Danger UXB
Danger UXB

Danger UXB

1979 1 Seasons 13 Episodes ⭐ 8.0 Drama

Danger UXB is a 1979 British television series developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The programme is titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which, as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz, has become a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The storylines were primarily military, with a romantic thread between Ash and an inventor's married daughter, and other human interest vignettes.

Danger UXB is a 1979 British television series developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The programme is titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which, as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz, has become a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The storylines were primarily military, with a romantic thread between Ash and an inventor's married daughter, and other human interest vignettes.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Dead Man's Shoes

September 1940: Brian Ash, a direct entry officer of the Royal Engineers after ten weeks of basic training at the Hampsh

EP 2

Unsung Heroes

Ash is reprimanded, first by Francis for a newspaper story about the section that the 2IC believes injures the dignity o

EP 3

Just Like a Woman

On their course, Ash and Machin learn that the boffins have developed a powerful electromagnetic 'clockstopper' to count

EP 4

Cast Iron Killer

Ash is ordered to take a defused bomb direct to a scientist working on ways to get around the booby-trap timer.

EP 5

The Silver Lining

A bomb under a nightclub provides 347 Section with an opportunity for a little recreation. Ash admits that he is smitten

EP 6

The Quiet Weekend

Ash and Susan go off for a quiet weekend away but Ash is recalled to deal with an unexploded bomb and Susan returns home

EP 7

Digging Out

Ash works on a bomb outside a destroyed office building while the men of 347 Section try to rescue a woman trapped insid

EP 8

Bad Company

Newly-promoted Major Francis takes command of the unit and proceeds to enforce new disciplines, but his chief target see

EP 9

Seventeen Seconds to Glory

347 Section cooperates with the Royal Navy to deal with a bomb that has a 17-second fuse. Ash decides to ask Susan to ma

EP 10

Butterfly Winter

The Germans have been dropping a new butterfly bomb that are proving difficult to defuse. 347 Section is one of a number

EP 11

Dead Letter

Ash is assigned to Cambridge to help Dr. Gillespie with the new Y fuse, and meets Susan again.

EP 12

The Pier

The Company packs up and moves to the coast where they are to clear the beaches of dozens of British mines laid in prepa

EP 13

With Love From Adolf

Ash convalesces after a near-fatal accident while defusing a mine. With his mobility severely impaired, he is to be reas

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