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''Piece of Cake'' is a six-part 1988 television series, depicting the life of a Royal Air Force fighter squadron from the day of the British entry into World War II through to one of the toughest days in the Battle of Britain (7 September 1940). The series was produced by Holmes Associates for London Weekend Television and had a budget of 5 million pounds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Piece of Cake - About Jeremy Northam )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/17251 )〕 The series is based on the 1983 novel ''Piece of Cake'', by Derek Robinson. In the book, the squadron is equipped with Hurricanes. The relative rarity of airworthy Hurricanes in the late 1980s precluded their use in the television series. The squadron depicted is the fictional ''Hornet Squadron'', which is equipped with Supermarine Spitfire fighters, and deployed to France, where it waits out the Phoney War in comfort and elegance, until the German attack on Western Europe in May 1940. One by one, nearly all of the original pilots are killed and as losses mount, the character of the squadron changes from a casual nonchalance to a fight for survival. By the end of the series, only four of the original fourteen officers have survived. Some of the major themes explored in the script include: the snobbery and class-consciousness that existed in the RAF during the era; the belief cherished by many of the pilots that the war would be fought as a sporting gentleman's contest; the inflexibility and ineffectiveness of the tactics used by RAF Fighter Command in early 1940 and the poor gunnery skills and inadequate training of many of the British pilots in the early days of World War II. Like Robinson's original novel, the story spans the first year of the war, from September 1939 to the German Luftwaffe's first massed aerial assault on London on 7 September 1940. ==Main cast== *Squadron Leader Ramsey (Pilot. Commanding Officer. Killed 1939) – Jack McKenzie *Squadron Leader Rex (Pilot. Ramsey's successor. Killed 1940) – Tim Woodward *Flight Lieutenant Marriott (Engineering Officer. Killed 1940) – Stephen MacKenna *Flight Lieutenant 'Uncle' Kellaway (Adjutant) – David Horovitch *Flight Lieutenant 'Fanny' Barton (Pilot and Flight Commander. Succeeded Rex as C.O. May 1940) – Tom Burlinson *Flying Officer 'Skull' Skelton (Intelligence Officer) – Richard Hope *Flying Officer 'Moggy' Cattermole (Pilot. Killed 1940) – Neil Dudgeon *Flying Officer 'Pip' Patterson (Pilot) – George Anton *Flying Officer 'Flip' Moran (Pilot and Flight Commander. Killed 1940) – Gerard O'Hare *Flying Officer 'Flash' Gordon (Pilot. Killed 1940) – Nathaniel Parker *Pilot Officer 'Fitz' Fitzgerald (Pilot. Killed 1940) – Jeremy Northam *Pilot Officer 'Zab' Zabarnowski (Pilot. Killed 1940) – Tomek Bork *Pilot Officer 'Sticky' Stickwell (Pilot. Killed 1940) – Gordon Lovitt *Pilot Officer 'Mother' Cox (Pilot. Wounded in Action 1940) – Patrick Bailey *Pilot Officer Hart (Replacement Pilot. U.S. Volunteer. Killed 1940) – Boyd Gaines *Pilot Officer 'Dickie' Starr (Pilot. Killed 1939) – Tom Radcliffe *Pilot Officer 'Moke' Miller (Pilot. Killed 1940) – Mark Womack *Mary (Schoolteacher and wife to Fitz. Widowed 1940) - Helena Michell *Pilot Officer Trevelyan (Pilot. Killed 1940) - Jason Calder *Pilot Officer 'Dumbo' Dutton (Pilot. Killed 1940) - Sam Miller *Pilot Officer 'Boy' Lloyd (Pilot. Killed 1940) - Timothy Lyn *LAC Todd (Ground-Crew)- Neil Clark *LAC Gullet (Batman)- John Bleasdale *Medical Officer- Richard Durden *Henri- (Cafe Owner)- Daniel Andre Pageon *Air Commodore Bletchley - Michael Elwyn 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Piece of Cake (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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