Below is an incomplete list of fictional television series which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
1950s
YearYearCountryMain title(Alternative titles)Original title(Original script)Battles, campaigns, events depicted19551958United States19561957United StatesDrama-action. North African campaign US Army espionage group19571957United KingdomDrama. Allied soldiers attempting POW camp escapes; six episodes19571958United KingdomOSS in occupied France19571958United StatesDrama. USN submarine service
1960s
YearYearCountryMain title(Alternative titles)Original title(Original script)Battles, campaigns, events depicted19601960East GermanyToter Winkel Blind Spot (TV)Drama. German farm girl at odds with forced-labor camp, guards guilty of war crimes on verge of Soviet occupation period after war during 1945 directed by Wolfgang Luderer19611963United StatesAlcoa Premiere"Seven Against the Sea" (1962 episode)Drama. US PT Boat island base decimated by Japanese forces in Pacific Campaign; pilot episode for comedy McHale's Navy19621963United StatesDrama. US Fifth Army company in Italian Campaign19621966United StatesMcHale's NavyComedy. Misadventures of misfit PT Boat crew in Pacific Campaign and (later) Italian Campaign19621967United StatesCombat!Drama. Frontline American infantry squad battling across France19631963United KingdomMoonstrike The series was an anthology programme: a collection of self-contained stories about acts of resistance in occupied Europe during the Second World War.19641965United StatesBroadsideComedy. WAVES (navy women) transferred to South Pacific Theatre to run motorpool on island; spinoff from McHale's Navy19641967United StatesComedy. Island is captured by Japanese sailorComedy. Wartime sea mine in lagoonComedy. Gorilla armed with wartime grenades19641967United StatesTwelve O'Clock HighDrama. Missions of USAAF Bomber Group stationed on English air base and equipped with B-17s; based on 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High19651965United StatesConvoyDrama. Supply convoys and German U-boats in Atlantic Theatre that focused on an American destroyer escort and lead convoy freighter19651965PolandPodziemny frontPolish resistance, 1941–4519651966United StatesMister RobertsComedy. US Navy cargo ship in South Pacific; based on 1955 film Mister Roberts19651966United StatesComedy. Spy scow/schooner based in the South Pacific Theatre; spinoff of film The Wackiest Ship in the Army19651971United StatesHogan's HeroesComedy. Allied prisoners in German Stalag19661966United StatesBlue LightDrama.19661966United KingdomCourt MartialDrama. Judge Advocate General's office investigating crime during war19661967United StatesJerichoDrama. Espionage19661968United StatesLong Range Desert Patrol19661970PolandFour Tank Men and a DogCzterej pancerni i piesTank crew, their dog, and their T-34 tank in 1st Polish Army on Eastern Front, 1943–4519671968United StatesGarrison's GorillasAdventure-drama. Allied convicts recruited as commandos behind Nazi lines with offer of a post-war parole and inspired by The Dirty Dozen film; 26 episodes19671968PolandMore Than Life at StakeStawka większa niż życieKapitan Hans Kloss, Poland and Germany, 1941–4519681977United KingdomDad's ArmyComedy. English Home Guard19691969United KingdomManhunt
1970s
YearYearCountryMain title(Alternative titles)Original title(Original script)Battles, campaigns, events depicted19701970East GermanyJeder stirbt für sich allein19701972United KingdomA Family at War19711973AustraliaSpyforceAction/drama. Australian series about the fictional Special Intelligence Unit (based on the real Services Reconnaissance Department)19711971East GermanyRottenknechte19711974GreeceUnknown WarfareO Agnostos Polemos (Άγνωστος Πόλεμος)Drama. The adventures of a colonel of the counter-espionage service of Greece during the war. (226 episodes; remade in 1987)19721973United KingdomPathfindersRAF pathfinding missions19721974United KingdomColditzColditz Castle POW camp19731973Soviet UnionSeventeen Moments of SpringSemnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny (Семнадцать мгновений весны)Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany19731974United StatesRoll OutComedy-drama. Quartermaster Trucking Company of US Third Army's "Red Ball Express" in France19741974CzechoslovakiaOnce upon a time there was a houseByl jednou jeden důmThe fate of the inhabitants of a house before and during WWII.19741974YugoslaviaOtpisani19741975CanadaWitness to YesterdayDrama (talk show format).The deceased historical figures are played by actors. Broadcaster Patrick Watson aggressively "interviews" historical figures, including Norman Bethune († 1939)19741981United KingdomIt Ain't Half Hot MumComedy.19751977United StatesWonder WomanAction/Drama/Sci-fi. Fictional stories of Wonder Woman battling Nazis.19751975PolandHungaryThird BorderTrzecia granica Polish Resistance in Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary19751975YugoslaviaThe Farm in the Small Marsh19761976IranMy Uncle Napoleonداییجان ناپلئونComedy. Tehran under Allied occupation19761977United KingdomYanks Go HomeComedy.19761978United StatesBaa Baa Black SheepGregory 'Pappy' Boyington and Marine Air Squadron during Pacific War19761983AustraliaThe SullivansDrama. The effects World War II has on the lives of an average middle-class Melbourne family19771978United KingdomBacks to the LandComedy. Land Girls19771979United StatesOperation Petticoat (Life in the Pink)Comedy. USS Sea Tiger, pink submarine in South West Pacific Theatre; spinoff of film Operation Petticoat19771979United KingdomBelgiumSecret ArmyDrama. Belgian Resistance; followed by 1981 series Kessler19781981DenmarkMatadorMatadorFictional Danish town of Korsbæk, 1929–194719781978United StatesPearl19781978YugoslaviaPovratak otpisanih19781978United StatesHolocaust19791979United KingdomDanger UXBBritish/PBS Drama centering on a Royal Engineers high explosives disposal unit operating in London defusing un-exploded bombs during the Blitz.19791979United StatesIke
