
Danger UXB
Drama·1979·1 Seasons
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.
Starring: Anthony Andrews,Maurice Roëves,George Innes,Robert Pugh
Episodes
Series 1S01 | E01
Dead Man's Shoes
1979-01-08
S01 | E02
Unsung Heroes
1979-01-15
S01 | E03
Just Like a Woman
1979-01-22
S01 | E04
Cast Iron Killer
1979-01-29
S01 | E05
The Silver Lining
1979-02-05
S01 | E06
The Quiet Weekend
1979-02-12
S01 | E07
Digging Out
1979-02-19
S01 | E08
Bad Company
1979-02-26
S01 | E09
Seventeen Seconds to Glory
1979-03-05
S01 | E10
Butterfly Winter
1979-03-12
S01 | E11
Dead Letter
1979-03-19
S01 | E12
The Pier
1979-03-26
S01 | E13
With Love From Adolf
1979-04-02
Cast

Anthony Andrews
Lieutenant Brian Ash

Maurice Roëves
Sergeant James

George Innes
Corporal Jim Wilkins

Robert Pugh
Sapper 'Tiny' Powell