Nice that you enjoyed it.

Harry's already married, Adam, so behave yourself! And as for the "Hang the DJ" lyric, that definitely could get you cancelled these days - but I like it.

The Air Vice-Marshal is not pleased with you, Jason. He personally chose the music. He had commanded me to upload you to his video for eternity. Then you will have time to learn to appreciate the music.

Hello Hassan, I've flagged your comments for auto-approval in future. I remember my dad trying to identify the plane all those years ago.

First plane looks like a vampire, the two black jets are Lockheed T33 trainers hence the two seats@@icetorch1

@@ubahnx Thank you.

Recant, fiend, and adopt an orphaned sild for Christmas!

It was a one-off drama, not a series, but I had to split it into parts to upload in onto KZbin. Hope you enjoy it. It was very faithful to the book, both in feel and content, as I recall.

+paulmurphy42 Glad you like it, Paul. I'd never ever seen it repeated on the BBC in the UK, but apparently it has aired at other times in various places.

You're welcome, fruitcake4t!

Rex Warner wrote the novel "Aerodrome" in 1941 as his attempt to explain fascism. The BBC drama was closely based on his novel. Here's one deep analysis by somebody who watched the film: "This film has a dreamlike quality that is hard to pin down. The events do not take place in a realistically presented future, rather an amalgam of 30s rural Britain and 80s military hardware. There is a slightly surreal approach to the proceedings that place the story clearly in the allegorical. As a drama, I didn't think it was entirely successful. It plays like a melodrama, with added splashes of magic realism. But I was fascinated by the premise of the dystopia itself, which is convincingly done and very unsettling. The writer, Robin Chapman from the novel by Rex Warner, appears to have been influenced by the form of military fascism that arose in Japan, rather than reaching for the old German or Italian standbys we're more familiar with. In this context, the pre-war rural English idyll stands for Manchuria in the 1920s - and the Aerodrome itself (all chocks away stiff upper lip RAF-iness) as the occupation by the Japanese Army. The rise of the Aerodrome mirroring the real-life rise of the Kōdōha within the 1920s Japanese military. The mix of styles and time periods brings the two cultures into startling conflict - as the practically medieval Manchurian peasant communities must have undergone when confronted by a modern rapacious military machine. Gradually, the authority of the Aerodrome spills out and takes control of every aspect of village life. There are chilling scenes of the takeover of the village, involving locals becoming slave labour for the RAF types. Again, obvious parallels to the situation in pre-war Manchuria. Finally, the military begin to feel their power, the Air Commander despises the weakness of the democratic politicians he nominally serves - and puts in place plans to take over the entire country. Just as Tojo used Manchuria as a springboard for the take-over of Japan itself. It is a very scary process to watch - made even more unsettling when watched in the knowledge that this process had been beginning in the late 70s in Northern Ireland, where a let-off-the-leash security service had begun to dream of controlling the weak liberal democracy it was supposed to be defending. All this led to the botched coup plans against Harold Wilson's government, that thankfully never got very far. More seriously, the security service, in linking up with loyalist paramilitaries, did indeed overstep their authority to a degree that is only now beginning to become clear. I don't know how much of all this was available to the makers of The Aerodrome, but it does seem that in the late 70s/early 80s, the Manchurian model of military takeover was a much more likely path to fascist dictatorship in Britain, than any kind of Hitler-like messianic rise."