Overview
A group of Air Force conscripts begin eight weeks of 'square-bashing' - basic military drill. Two of the conscripts develop a friendship, Pip Thompson, a young aristocrat, and Chas Wingate, a working class boy. The military hierarchy want Pip to become an officer. He rebelliously refuses. The officers patiently tolerate his rebellion thus defusing it and breaking his spirit.
Cast
- Thorley Walters as Wing Commander
- Donald Hewlett as Squadron Leader
- David Daker as Corporal Hill
- James Faulkner as Pilot Officer
- Tim Woodward as Pip Thompson
- Terence Budd as Chas Wingate
- David Troughton as Smiler Washington
- Ron Bain as Andrew McClore
- Frank Baker as Dodger Cohen
- Jimmy Cassidy as Ginger Richardson