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

February 1944

The pregnant Norma Baker and Gordon Mulley prepare to marry. A bomb just misses 347 Section’s barracks and Mulley is nearly asphyxiated when he falls into its camouflet. Brian’s difficult recovery strains his relationship with Susan near to breaking point as he worries about being invalided out of the service. He refuses to see anyone or attend the wedding until Sergeant James visits him and succeeds in breaking through his depression. Brian is restored to active service but when he is promoted to captain and transferred to what seems a meaningless position in Somerset, he feels useless. Ivor offers him an unofficial chance to defuze a recently discovered and relatively routine bomb dropped years before. Dismantling the fuze, however, Brian finds a note inside that says ‘With Love from Adolf.’ The series ends with Captain Ash and Sergeant James blowing up the defuzed Hermann with a block of plastic explosive.

Danger UXB Series

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Henry Herbert.
• Writer(s): John Hawkesworth.
• Release Date: 02 April 1979.
• Running Time: 49-51 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.