Colditz (TV series) no actor was characterised to play, nor any mention was made of Squadron Leader/Group Captain Douglas Bader. He was the RAF pilot who lost both legs in a plane crash before the war and ended up in Colditz after various escape attempts from other camps. He remained imprisoned until the liberation. A 10-disc Region 2 Box Set DVD of the complete series was released on 15 November 2010 including bonus mock up cards of camp propaganda materials and a stapled character booklet. Colditz (TV series) Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened
The Colditz Story message. He announces to the assembled and cheering prisoners that Reid and Winslow have successfully crossed into neutral Switzerland. Information sourced to the BFI site. The theatre revue towards the end of the film, which the inmates use to mask the escape by Reid and Winslow, begins with a parody of the Will Fyffe song "I Belong to Glasgow", rendered "I Belong to Colditz". Ian Carmichael and Richard Wattis, playing two Grenadier Guards officers, perform a Flanagan and Allen routine, based on "Underneath the Arches". The film was the fourth most popular film at the British box office in 1955.