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 concentration camp site scenes were shot in the grounds of Thoresby Hall in the Nottingham countryside during the National Union of Miners strike.
In the film the prison camp was known as Stalag Luft 4B but in reality it was a group of disused billet huts in some woods at Thoresby Hall, which was then owned by the Coal Board and which has now been turned into a day spa.
A short mini-series made for TV, Jenny's War was first screened on ITV and subsequently released on VHS.
In 1941, Jenny Baines, an American living in England learns that her son, an RAF flier, has been shot down over Germany.