A Perfect Hero

Starring Nigel Havers as a recovering WWII pilot trying to adapt to life after being shot down. After suffering horrific facial burns when the bomber he is piloting is shot down, Hugh Fleming (Havers)'s once promising future lies in ruins. Abandoned by his girlfriend, and forced to sit out the war while his former colleagues fight on, Fleming's only hope lies with an offer of help from renowned plastic surgeon Angus Meikle (James Fox). Based on the 1980 Christopher Matthew book 'The Long-Haired Boy'. Loosley based on the true story of Richard Hillary with some aspects adapted from Hillary's 1943 book 'The Last Enemy'.

Fiona Gillies

Bunty Morrell

Nigel Havers

Hugh Fleming

James Fox

Angus Meikle

Amanda Elwes

Marjorie

Bernard Hepton

Arthur Fleming

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Iris Fleming

Nicholas Pritchard

Julian Masters

Patrick Ryecart

Tim Holland

Thomas Wheatley

Dickie Bird

Jeffrey Daunton

Medical Orderly

Georgia Allen

Nancy

Fiona Mollison

Susan

Jeff Rawle

Service Policeman

• James Cellan JonesProducer · Director
• Allan PriorWriter

First aired

May 17, 1991

Last aired

June 21, 1991

Status

Ended

Original language

English

Episodes

6

• Season 16 episodes · 1991

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  2016

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  The U.S. and the Holocaust

  2022

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  Great Blunders of WWII

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  World War Two: 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly

  2012

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  Sensacje XX wieku

  1983

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  World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel

  2011

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  The Gallant Men

  1962

• 

  WWII: The Lost Color Archives

  2000

• 

  Colombuses

  1970

• 

  Coming Home

  1998

• 

  The Diary of Anne Frank

  2009

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  Dad's Army

  1968