TV Show Details
Air Date:May 6th, 1981
Last Air Date:June 10th, 1981
Network:BBC One
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama , Comedy , Crime , War & Politics
Original Language:English
Production Companies:BBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Private Schulz (1981)
BBC One
Miniseries
Audience Score
Plot
Private Schulz is a six-part 1981 television comedy-drama serial written by Jack Pulman and produced for BBC Two. It stars Michael Elphick in the title role, with Ian Richardson, Tony Caunter, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Murray, and Mark Wingett.
Set primarily in Germany, during and immediately following World War II, fraudster and petty criminal Gerhard Schulz is forced to serve in the SS. In a story based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, Schulz tricks the Nazis into making counterfeit British £5 notes, millions of which will be used to destroy the British economy.
