Orde Wingate Turn You to the Strong Hold (Season 1, Episode 3)
TV Episode | Drama

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Orde Wingate

Turn You to the Strong Hold (Season 1, Episode 3)

TV Episode | Drama

Reduced in rank to Major, Wingate is given a second chance by General Wavell who posts him to India. Windgate's ideas are scorned by fellow officers but he forms the Chindits to use for a long-range jungle penetration mission into Burma.

Director

Bill Hays

Writer

Don Shaw

Producer

Innes Lloyd

Production Designer

David Myerscough-Jones

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Updated Jul 30, 1976

Release date

Jul 30, 1976 (United Kingdom)

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19 cast members

Name	Known for
Barry Foster Orde Wingate Orde Wingate See fewer	Frenzy (1972)
Nigel Stock General Wavell / Churchill General Wavell / Churchill See fewer	The Great Escape (1963)
Dennis Chinnery Reporter Reporter See fewer	Doctor Who (1963)
Christopher Coll Indian Army Officer Indian Army Officer See fewer	Doctor Who (1963)
James Cosmo Brigadier Calvert Brigadier Calvert See fewer	Braveheart (1995)
Arnold Diamond Chaim Weizmann Chaim Weizmann See fewer	Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Denholm Elliott Senior Officer, Delhi Senior Officer, Delhi See fewer	A Room with a View (1985)
Sandor Elès David Mitzman David Mitzman See fewer	Love and Death (1975)
Clive Graham Staff Officer Staff Officer See fewer	Johnny English (2003)
James Grout Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Mother Love (1989)
Andrew Hawkins Chindit Chindit See fewer	Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Bernard Hepton Palmer Palmer See fewer	Get Carter (1971)
Kathleen Michael Lady Wavell Lady Wavell See fewer	Young and Willing (1954)
Edmund Pegge Chindit Chindit See fewer	Never Too Late (I) (2020)
George Roubicek Indian Army Officer Indian Army Officer See fewer	The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Sheila Ruskin Lorna Lorna See fewer	Mackenzie (1980)
Anthony Verner Pilot Pilot See fewer	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1966)
John White Lieutenant Lieutenant See fewer	Tentacles (1977)
Vincent Wong Chindit Chindit See fewer	Batman Begins (2005)