Danger UXB
Premiered: Jan 08, 1979 | 1 seasons | 13 episodes
Popularity: 2
| Creator: | John Hawkesworth |
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| Danger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series about World War II developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. 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 been made 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 series primarily featured military story lines, with a romantic thread featuring an inventor's married daughter, Susan Mount, with whom Ash falls in love, and other human interest vignettes. The programme was 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 was filmed in 1978 in and around the Clapham, Streatham and Tooting areas of South London. The programme appeared on the U.S. PBS as a segment of Masterpiece Theatre from January 4 to April 5, 1981. It was also screened in Australia on the public broadcaster ABC Television. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Pugh | Sapper Powell | 13 |
| Maurice Roëves | Sergeant James | 13 |
| Anthony Andrews | Lt. Brian Ash | 13 |
| George Innes | Corporal Wilkins | 13 |
| Judy Geeson | Susan | 7 |
| Peter Cartwright | Major Luckhurst | 7 |
| Marjie Lawrence | Mrs. Baker | 6 |
| Iain Cuthbertson | Doctor Gillespie | 6 |
| Kenneth Cranham | Sapper Salt | 5 |
| Jeremy Sinden | Ivor Rodgers | 5 |
| Royston Tickner | Lieutenant Leckie | 5 |
| David Auker | Sapper Baines | 5 |
| Osmund Bullock | Lieutenant Pringle | 4 |
| Kenneth Cranham | L / Corporal Salt | 4 |
| John Bowler | Sapper Scott | 4 |
| Jeremy Sinden | Lieutenant Rodgers | 4 |
| Norman Chappell | Corporal Mould | 4 |
| Osmund Bullock | Captain Pringle | 3 |
| David Shaughnessy | Lieutenant Carter Brown | 3 |
| Kenneth Farrington | Captain Francis | 3 |
| Judy Geeson | Susan Gillespie | 2 |
| Nick Brimble | Lieutenant Gresham | 2 |
| Charles Pemberton | Police Sergeant | 2 |
| Moyra Fraser | Aunt Do-Do | 2 |
| Christopher Good | Captain West | 2 |
| Barrie Cookson | Brigadier Lawrence | 2 |
| Patrick Malahide | Flt. Lt. Kelly | 1 |
| Nick Brimble | 2nd Lieutenant Gresham | 1 |
| Tony Steedman | Reverend Matlock | 1 |
| Steven Grives | Lieutenant Machin | 1 |
| Steven Grives | Ken Machin | 1 |
| Mary Healey | Dorothy | 1 |
| Cheryl Hall | Jean | 1 |
| Michael Sheard | Police Superintendent | 1 |
| Deirdre Costello | Gladys | 1 |
| Peter Cellier | Flt. Lt. Fenwick | 1 |
| Deborah Grant | Elspeth | 1 |
| David Buck | Stephen | 1 |
| Nick Tate | Lt. Chris Craik | 1 |
| Tim Pigott-Smith | Harry Winthrop | 1 |
| Patsy Smart | Molly Preston | 1 |
| Benjamin Whitrow | Major Pullar | 1 |
| Gordon Rollings | Mr. Baker | 1 |
| Norman Mitchell | ARP Warden | 1 |
| Alfie Bass | Reg Preston | 1 |
| Robert Brown | Civil Defence Officer | 1 |
| Moyra Fraser | Aunt Do Do | 1 |
| Geoffrey Lumsden | Parson | 1 |
| Kathleen Harrison | Mrs. Dollery | 1 |
| David Shaughnessy | 2nd Lieutenant Carter Brown | 1 |
| David Shaughnessy | Lieutenant Carter-Brown | 1 |
| Christopher Good | Major | 1 |
| Kenneth Farrington | Major Francis | 1 |
| Patrick Jordan | Policeman | 1 |
| Jeremy Sinden | Lieutenant Ivor Rodgers | 1 |
| Jonathan Elsom | Captain RAOC | 1 |
| Maggie Ollerenshaw | Betty Salt | 1 |
| Gretchen Franklin | Mrs. Flack | 1 |
| Royston Tickner | Captain Leckie | 1 |
| Paddy Ryan | Postman | 1 |
| Blake Butler | ARP Warden | 1 |
| Matthew Ryan | Matthew | 1 |
| David Wood | Lieutenant Symes | 1 |
| John Rolfe | Fire Officer | 1 |
| Ellis Dale | Surgeon | 1 |
| Mollie Maureen | Woman | 1 |
| Phyllis MacMahon | Cis | 1 |
| Christopher Burgess | Photographer | 1 |
| Charles Lamb | Gardener | 1 |
| Sandy Ratcliff | Rosalyn | 1 |
| Nick Ellsworth | Private | 1 |
| Prentis Hancock | Captain BD | 1 |
| Daphne Neville | Woman in Police Station | 1 |