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 Crew Director – Ian Toynton Producer – Andrew Holmes Associate producers – Adrian Bate and Robert Eagle Executive producer – Linda Agran Episodes Releases The series (in its complete original format of six episodes) was released on Region-1 DVD through BFS Entertainment in a 3-disc set in 2000 and has been re-issued in a new edition (also via BFS and in Region 1) in March 2011. When the series was screened on Network Seven in Australia in 1990, the original run-time of over five hours was shortened to less than four so that it could be shown in two two-hour episodes (plus commercials). In order to condense the series, a considerable amount of footage was cut, mostly from scenes on the ground including some entire scenes such as when Chris Hart invites one of the ground-crew LAC Todd to play squash and the press conference held on Hornet Squadron's airfield in France. Production Six mock-up Spitfires were built as static or ground-running props. Most were destroyed during the air-raid sequences later in filming. Original plans called for six Spitfires to be used in the UK filming of the series (a Mk.1a, a Mk.VIIIc, three Mk.IXs and a PR.Mk.XI), but the owner of the Mk.VIIIc could not participate after a family member was severely injured in an unrelated air accident and filming commenced with five Spitfires painted in a generic period-correct scheme. A sixth Spitfire was flown in the US for the bomber shoot-down scenes with a Heinkel