History Series / WishMeLuck

* FakeOutMakeOut: Mattie and Cyrano throw off the Nazi Abwehr agents by taking off their clothes and getting into bed to pretend they're having sex. After danger has passed, [[TheyDo they finally resolve their]] [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]].

* IllGirl: Unusually, it's an older woman, Mattie's mother.

* CallBack: In the first episode, Faith warns the agents-in-training that while they're in France, they must be careful not to give away the fact that they're British and pay attention to the little things such as [[SpotOfTea putting the tea in the cup before the milk rather than after]]. [[BrickJoke A few episodes later]], Liz must serve tea to a Nazi and hesitates a bit before pouring the tea and the milk in the correct French way.

* {{Whitehall}}: mentioned as being the source of Cad's orders.

* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: Grégoire and Liz.]]

* TheHomeFront: the setting alternates between this and occupied France.

* ActorAllusion: It's not the first time [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Suzanna]] [[TheFilmOfTheBook Hamilton]] has played a sexually liberated young woman rebelling against [[TheEmpire a fascist dictatorship.]]

''Wish Me Luck'' is a British TV show from TheEighties about a British army unit during WorldWarII that goes undercover in France to help LaResistance. Series One (set in 1942) and Two (in 1943) follow various female officers, including [[EnglishRose Liz Grainger]] and [[TheLadette Mattie Firman]] as they struggle both to stay alive in occupied France and to overcome societal pressures against women serving on active duty. Series Three is about the rebellion organized by the Maquis du Vercors in 1944.

** Many characters cite the fact that Liz has a young child as a reason she shouldn't be on active duty, even though her husband has done the same thing. [[JustifiedTrope To be fair]], Liz's husband isn't in the field and he has a fairly low chance of being killed (for WorldWarII anyway).

* [[spoiler: BigDamnHeroes: the Resistance rescuing Mattie.]]

* LaResistance: Who the British protagonists often find themselves working with. Both Gaullists and Communists are present, who do not necessarily get along

* LesCollaborateurs: Vivien in series 2 discovers to her horror that the daughter she gave up for adoption is now dating a German soldier!
** There's also the NosyNeighbor of the family putting up Emily/Zoe, who eventually informs on them. [[spoiler: Emily goes to her house to kill her, only to discover she's already been killed as a collaborator by LaResistance]]
** Series 3 gives us Phillipe, the local Vichy prefect [[spoiler: and Dominique's ex-husband]]. He gives a speech about how he's doing what he's doing for France, [[spoiler: Dominique]] immediately calls him on his BS

->Lawrence: "It was never a grand passion."

** The same thing happens to [[spoiler: Liz]] in series 3. [[spoiler: Cad]] similarly has been transferred to work more in-depth with the Americans

** Apparently how Sylvie realized that Franz might be able to help her free Rex was by watching him feed the swans at the local park.

** Franz from series 3 actually is one: he is clearly uncomfortable guarding a priest (even one who's a Maquis commander) and is actually ''relieved'' when "six desperate men" (aka: Sylvie and Adele) manage to free his prisoner.

** The same thing happens to [[spoiler: Liz]] in series 3

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: the division the main characters serve in is considered this by some in the army.

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: the Communist Résistance doesn't always get along very well with the undercover British spies. They also occasionally fight with the Gaullists, and the Gaullists don't always agree with the British command

* TranslationConvention: When the team is in France, everyone speaks English with [[NotEvenBotheringWithAnAccent British accents]], except for the German characters, who have German accents. During training, characters speak French to demonstrate their fluency in the language

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: the Communist Résistance doesn't always get along very well with the undercover British spies.

* ViolentGlaswegian: Gaspard, the explosives expert who the team encounters in series 2, who spends a lot of time yelling at them angrily for their incompetance

** Franz from series 3 actually is one: he is clearly uncomfortable guarding a priest (even one who's a Maquis commander) and is actually ''relieved'' when Sylvie and Adele manage to free him.