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Danger UXB

  • TV Series
  • 19791979
  • 1h
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8.5/10
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Anthony Andrews, Judy Geeson, Iain Cuthbertson, and Maurice Roëves in Danger UXB (1979)
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The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional Royal Engineer Tunnelling Company 97, which has been made a bomb disposal unit to deal with the thousands of unexploded bombs ("UXBs") in ... Read allThe series chronicles the exploits of the fictional Royal Engineer Tunnelling Company 97, which has been made a bomb disposal unit to deal with the thousands of unexploded bombs ("UXBs") in London during the Battle of Britain.The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional Royal Engineer Tunnelling Company 97, which has been made a bomb disposal unit to deal with the thousands of unexploded bombs ("UXBs") in London during the Battle of Britain.
IMDb RATING
8.5/10
986
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    • John Hawkesworth(devised by)
    • John Whitney(devised by)
  • Stars
    • Anthony Andrews
    • Maurice Roëves
    • George Innes
    • John Hawkesworth(devised by)
    • John Whitney(devised by)
  • Stars
    • Anthony Andrews
    • Maurice Roëves
    • George Innes
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    Anthony Andrews
    Anthony Andrews
    • Brian Ash
    Maurice Roëves
    Maurice Roëves
    • Sergeant James
    George Innes
    George Innes
    • Sapper Wilkins…
    Gordon Kane
    • Sapper Mulley
    Robert Pugh
    Robert Pugh
    • Sapper Powell
    Ken Kitson
    Ken Kitson
    • Corporal Horrocks
    Jeremy Sinden
    Jeremy Sinden
    • Ivor Rodgers…
    Judy Geeson
    Judy Geeson
    • Susan
    Kenneth Cranham
    Kenneth Cranham
    • Sapper Salt…
    Osmund Bullock
    • Lieutenant Pringle…
    Deborah Watling
    Deborah Watling
    • Norma
    Peter Cartwright
    Peter Cartwright
    • Major Luckhurst
    Iain Cuthbertson
    Iain Cuthbertson
    • Doctor Gillespie
    Marjie Lawrence
    Marjie Lawrence
    • Mrs. Baker
    Royston Tickner
    • Lieutenant Leckie…
    David Shaughnessy
    David Shaughnessy
    • Lieutenant Carter Brown…
    David Auker
    David Auker
    • Sapper Baines
    Robert Longden
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      By a bizarre coincidence, actor Anthony Andrews was jotting down some thoughts for a series about wartime bomb-disposal officers when producer John Hawkesworth telephoned him and, out of the blue, offered him the role of Brian Ash in Danger UXB (1979).
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    Still superb after all these years
    I just saw it on video 20 years after first watching it on PBS. Great storytelling, great acting, great writing. John Hawkesworth made this well: he neither missed nor flubbed a detail, nor did he insert any improbable or cliched lines or angles. The actual stories themselves are simple enough: a few romances, comradery among the old boys, mateship among the men, a commanding idiot, the proverbial English eccentric ...

    But hanging over all their heads - literally - is the Nazi Blitz and its delayed-fuse calling-cards in particular. The fuses kept changing, forcing the engineers to respond to them.

    Hawkesworth didn't cop the "budget restraints" plea with "Danger UXB" like so many others would have done; he used what he could get to their fullest. He used the actual techniques used by EOD, RE, in exact detail, using real defused German bombs. I could almost feel the cold mud, a dull counter-part to the sheer terror.

    Period pieces are 100% dependent on the details to give their full effect. A wrong uniform, a 50-star flag in the 1940s, an anachronistic hairstyle or remark or attitude gives it all away every time. Hawkesworth gives nothing away in "Danger UXB;" he neither exaggerates nor underplays anything, nor does he throw in a "portent of the future" or "meeting the historical figure."

    As for the actors: superlatives won't do them justice. Talent abounds in well-written parts, great and small, with no room for star-tripping anywhere. Every role depends upon with whom they interact. About the only one I thought *may* have been short-shrifted was Maurice Röeves as Sgt. James; he seemed to be chomping on the bit to do more than bark orders, nurse the men or flip a coin through his fingers in a pub. Still, he was thoroughly believable as the backbone of Section 347.

    So: I liked it.
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      • January 4, 1981 (United States)
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