1x1 - The General

August 2, 1971

The Japanese army have invaded New Ireland and plantation owners, Erskine and Haber have fled to Australia leaving behind a woman they both love. They are offered/coerced by Australian intelligence, a chance to rescue her, if they first go in and kidnap a German officer who is visiting the island.

1x2 - Death Railway

September 2, 1971

Erskine and Haber are sent to Siam to be deliberately captured so they can obtain a blueprint of the Buma - Siam railway, which is being built by allied prisoners.

1x3 - Portuguese Man Of War

August 16, 1971

German saboteurs are attacking wartime installations. Erskine is sent to track down the saboteurs supply lines in the Portuguese fishing community, while Haber is interned in a prison with some captured Germans to learn their plans.

1x4 - The Prisoner

August 23, 1971

Erskine and Haber break into the notorious Changi Prison in Singapore to rescue a British bacteriologist.

1x5 - The Bridge

September 30, 1971

A plan to blow up the Sydney Harbour Bridge is discover by Erskine and Haber.

1x6 - The Trader

September 6, 1971

Erskine and Haber take refuge at a trading post while evacuating a small party from New Guinea. Suspicion grows that one of the party is in league with the enemy.

1x7 - The Escape

September 13, 1971

Erskine and Haber guard German aeronautics expert Gen. Gustav Hochstraadt against an escape attempt.

1x8 - 27 Hours

September 20, 1971

Erskine and Haber take Gen. Hochstraadt on a direct 27 hour flight to Colombo where he is to be handed over to the British.

1x9 - The Volunteers - part one

September 27, 1971

Erskine and Haber lead a daring raid against enemy shipping in Singapore Harbour, however it becomes obvious that one of the group is determined to sabotage the attempt.

1x10 - The Volunteers - part two

October 4, 1971

A saboteur endangers the mission in Singapore Harbour, and Haber is faced with the decision of abandoning Erskine to certain capture, or picking Erskine up and risking the lives of all the others on the mission.

1x11 - The Countess

August 30, 1971

Erskine and Haber make contact with the Countess in Macau, to obtain information on Japanese troop movements.

1x12 - The Cripple

October 18, 1971

Erskine is shot and loses the use of his legs. The doctor suspects the disability is only psychosomatic.

1x13 - The Assassin

November 13, 1971

A top German assassin is sent to Australia to kill General MacArthur. Cato has a devious plan to protect MacArthur - without his approval.

1x14 - The Tunku

December 11, 1971

Erskine and Haber are sent to Malaya to prevent the Tunku of the Selegore area from making a broadcast to his people instructing them to cease resisting the Japanese.

1x15 - The Gunner

November 8, 1971

Haber and Jill Stewart are in New Guinea to sink Japanese shipping in Lae Harbour, and need help from a sole surviving, mentally unbalanced member of a lost artillery unit.

1x16 - The Saviour - part one

November 22, 1971

Erskine, Haber and Lt. French go to New Guinea to bring back a pacifist doctor wanted by the Americans due to his involvement with the atom bomb research.

1x17 - The Saviour - part two

December 18, 1971

Erskine, Haber and Lt. French go to New Guinea to bring back a pacifist doctor wanted by the Americans due to his involvement with the atom bomb research.

1x18 - The Samurai

January 12, 1972

Erskine and Haber are sent to an occupied island to assassinate a high-ranking Japanese Intelligence officer, who models his life on the 11th century Samurai.

1x19 - The Bunker

January 12, 1972

Erskine, Haber and two Japanese soldiers spend Christmas Eve trapped in a bunker under heavy fire from Allied and Japanese artillery.

1x20 - Reilley's Army

September 23, 1971

Erskine and Haber go to New Guinea to bring back Reilley, who has been waging a private war with the japanese thus jeopardising Allied coastwatchers.

1x21 - The Courier

March 8, 1972

Erskine and Lt. French are stranded in the desert by a German agent while escorting a captured Japanese courier from Darwin to Sydney.

