Danger UXB

- Season 1

(1979)

Newly-promoted Second Lieutentant Brian Ash joins his new regiment only to find that they are assigned to bomb disposal in London. Ash is thrown in at the deep end when he and his men are sent to a bomb site.

Ash tackles a bomb that is not considered vital with a new fuse extractor that doesn't work properly. New Lieutenant Machin is placed with Ash to get some on-the-job training. Major Francis criticises Ash after a patriotic magazine article profiles 347 Section.

Ash and Machin are recalled to London from a bomb disposal course and attend to a bomb in a school yard that is dangerously close to a telephone exchange. When another bomb is uncovered close by, Ash reluctantly allows Machin to defuse the second bomb.

An unorthodox doctor comes up with a new way of disarming UXBs - it's up to Ash and his men to test it.

The UXB in a Soho nightclub can't be defused - according to the Germans. While the men of 347 Section pit their skills against German ingenuity, Ash (Anthony Andrews) receives a letter from Susan (judy Geeson), the scientist's daughter..

The tensions and terror of blitz-torn London breed passion and fear in men and women who have to endure them.

While working on a bomb at a gas works, the company find a second bomb with a time fuse.

A new commanding officer's methods of discipline border on the psychotic, and the overworked men of 347 Section consider mutiny. Meanwhile, Ash and Susan discuss their future.

Ash learns how to dispose the new German land mines, thanks to the help of naval experts. The bad news is that Susan has decided to return to her husband.

Ash and the men of 347 Section tackle Hitler's latest deadly invention, the butterfly bomb, designed to kill a man at 25 yards. Meanwhile, Salt breaks orders again, but for the last time.

A large UXB in the London Underground brings Ash face-to-face with a new type of fuse. Meanwhile, Susan may not be forever lost.

347 Section is moving to the coast in preparation for D-Day. Before he leaves, Ash asks Susan to marry him -- but will it be too late?

Are Ash's injuries too much to overcome -- or is it depression over the many lives lost? After being talked out of the hospital to defuse an "antique" bomb, he discovers it was a ruse to restore his confidence.