Introduction

Danger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series set during the Second World War.

It was developed by John Hawkesworth and starred Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers (RE).

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Outline

September 1940

On their course, they learn that the boffins have developed a powerful electromagnetic “clockstopper” to counter the type 17’s fuze. Brian gives in to Machin’s pleadings and allows him to finish disarming the type 17 discovered in a residential garden while Brian goes to deal with a Category A (highest priority) bomb near a telephone exchange. While he is gone, the type 17 explodes, killing Machin despite the use of the clockstopper. He later learns that Machin had only just got engaged to his fiancée and that she is pregnant. He later finds the Category A bomb has ruptured without exploding, and has an intact type 17 fuze. Brian learns that the type 17 is also rigged with an anti-handling device called the Zus 40[n 3] that detonates if there is an attempt to extract the fuze.

Danger UXB Series

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Roy Ward Baker.
• Writer(s): Jeremy Paul.
• Release Date: 22 January 1979.
• Running Time: 49-51 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.