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''Danger UXB'' was 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 chronicled the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company.〔The tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers in World War I were numbered 170-185 and 250-258. Seven of them (170-173 and 178-180), were revived in 1939-1940, serving on Malta and Gibraltar, but not in bomb disposal.〕 which as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs ("UXBs") 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 (Judy Geeson), 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.〔Hartley (1958), p. 272〕 Technical adviser was Lt. Col. E. E. Gooch, RE (AER), Rtd. The programme appeared on the US 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 and in New Zealand on Television New Zealand. ==Cast== ;347 Section, 97 Company *Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, section bomb disposal officer *Maurice Roëves as Sergeant James, section sergeant *Ken Kitson as Corporal Samuel Horrocks, a large but timid section NCO *Kenneth Cranham as Lance Corporal Jack Salt, a married man anxious about the safety of his wife and children *George Innes as Sapper Jim Wilkins, section driver, a conniving petty thief and scrounger who avoids as much work as he can *Gordon Kane as Sapper Gordon Mulley, also Ash's batman who falls in love with the landlady's daughter *Robert Pugh as Sapper 'Tiny' Powell, a coarse and often bullying Welshman who plays a mean piano *Robert Longden as Sapper Copping *David Auker as Sapper Baines, a replacement who in peacetime was a stage actor and comedian *Martin Neil as Private John Brinckley, a replacement from the Non-Combatant Corps *John Bowler as Sapper Scott, a replacement *Bryan Burdon as Sapper Binns, a replacement ;97 Company, Royal Engineers *Peter Cartwright as Major Luckhurst, commanding officer *Ken Farrington as Captain 'Fannie' Francis, second in command (2IC) and later commanding officer *Royston Tickner as Lieutenant Hamish Leckie, adjutant and Scottish veteran of World War I *Jeremy Sinden as Lieutenant Ivor Rodgers, Ash's good friend, later 2IC and commanding officer *Steven Grives as Lieutenant Ken Machin *Osmund Bullock as Lieutenant Alan Pringle *David Shaughnessy as Lieutenant Tim Carter-Brown *Nick Brimble as Lieutenant Gresham *Norman Chappell as Corporal Mould, mess corporal, who is constantly twitted by Ivor Rodgers ;Others *Iain Cuthbertson as Doctor Gillespie, a boffin specializing in defeating German bomb fuses *Judy Geeson as Susan Mount, Gillespie's married daughter *David Buck as Stephen Mount, Susan's codebreaker husband *Moyra Fraser as Aunt Do-Do, Brian's surrogate mother *Marjie Lawrence as Mrs. Baker, landlady of Brian's billet *Deborah Watling as Norma, Mrs. Baker's daughter and Sapper Mulley's paramour *David Wood as Lieutenant Roger Symes, 81 Company RE *Christopher Good as Captain West, RE *Nick Tate as Lieutenant Chris Craik, Royal Navy, a bomb disposal officer specializing in naval mines *Tim Pigott-Smith as Harry Winthrop, Dr. Gillespie's associate at Cambridge *Deborah Grant as Elspeth, Brian's paramour while stationed at Cambridge *Geraldine Gardner as Mickey, a cabaret dancer who fancies Lance-Corporal Salt 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Danger UXB」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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