Editing Escape from Colditz (section)

==Publication history==
In 1972, [[BBC]] produced ''Colditz'', a television series about Allied POWs imprisoned at the supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle and their many attempts to escape. The TV series proved popular in the UK, and former Colditz POW and escapee [[Pat Reid|Major Pat Reid]], who had written several books about his wartime experiences, co-designed a board game with Bob Brechin and Brian Degas as an official licensed tie-in to the TV series. The game, ''Escape from Colditz'', was published in the UK by Gibsons Games in 1973. It was also published in North America by Parker Brothers the same year. The original box of both these editions featured a [[swastika]]; in later editions, this was replaced by an ''[[Reichsadler]]'' (Imperial eagle). The game proved to be very popular.

A Spanish edition, ''Fuga de Colditz'', sold very well in Spain, and Major Reid designed a sequel, ''Después de Colditz'' (''After Colditz''), in which the POWs who escaped from Colditz try to make their way to Switzerland, Spain, Sweden or England.<ref name=achtung /> 

A new edition of the board game, with new artwork and updated rules, was released in October 2016 by [[Osprey Publishing|Osprey Games]].

In 1972, [[Invicta Plastics]] published an unrelated  board game designed by 18-year-old Adrian Wild titled ''Escape from Colditz Castle''. Although that game proved popular, selling 130,000 copies, it was quickly forgotten once ''Escape from Colditz'' was released by Gibsons Games the following year.