Basic Info

First Air: January 08, 1979

Rating: ⭐ 8.0/10 (7 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Last Episode

Name: With Love From Adolf

Season: 1, Episode: 13

Air Date: 1979-04-02

Runtime: 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.

Videos

Danger UXB Opening Theme (YouTube)

Danger UXB

1979 1 seasons 13 episodes ⭐ 8.0/10 7 votes

Overview

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.