The Other Man is a British television drama written by Giles Cooper, directed by Gordon Flemyng, and starring Michael Caine, Siân Phillips and John Thaw.
Prior to transmission, the nature of the storyline was not publicised,[1] the only hint being the cover of that week's TV Times, which showed the image of a British passport, but with the addition of a Swastika and the German phrase "Deutsches Reich.
There follows a Nazi-directed reorganisation of Britain's domestic and foreign policy, a brutal reconquest of India, and a gradual complicity in racial atrocities and the building of a Channel tunnel using slave labour.
Remaining a professional soldier, Grant gradually but inevitably compromises himself under the new regime, via three tests of his humanity, after accepting a posting connected to building a road from India to the Russian frontier.
He regains consciousness a year later and discovers that his shattered body has been rebuilt using the same advanced transplant surgery that is used to keep alive the leading Nazis – including Adolf Hitler – and "heroes of the Reich" like Grant himself.