Release Date

08 Jan, 1979

Runtime

00:50: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

13/1

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Danger UXB

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Series 1

08 Jan, 1979

Created By

John Hawkesworth

Actors

Anthony Andrews

Maurice Roëves

George Innes

Robert Pugh

Crew

Paul Le Mare

Christopher Neame

Bunty Phillips

Simon Park

James Weatherup

Patrick Cassavetti

Ron Jackson

Weston Drury Jr.

Mike Murr

Malcolm R. Burgess

Anne McFadyen

Ken Scrivener

Chris Sargent

John Hawkesworth