Ray Mears's Real Heroes of Telemark — Season 1
About this season
A three-part insight into an amazing wartime mission in Norway, undertaken in the early 1940s, which was immortalised by the Hollywood movie The Heroes of Telemark.
Episodes (3)
1. Epic Journey
Aired 21 September 2003 • 50 min
Mears and a team of modern-day winter warfare specialists begin to retrace the epic journey made by the original commandos, who survived appalling hardship to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb project.
2. Survival in the Wilds
Aired 28 September 2003 • 50 min
The survival expert continues a three-part insight into a wartime mission in Norway, undertaken during the early 1940s. Ray visits Scotland and Norway to find out how elite commandos were trained to survive in the wilds so that they could destroy a key part of Hitler's atomic bomb project.
3. Heavy Water
Aired 5 October 2003 • 50 min
The survival expert concludes his three-part insight into a remarkable wartime mission in Norway, undertaken during the early 1940s, in which survival skills helped the Allies to stop Hitler's atomic bomb programme in its tracks. Ray hears how the heroes of this daring Second World War raid would like to be remembered.