The Dragon's Opponent(1973)

The Dragon's Opponent is a four-part miniseries following the extraordinary true story of Charles "Mad Jack" Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk. During World War II, this eccentric aristocrat orchestrated a daring rescue operation that spirited dozens of European nuclear scientists, tonnes of heavy water, and millions in diamonds out of France before the Nazi occupation. After returning to Britain, Howard reinvented himself as a self-taught bomb disposal expert, risking his life to defuse German ordnance during the London Blitz. The series chronicles his audacious wartime adventures and the unlikely heroism of a man whose unconventional methods and fearless determination made him one of the conflict's most remarkable figures.