The Dragon's Opponent

• 1973
• •
• Ended

4-part miniseries dramatising the true-life adventures of Charles "Mad Jack" Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, whose daring wartime exploits included rescuing dozens of refugee European nuclear scientists, a large supply of heavy water and millions of pounds in diamonds just before the Germans captured Paris, and then became a self-taught bomb disposal expert who successfully defused dozens of large German bombs during the London Blitz.

Seasons

1

Episodes

4

First aired

Sep 23, 1973

Networks

BBC One

Original language

English

Origin

United Kingdom