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Next Episode is "Fly There Walk Back" video.google.com Buy complete series here www.amazon.co.uk Pathfinders' own roll-call of guest stars includes Rutger Hauer, Jane Seymour, Bernard Lee, Kate O'Mara, Dennis Waterman, Johnny Briggs, Mark McManus, Anthony Valentine, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Ray Brooks, Diane Keen, Tony Selby and late-1950s American teen idol Edd Byrnes ('Kookie' in 77 Sunset Strip). Filmed at EMI-MGM Studios in Borehamwood, Bovingdon airfield and other locations in Hertfordshire, and West Malling airfield in Kent, five directors worked on the 13-episode run, including Leslie Norman (father of film critic Barry Norman), Don Chaffey and Jeremy Summers. Based on actual events recounted by former Pathfinder Force (PFF) personnel and others, teleplays were provided by the likes of Hazel Adair, Peter Ling, Bruce Stewart, Bill Strutton, Tony Barwick and Christopher Penfold, who also acted as script supervisor (a role he has subsequently filled for series as diverse as Space: 1999 and Midsomer Murders). Great efforts were made to ensure authenticity, with former Group Captain Hamish Mahaddie, Air Vice-Marshal DCT Bennett and Luftwaffe nightfighter ace Willi Herget retained as technical advisors. The pilot episode Into The Fire opens with a short pre-credit sequence, in which F/Lt Peter Curtis's Avro Lancaster Mk 3 overshoots the runway during his first attempt to land at RAF Oakwood, in East Anglia, cutting swiftly to the series' late-1960s-style opening <b>...</b> |
