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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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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01Dead Man's ShoesJanuary 8, 1979—September 1940: Brian Ash, a direct entry officer of the Royal Engineers after ten weeks of basic training at the Hampshire Depot, joins 97
- S01E02Unsung HeroesJanuary 15, 1979—Ash is reprimanded, first by Francis for a newspaper story about the section that the 2IC believes injures the dignity of the service, then
- S01E03Just Like a WomanJanuary 22, 1979—On their course, Ash and Machin learn that the boffins have developed a powerful electromagnetic 'clockstopper' to counter the type 17's fus
- S01E04Cast Iron KillerJanuary 29, 1979—Ash is ordered to take a defused bomb direct to a scientist working on ways to get around the booby-trap timer.
- S01E05The Silver LiningFebruary 5, 1979—A bomb under a nightclub provides 347 Section with an opportunity for a little recreation. Ash admits that he is smitten with Susan.
- S01E06The Quiet WeekendFebruary 12, 1979—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
- S01E07Digging OutFebruary 19, 1979—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 b
- S01E08Bad CompanyFebruary 26, 1979—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
- S01E09Seventeen Seconds to GloryMarch 5, 1979—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.
- S01E10Butterfly WinterMarch 12, 1979—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
- S01E11Dead LetterMarch 19, 1979—Ash is assigned to Cambridge to help Dr. Gillespie with the new Y fuse, and meets Susan again.
- S01E12The PierMarch 26, 1979—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
- S01E13With Love From AdolfApril 2, 1979—Ash convalesces after a near-fatal accident while defusing a mine. With his mobility severely impaired, he is to be reassigned to light duti
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