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

October 1940

347 section is given a much-needed weekend off duty. Brian’s plans to sleep are drastically changed when Susan seeks him out, and they stay together in a drab hotel in Bromley using assumed names. However, Brian is called back to work, cutting short their tryst, when Luckhurst sends him to assist 81 Company, which is hard-pressed by activity and casualties, with two bombs along a railway line. By the time he arrives, one of the bombs has exploded, killing half of an 81 Company section and emotionally crippling its officer. Brian successfully deals with the other bomb, which is double-fuzed with both a ticking type 17 and an active type 50. Susan grows impatient waiting for him and returns home to find an unexpected visitor: her husband Stephen.

Danger UXB Series

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Roy Ward Baker.
• Writer(s): Jeremy Paul.
• Release Date: 12 February 1979.
• Running Time: 49-51 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.