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When a young Royal Engineer Officer is killed trying to defuse a bomb, he is replaced by raw officer recruit Brian Ash. Ash is shocked to discover that his new unit, the 97th Tunnelling Company, is in fact a hastily formed bomb disposal squad. With the Blitz devastating London every night and making massive demands on Royal Engineers' manpower, he is to take command of 347 Section forthwith. It's not long before he's facing the real thing at close range, with his men looking on from a safe distance, making bets as to whether he'll go the same way as his predecessor... This highly popular and critically-acclaimed series was created and produced by John Hawkesworth (Upstairs, Downstairs, the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes stories) and starred Anthony Andrews (Brideshead Revisited, Cambridge Spies) in an early role, with Judy Geeson (The Eagle Has Landed, Brannigan), Iain Cuthbertson (Budgie, Doctor Who) and Maurice Roëves (Tutti Frutti, Hillsborough). This outstanding series was first broadcast on ITV1 in 1979 and is presented here complete and uncut. Special Features Cast Iron Killers: exclusive documentary featuring Anthony Andrews, Maurice Roëves, Deborah Watling and George Innes, producers Verity Lambert, Johnny Goodman and Christopher Neame, directors Roy Ward Baker, Simon Langton and Ferdinand Simon Langton and Ferdinand Fairfax and writer Jeremy Paul. Commentaries on 4 episode PDF files of 3 Jeremy Paul scripts
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Danger UXB (1979)
145 min
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.