All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 D-Day

    • November 3, 2004
    • Discovery Channel (UK)

    The funnyman drives his Jeep along one of the British invasion beaches where he meets the four surviving crew members who manned a Bren gun carrier from the First Suffolk Regiment during World War Two.

  • S01E02 The Battle for Normandy

    • November 10, 2004
    • Discovery Channel (UK)

    The comedian drives through bocage country with D-Day survivors from the 2nd Battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry.

  • S01E03 The Push for Paris

    • November 17, 2004
    • Discovery Channel (UK)

    Meeting those who defeated the 12th SS Panzer Division. Survivors reveal how the Allies suffered relatively few losses in their campaign to decimate the 12th SS Panzer Division.

  • S01E04 Hitler's Secret Weapon

    • November 24, 2004
    • Discovery Channel (UK)

    Hitler's high-tech weapons of mass destruction. The intrepid comic visits rocket bunkers along the Franco-Belgian coast, meeting former PoWs who were forced to assemble Hitler's hi-tech weaponry.

  • S01E05 Arnhem

    • December 1, 2004
    • Discovery Channel (UK)

    The comedian skydives with survivors of the 1st Parachute Brigade, who jumped into the bloody battle at Arnhem during World War Two.

  • S01E06 Air War

    • December 8, 2004
    • Discovery Channel (UK)

    The comedian talks to Lancaster bomber crewmen, RAF pilots of World War Two share their recollections with the comedian, who finds out what the Lancaster bomber was like to fly.

  • S01E07 The Battle of the Bulge

    • December 15, 2004
    • Discovery Channel (UK)

    The comedian meets a German tank crew in the Ardennes. The comedian climbs into the cockpit of one of their machines, similar to the ones used in the Battle of the Bulge.

  • S01E08 The Eastern Front

    • December 22, 2004
    • Discovery Channel (UK)

    The comedian meets Polish survivors of the Eastern Front and hitches a ride in a T34 tank, the leading vehicle with tracks used during World War Two.

  • S01E09 Crossing the Rhine

    • December 29, 2004
    • Discovery Channel (UK)

    The comic actor meets survivors of the 1st Commando and 1st Cheshire Regiments, reuniting them with survivors of the 21st Army Group, whom they fought alongside.

  • S01E10 The Battle for Berlin

    • December 29, 2004
    • Discovery Channel (UK)

    Roving comic Al Murray finally arrives in Berlin, the comic actor visits the site of Hitler's bunker and meets survivors of the final siege on Berlin.