Danger UXB is a 1979 British television series developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The programme is 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 chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which, as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz, has become 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 storylines were primarily military, with a romantic thread between Ash and an inventor's married daughter, and other human interest vignettes.

Cast & crew

John Hawkesworth

Creator

Anthony Andrews

Lieutenant Brian Ash

Maurice Roëves

Sergeant James

George Innes

Corporal Jim Wilkins

Robert Pugh

Sapper 'Tiny' Powell

Jeremy Sinden

Lieutenant Rodgers

Ken Kitson

Corporal Horrocks

Kenneth Cranham

Sapper Salt

Judy Geeson

Susan

Peter Cartwright

Major Luckhurst

Osmund Bullock

Lieutenant Pringle

Deborah Watling

Norma

Royston Tickner

Lieutenant Leckie

Iain Cuthbertson

Doctor Gillespie

M

Marjie Lawrence

Mrs. Baker

David Shaughnessy

Lieutenant Carter-Brown

D

David Auker

Sapper Baines

Robert Longden

Sapper Copping

Kenneth Farrington

Major Francis

N

Norman Chappell

Corporal Mould

John Bowler

Sapper Scott

Seasons

13 episodes

Series 11979 · 13 episodes