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

A sceptical Brian is ordered to deliver a defuzed but otherwise intact bomb to Dr. Gillespie, a boffin in Kent who has come up with a novel solution to bypassing the Zeus 40: drilling a hole in the bomb casing and piping in steam to emulsify the explosive so it flows out of the casing for removal. Brian initially clashes with Gillespie’s married daughter Susan, but the two come to respect each other after Brian is assigned to assist Gillespie. During its first field trial, on a bomb with a tricky double fuze mechanism the new method works in removing the bulk of the explosive and rendering the bomb safe, but Sapper Copping is killed by the fuse charge when the timer is restarted by a passing tube train and it detonates.

Danger UXB Series

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Jeremy Summers.
• Writer(s): Don Shaw.
• Release Date: 29 January 1979.
• Running Time: 49-51 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.