Catch-22: Programme Information
Category: Press Pack ArticleS1 E101 'Episode 1'
Young American flyers arrive in war and discover that the bureaucracy is more deadly than the enemy.
S1 E102 'Episode 2'
Yossarian pursues desperate measures to get home, while Milo sees war as a growth industry.
S1 E103 'Episode 3'
Yossarian needlessly expends energy to avoid a feared mission; disaster catches up with him, when he least expects it.
S1 E104 'Episode 4'
On a surreal trip, Yossarian begins to realize the magnitude and influence of Milo’s business empire.
S1 E105 'Episode 5'
Reeling from one violent tragedy, Yossarian encounters incomprehensible darkness in Rome, and is faced with an impossible choice.
S1 E106 'Episode 6'
Alive and intact, Yossarian is thwarted by an old adversary. Confronted by a devastating loss, he undergoes a transformation.
CHARACTER BIOS
Yossarian is a US Air Force bombardier in World War II who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy, but rather his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to avoid his military assignments, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22.
Colonel Cathcart is a full Colonel that takes himself very seriously.
Scheisskopf is a training commander at cadet school in California. Ambitious, humorless, inept, angry, sadistic – and above all else, obsessed with parades and winning parade tournaments. At cadet school he makes the men’s lives a living hell. Deep down he’s just an angry idiot, so there’s no real danger he’ll ever be sent overseas. And then: he is sent overseas. As the Head of Operations for the entire Mediterranean Theater. And straight back into Yossarian’s life.
Major de Coverley is squadron executive officer on Pianosa air base. A noble, leonine presence, like some Civil War general, de Coverley dances to the beat of his own drum. Regarded with awe by the men. He spends his time pitching horseshoes, listening to jazz on