1980s
YearYearCountryMain title(Alternative titles)Original title(Original script)Battles, campaigns, events depicted19801980United StatesGoodtime GirlsComedy. Women's war effort on the homefront (Washington, D.C.)19801980East GermanyArchiv des Todes19811981United KingdomKesslerDrama. Former SS Sturmbannführer living under alias of industrialist to avoid discovery as war criminal; sequel to 1977–79 series Secret Army19811981United KingdomPrivate Schulz19811984United KingdomAustraliaTenkoWomen interned after the Battle of Singapore19811981AustraliaA Town Like Alice19821992United KingdomComedy. Café in Occupied France, French Resistance, Communist Resistance, RAF, Stalag, Italian expeditionary forces, art heists, 1940–194419821992United KingdomWe'll Meet Again19831983United StatesBased on film Casablanca19831983United StatesEvents that lead to WWII up to Pearl Harbor from the perspective of two families19831983United KingdomThe Fourth Arm19841984AustraliaThe Last BastionMini-series about Australia's relationship with its allies during World War II19841984East GermanyFront ohne Gnade19841984IrelandCaught in a Free State19841984United KingdomThe Jewel in the CrownThe last days of the British Raj during and after WWII in India. Based on the four novels by Paul Scott known collectively as "The Raj Quartet." 19841984United KingdomStrangers and Brothers Drama based of the novel series of the same name by C. P. Snow.19851985AustraliaThe Cowra BreakoutSemi-fictional mini-series about the Cowra breakout, August 194419851985ItalyMussolini: The Untold Story19851985SwedenRød snø19851985AustraliaThe Dunera BoysMini-series based on the Dunera incident, 1940-194119851985United StatesJenny's WarWoman launches rescue of RAF pilot son downed over Germany, 194119851985CzechoslovakiaVlak dětsví a nadějeThe Train of Childhood and ExpectationThe story of a family from the Czechoslovak borderlands in the pre-war period and during the Second World War.19871987United KingdomThe Diary of Anne Frank19871987United KingdomFortunes of War19871987AustraliaNancy WakeDrama. Mini-series about the exploits of New Zealand born SOE Operative and French Resistance member Nancy Wake19881988United StatesYugoslaviaDirty Dozen: The SeriesThis film is an international co-production shot in English.Allied prisoners trained for "do or die" missions; spinoff of The Dirty Dozen19881988United KingdomPiece of CakeRAF from Phoney War through Battle of Britain19881989United StatesContinues the story of The Winds of War starting on 15 December 1941 and ending on 7 August 194519881991PolandPogranicze w ogniuAction-drama. German and Polish counter-espionage from 1918 to 193919881990United KingdomWish Me LuckDrama-espionage. SOE women in German-occupied France19891989AustraliaTanamera – Lion of SingaporeDrama based on novel.19891989AustraliaUnited KingdomThe HeroesMini-series about the Allied commando raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Jaywick
1990s
YearYearCountryMain title(Alternative titles)Original title(Original script)Battles, campaigns, events depicted19901990Soviet UnionThe cry of a quailПлач перепёлкиWar.19911991United KingdomAustraliaHeroes II: The ReturnSequel to The Heroes about a second commando raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Rimau19921992DenmarkBlackoutMørklægningThriller. German occupation of Denmark and Danish war-tired and ill19931993United KingdomDemobComedy-drama. Two demobilized soldiers19941994Czech RepublicUnited KingdomFranceItalyRussiaLife and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan ChonkinŽvot a neobyčejná dobrodružství vojáka Ivana ČonkinaComedy, Romance, War.19941994United KingdomSeaforthDrama. British homefront conman19941994United KingdomWhich Way to the WarComedy. British and Australian Desert Rats and Italian nurses in North Africa; pilot episode only19961996United KingdomOver Here19971997SingaporeHépíng de dàijià (和平的代價)Japanese occupation of Singapore19981998United KingdomComing Home (TV serial)Drama. Wartime experiences of Judith, a schoolgirl and young woman.19981998Czech RepublicTři královéDrama. Resistance efforts in German occupation of Czechoslovakia; seven episodes19991999GermanyRiding the StormSturmzeit19991999GermanyKlemperer – Ein Leben in DeutschlandDrama based on Charlotte Link trilogy. East Prussian home front through both World WarsCharlotte Link: Sturmzeit, Teil I - V at buecher.de . Retrieved 2012-07-05. The information on Sturmzeit at the IMDb is scanty.
2000s