- #Piece of cake short film watch serial#
- #Piece of cake short film watch series#
Flying Officer 'Skull' Skelton ( Intelligence Officer) – Richard Hope. Succeeded Rex as Commanding Officer May 1940) – Tom Burlinson Flight Lieutenant 'Fanny' Barton (Pilot and Flight Commander. Flight Lieutenant 'Uncle' Kellaway ( Adjutant) – David Horovitch. Flight Lieutenant Marriott ( Engineering Officer. Like Robinson's original novel, the story spans the first year of the war, from September 1939 to the German Luftwaffe's first massed aerial assault on London on 7 September 1940. Some of the major themes explored in the script include: the snobbery and class-consciousness that existed in the RAF during the era the belief cherished by many of the pilots that the war would be fought as a sporting gentleman's contest the inflexibility and ineffectiveness of the tactics used by RAF Fighter Command in early 1940 and the poor gunnery skills and inadequate training of many of the British pilots in the early days of World War II. By the end of the series, only four of the original fourteen officers have survived. One by one, nearly all of the original pilots are killed and as losses mount, the character of the squadron changes from a casual nonchalance to a fight for survival. The squadron depicted is the fictional Hornet Squadron, which is equipped with Supermarine Spitfire fighters, and deployed to France, where it waits out the Phoney War in comfort and elegance, until the German attack on Western Europe in May 1940. The relative rarity of airworthy Hurricanes in the late 1980s precluded their use in the television series. 
In the book, the squadron is equipped with Hurricanes.
#Piece of cake short film watch series#
The series is based on the 1983 novel Piece of Cake, by Derek Robinson.
The series was produced by Holmes Associates for LWT for ITV and had a budget of five million pounds.
#Piece of cake short film watch serial#
Piece of Cake is a 1988 British six-part television serial depicting the life of a Royal Air Force fighter squadron from the day of the British entry into World War II through to one of the toughest days in the Battle of Britain (7 September 1940).
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