COLLECTION · Series · 1979

Danger UXB

Name: Danger UXB
Genre: Drama
Duration: 50 min
Rating: 8

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.

Source: TMDB

* 8.0 (8)DramaUnited Kingdom

Creators

John Hawkesworth

Countries

United Kingdom

Studios

ITV1 · Euston Films · Thames Television

Runtime

50 min/ep

Release

08/01/1979

Score

8.0 / 10 (8)

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Seasons and episodes

Series 1

13 episodes · 1979

Episode 1. Dead Man's Shoes

1979-01-08 · 50 min

September 1940: Brian Ash, a direct entry officer of the Royal Engineers after ten weeks of basic training at the Hampshire Depot, joins 97 Tunnelling Company. Without benefit of training as a bomb disposal officer, he is immediately put…

Episode 2. Unsung Heroes

1979-01-15 · 50 min

Ash is reprimanded, first by Francis for a newspaper story about the section that the 2IC believes injures the dignity of the service, then by Luckhurst for his reckless behaviour when defuzing a low-priority bomb. Ash becomes acquainted…

Episode 3. Just Like a Woman

1979-01-22 · 50 min

On their course, Ash and Machin learn that the boffins have developed a powerful electromagnetic 'clockstopper' to counter the type 17's fuse. Ash gives in to Machin's pleadings, allowing him to finish disarming the type 17 discovered in…

Episode 4. Cast Iron Killer

1979-01-29 · 50 min

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

Episode 5. The Silver Lining

1979-02-05 · 50 min

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

Episode 6. The Quiet Weekend

1979-02-12 · 50 min

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

Episode 7. Digging Out

1979-02-19 · 50 min

Ash works on a bomb outside a destroyed office building while the men of 347 Section try to rescue a woman trapped inside and with another bomb right beside her.

Episode 8. Bad Company

1979-02-26 · 50 min

Newly-promoted Major Francis takes command of the unit and proceeds to enforce new disciplines, but his chief target seems to be Ash and his men.

Episode 9. Seventeen Seconds to Glory

1979-03-05 · 50 min

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

Episode 10. Butterfly Winter

1979-03-12 · 50 min

The Germans have been dropping a new butterfly bomb that are proving difficult to defuse. 347 Section is one of a number of units called to a small English village to deal with them.

Episode 11. Dead Letter

1979-03-19 · 50 min

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

Episode 12. The Pier

1979-03-26 · 50 min

The Company packs up and moves to the coast where they are to clear the beaches of dozens of British mines laid in preparation for a German invasion.

Episode 13. With Love From Adolf

1979-04-02 · 50 min

Ash convalesces after a near-fatal accident while defusing a mine. With his mobility severely impaired, he is to be reassigned to light duties away from the bomb disposal unit.

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