1x22 - The Doctor

January 26, 1972

German agents abduct the wife of a doctor in order to force his aid in sabotaging the supply of penicillin to Allied troops.

1x23 - The Major

January 5, 1972

Erskine and Jill Stewart go to Burma to blow up a bridge the Japanese are using to advance north into China. They find a British regiment left behind as a ‘tactical rear guard’.

1x24 - The Lovers

Erskine and Haber evacuate a Patrol Officer and two civilians from New Guinea. One of civilians, Haber had former relationship with.

1x26 - The Diplomat

February 9, 1972

A Japanese cabinet minister wants to organise a peace treaty as he is does not think Japan can win the war. Haber, impersonating Col. Cato, is sent to a Japanese island for a meeting with the cabinet minister.

1x27 - The District Commissioner

February 23, 1972

The local District Commissioner stops Erskine from using the radio to organise a retreat as he is obsessed with holding the line.

1x28 - The Troupers

March 15, 1972

A group of entertainers who have visited many of the Allied camps are captured by the Japanese. Erskine and Haber are sent to rescue them before the Japanese can learn the locations of the camps.

1x29 - The Encounter

March 22, 1972

An American deserter is captured by Erskine as Col. Cato suspects he is being using as a scapegoat to cover a more serious war crime.

1x30 - The Breakout

November 13, 1972

hen a number of Australian soldiers are captured, Erskine is sent to New Guinea to break them out of a holding camp before the Japanese can learn of Allied troop movements.

1x31 - The Interrogator

January 19, 1972

Cato and Lt. French are en route to an Intelligence Conference when they are captured by Germans. Cato is subject to an interrogation to obtain details of Allied troop ship movements.

1x32 - The Raiders

April 19, 1972

A Japanese sub has been raiding northern Australia. Haber and explosives expert Owen Davies, an unreliable drunk, are sent to destroy it.

1x33 - The Forger

April 17, 1972

Haber and Parsons are sent to track down a counterfeit ring which appears to be centred in a small Queensland country town.

1x34 - The Correspondent

March 27, 1972

An American news correspondent jeopardised a mission when he reveals details of the operation.

1x35 - The Double Agent

December 4, 1972

Haber takes the place of a captured German agent in order to track down the suppliers of a German sub operating off the coast of Australia.

1x36 - The Misfits

January 29, 1973

Erskine and Haber are sent to rescue a cypher expert from a Japanese prison camp, but a group of misfit soldiers also at the camp cause problems.

1x37 - The Mission

December 2, 1972

Erskine has an attack of malaria which forces him to seek shelter in a mission on a Japanese occupied island. The mission has an uneasy truce with the Japanese, which Erskine's presence shatters completely.

1x38 - The Journey

December 9, 1972

On an escape flight from Burma, Erskine and Haber share a plane with five refugees, one of whom is a secret British agent. It is discovered that someone is radioing the plane's position to the Japanese, and then shortly after one of the passengers is murdered.

1x39 - The Decoy

January 15, 1973

Erskine is sent to a Pacific island to blow up a Japanese fuel dump, as a cover for an Allied attack on a nearby island. Upon arrival he finds British women and their families held captive by the Japanese.

1x40 - The Murder

January 20, 1973

Col. Cato supposedly dies of a heart attack while working at his desk, but Erskine, Haber and French find evidence that he was murdered, and they work to expose the cover-up.

1x41 - The Trail

June 14, 1972

Erskine accompanies two Army nurses to a medical aid station on the Kakoda Trail in New Guinea. When he discovers a Japanese platoon in the region his report is ignored by the General in command of the area, who refuses to allow the post to be evacuated.

1x42 - The Rolls That Went To War

February 2, 1973

Erskine's plane is shot down, and he is washed ashore on an isolated peninsula in Malaya. He is found by a group of Allied agents who crash-landed some months previously and are hiding out in an abandoned mansion. Erskine is wary of the group, but he must depend on them to help destroy a bridge, which is vital to Allied war efforts.