The Saboteurs, More4, 9pm
Part three of the six-part wartime drama about the sabotaging of a Nazi factory producing so-called "heavy water" - a vital ingredient in the nuclear bomb the Germans were trying to develop throughout the second world war. In tonight's episode, an American plan to attack the factory from the air is ditched in favour of a five-man team of Norwegians being flown in by glider from their base in Scotland to mount a clandestine ground assault. Anna Friel stars alongside German actor Christoph Bach and Norwegian Dennis Storhoi. The Saboteurs was a hit in Norway when it screened, proof that the historical episode is rather better known there than it is here - despite the best efforts of Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris in The Heroes Of Telemark.
Flatliners, BBC One, 11.55pm
Welcome airing for Joel Schumacher's curiously engaging sci-fi horror, now acquiring the patina of a gothic classic thanks to the passage of time - it was released in 1990 - and an impressive cast list which includes Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon and William Baldwin. Sutherland plays Nelson Wright, a medical student who convinces four fellow students to help him in a potentially deadly experiment: he's going to "die", or "flatline", for a few seconds and then be resuscitated using a defibrillator. The plan? To see what's on "the other side" of course. Predictably, it doesn't go quite to plan.
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