Jenny's War

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Jenny's War is a 1985 war television serial set during World War II, made by HTV in association with Columbia Pictures. It is directed by and written by Steve Gethers. The screenplay is based on the novel with the same name of Jack Stoneley. In the UK it was shown as four 50 minute episodes on the ITV network, while in the United States it was syndicated under the Operation Prime Time banner by MCA TV. The serial stars Dyan Cannon, Nigel Hawthorne, Robert Hardy Christopher Cazenove and Hugh Grant, and is about a mother, Jenny Baines, who searches for her son Peter, who was shot down over Germany, and who she believes is still alive.

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Dyan Cannon Jenny Baines

Elke Sommer Eva Gruenberg

Robert Hardy Klein

Patrick Ryecart Steinhardt

Nigel Hawthorne Colonel

Christopher Cazenove Capt. Preston

Richard Todd Gen. Benjamin Cutler

Hartmut Becker Karl Koenig

John Moulder-Brown

Sion Tudor Owen

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