Awesome / Colditz

• The first series finale has one that's both awesome and will make you laugh with relief. After Pat and Phil make a desperate sprint uphill for the Swiss border, they fall at the feet of a soldier, completely out of breath. "Are we in Switzerland?" "You've been in Switzerland for the last two miles," the Swiss frontier guard says, laughing, as Pat and Phil clasp hands in triumph. "The undefeated" indeed.
• Phil Carrington's ruse after he works out Major Mohn's bugging scheme in "Senior American Officer", causing Mohn to burst into the British quarters and seize a piece of paper with the American Declaration of Independence on it.
• Phil gets another one at the end of "Very Important Person", when Mohn declares he is to be arrested and court-martialled for earlier threatening Mohn personally if any harm came to Lt. Phipps (who was being reclassified as Prominente, ie a hostage). Mohn declares he'll forget the whole thing if Carrington apologises. Phil notes Mohn might have another incentive for forgetting the incident... because someone else could be before a court martial very soon. And there's a closeup on Mohn's face as another American plane rumbles by overhead.
• Almost everyone gets one in "Chameleon", as Major Mohn tries to ingratiate himself with both the Germans and the prisoners in the face of Germany's defeat, desperately trying to find, basically, anybody who actually likes him. Nobody does.
  • Colonel Preston gets a nice subtle one early on, as he keeps his cool while Major Mohn tries to dominate the conversation about the increasingly bad food rations. When Mohn suggests he never thought he'd see the Colonel grovelling in order to keep a few chickens and rabbits in Colditz, Preston replies diffidently, fully aware that he's doing nothing of the sort.
  • Simon Carter settles for simply getting one over on him, telling him he supports the (entirely made up) Harlequins FC when Mohn tries to chat about how much he appreciates English football, purely to enjoy seeing him praise the historic performance of an entirely made-up team.
  • The Kommandant verbally berates Mohn later, even when the Major offers him half of his stash of Swiss money in exchange for mutual protection. Mohn notes that in the years to come, Germans like Karl will be disgraced, while Nazis like him will be accommodated in a new Germany that's devoted to anti-Communism. That doesn't change the Kommandant's opinion of his craven cowardice one iota.
  • Mohn's last attempt to reason with Preston, based on their mutual "membership of the class of rulers, not the mob" leads to Preston remarking, "Well, I would say, Major, that I very much doubt if there is one man in this castle, either captor or captive, who would lift one little finger to help you save your skin. You've asked me to be frank - allow me to say that I, as one member of your international fascist elite, will give three resounding cheers to see you roast in hell. Goodnight, Major."
  • Finally, Simon comes in with the letter from the prisoners... containing every single bastard move Mohn ever pulled in previous episodes. And Simon warns him that when he's living life in St Moritz or Istanbul after the war, to look over his shoulder every so often...
• A Hilarious in Hindsight example for Tony Shaw's glider - although they didn't know it for sure when the series was made in 1973, in 2000, a Channel 4 documentary proved that the Colditz Cock could indeed fly. Shaw's plan would have worked!
• The Liberation! One soldier comes in through the gate alone, and for a minute there's absolute silence... then the prisoners break into cheers, lift the poor sap onto their shoulders and parade him around, banging pots and pans, wrecking the place and burning the swastika flag!. After five years, they're free.