with Franklin Roosevelt. Disaster comes closest, however, as the Prime Minister prepares to board a flying boat for the trip home and a crazed gunman lurks nearby.
Episode 9
Winston's Double
47 mins
In 1942, Churchill crisscrosses North Africa and the Middle East and confers with Stalin in Moscow-logging much of the 200,000 miles he would travel during the war, under constant threat from assassins and Axis aircraft. In one instance in Algiers, General Dwight D. Eisenhower resorts to deception to keep Churchill safe.
Episode 10
Suicide Attack in Tehran
47 mins
After two Atlantic crossings and two trips across the length of the Mediterranean, Churchill grows increasingly frustrated with Roosevelt and suspicious of Stalin. When the three leaders meet in Tehran in 1943, the Germans launch operation Longjump--a plot in which elite commandoes parachute into the city, bent on assassination.
Episode 11
The Kiss of Life?
47 mins
Returning from the Tehran Conference, a sick, exhausted, disheartened Churchill survives his darkest night, with Walter keeping vigil at his bedside. Could Churchill have died of pneumonia that night in Tunisia?
Episode 12
The Sewer Bomb
47 mins
Only months after the D-Day invasion, the desperate Reich answers with a terrifying new weapon--V-2 rockets screaming into London. The stress affects even Churchill's normally unshakeable bodyguard, who spends weeks in a convalescent home. At a conference in Athens, however, the threat comes not from above, but from below, as security forces uncover a ton of explosives secreted near Churchill's hotel.
Episode 13
Love Him to Death
47 mins
V-E Day brings relief to the country but no respite for Walter. Jubilant crowds clamoring to touch their heroic Prime Minister pose almost as great a security risk as Nazi assassins had. Only later does Walter have the opportunity to reflect on his nearly 20-year relationship with the employer who had become his friend.