Private Schulz
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.
- Created by
- Jack Pulman
- First aired
- May 6, 1981
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 6
- Country
- AU, GB
Watch Private Schulz
S1 E1: Part One
S1 E1 Part One
May 6, 1981Recently released from prison, Gerhard Schulz is drafted into the SS Counter-Espionage division, under Major Neuheim. His first assignment is eavesdropping on clients at the Salon Kitty brothel where he meets Bertha, the madam. After recommendinh to Neuheim the forging of British £5 notes, Schulz is tasked with assembling a group of forgers.
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