Private Schulz is a six-part 1981 television comedy-drama serial written by Jack Pulman and produced for BBC Two. It stars Michael Elphick in the title role, with Ian Richardson, Tony Caunter, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Murray, and Mark Wingett. Set primarily in Germany, during and immediately following World War II, fraudster and petty criminal Gerhard Schulz is forced to serve in the SS. In a story based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, Schulz tricks the Nazis into making counterfeit British £5 notes, millions of which will be used to destroy the British economy.
Creator: Jack Pulman
Network: BBC One
Seasons
1
Episodes
6
Status
Ended
Michael Elphick
Gerhard Schulz
Ian Richardson
Major Neuheim
Cyril Shaps
Solly
Ronald Baddiley
British Newsreel Commentator (voice, uncredited)
Billie Whitelaw
Bertha Freyer
Terence Suffolk
Willy Schumacher
Walter Sparrow
Becker
Clive Merrison
Radio Announcer (voice)
2024