Danger UXB was a 1979 British ITV television series developed by John Hawkesworth about a squad of Royal Engineers assigned the duty of defusing unexploded bombs ("UXBs") in England in World War II, beginning with the Blitz. It starred Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, a newly commissioned officer assigned to 347 Section of 97 Tunneling Company, Royal Engineers, an explosive ordnance disposal unit.

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  • Danger UXB was a 1979 British ITV television series developed by John Hawkesworth about a squad of Royal Engineers assigned the duty of defusing unexploded bombs ("UXBs") in England in World War II, beginning with the Blitz. It starred Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, a newly commissioned officer assigned to 347 Section of 97 Tunneling Company, Royal Engineers, an explosive ordnance disposal unit. Maurice Roëves played Sergeant James, his section sergeant; Robert Pugh played one of the "sappers". The series primarily featured military story lines, with a romantic thread featuring an explosives expert's married daughter, Susan Mount, with whom Ash falls in love, and other human interest vignettes. The programme was titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B. E, RE, Unexploded Bomb. The series was filmed in 1978 in and around the Clapham/Streatham/Tooting area of London. The programme appeared on the U.S. public television network as part of Masterpiece Theatre from 1980 to 1981.
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  • Danger UXB was a 1979 British ITV television series developed by John Hawkesworth about a squad of Royal Engineers assigned the duty of defusing unexploded bombs ("UXBs") in England in World War II, beginning with the Blitz. It starred Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, a newly commissioned officer assigned to 347 Section of 97 Tunneling Company, Royal Engineers, an explosive ordnance disposal unit.
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