#DANGER! UXB

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[renaultphile]

Danger UXB available on Internet archive!

I've been watching this on Talking Pictures TV and now I've discovered that the whole series is available on the Internet Archive. This is a great little British Drama made in the 70s about WW2 bomb disposal.

[anthonyandrews]

anthony andrews in "danger uxb (1979)"

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Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash and John Roëves as Sergeant James

Danger UXB (1979)

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Danger UXB for the ZX81

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So I Hear You Liked...World War Two Dramas

What's that? You said you wanted a World War Two series where women actually speak to each other? Have I got a deal for you!

When Band of Brothers first came out, I did not have cable, but what I did have was a card at a library that owned seemingly every PBS drama ever broadcast. I know and love a lot of these shows, and I hope you do, too.

As we wait for Masters of the Air to join us, maybe you can fill some time with one of these!

Classic: These shows were made in the 70s and 80s and while the production values are not the same as something made more recently, they're all fun to watch.

Danger UXB - daily life in a bomb disposal unit.

Dad's Army - comedy show about the Home Guard.

Hogan's Heroes - situational comedy about life in a POW camp.

Piece of Cake - follows British pilots stationed in France as the Phony War begins.

Homefront Perspectives:

✨Housewife, 49 - Based on the wartime diary of Nella Last, who participated in the Mass Observation project. One of my favorites.

✨Foyle’s War - procedural crime drama following DCS Foyle and hsi team as he solves murders in wartime Britain. Another favorite.

Island at War - Wartime life on the Channel Islands during the German occupation

Land Girls - Follows the lives of a group of Land Girls working on an estate farm.

Bomb Girls - Follows the lives of a group of workers in a Toronto munitions factory.

Home Fires - Life in a small British town near an air base. Based on a book.

World On Fire - Follows the disparate lives of several people in several countries as the war begins.

✨All Creatures Great and Small - The life of Yorkshire Vet James Herriot, based on the book series of the same title. A favorite, both the 1970s original and the 2020 version.

A French Village - Daily life in a French village is upended as the Germans invade. Follows the same village through the entire war.

My Mother and Other Strangers - An Irish village deals with the introduction of an American Air Force base.

Colditz - life in one of the war's most infamous POW camps. Features Damian Lewis!!

Atlantic Crossing - the life of Crown Princess Marta of Norway as she tries to advocate for her country while living in the United States.

The Halycon - Life in a posh London hotel during the 1940s

Spies and Science:

X Company - Canadian drama about life overseas for spies

Resistance - French wartime drama about a woman in the French underground movement

Restless - Postwar drama about a woman who spied for the Russians in England during the war.

✨Manhattan - If you liked Oppenheimer, have I got a show for you!! Follows the lives of several scientists and their families as they move to Los Alamos. A favorite.

✨The Heavy Water War - Norwegian/British operations Grouse and Gunnerside to destroy German heavy water plant. A favorite.

The Twelfth Man - Norwegian sabotage operation gets shot down in occupied Norway.

✨Generation War - German experience of war from variety of perspectives. This show is excellent. Everyone should watch this.

✨SAS: Rogue Heroes - Follows the foundation of a parachute regiment in North Africa that would eventually become the basis for Britain's commando units. A favorite.

Postwar:

A Place to Call Home - very soapy Australian post-war drama about an upperclass family.

Our Wonder Years - Follows three sisters in post-war Germany as they attempt to confront the past.

Tannbach - Follows a family whose German town is split in two along the new East-West border.

The Defeated - Crime drama following a policeman trying to find his brother in post-war Berlin

Small Island- a Jamaican woman moves to London after the war and tries to adjust to a country that doesn't want her there

Call the Midwife - Social drama in the 1960s addressing the health and lives of the post-war poor of London.

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Genre / Show

So I've been thinking about this idea that Doctor Who Season One might be about being a TV show, and wondering if the episodes might map onto genres, or perhaps even directly to actual TV shows.

Here's what I've come up with so far...

Christmas Special: Christmas Special / Long Lost Family

Space Babies: Childrens TV / ???

The Devil's Chord: Musical / ???

Boom: Suspense / Danger UXB

73 Yards: Folk Horror / Inside Number 9

Dot and Bubble: Science Fiction / Black Mirror

Rogue: Regency / Bridgerton

Some of these are obviously a bit of a push (looking at you in particular here, Danger UXB) but I'm wondering if there might be something in it.

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hi… do we like the purple……

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Happy 78th Birthday Kenneth Cranham the Scottish film, television, radio and stage actor.

Kenneth, in my opinion is one of the most recognisable faces in acting, he was born in Dunfermline in 1944  to Margaret McKay Ferguson Cranham spent his early years in Lochgelly, Fife. 

He didn’t meet his father, who was in the army, until he was 18-months-old as the country had tried to avoid the mass unemployment that happened after end of the First World War and he was sent off to Africa.

When he was approaching school age the family moved to Camberwell, south London, where he said and shared a bedroom with my parents from the ages of four to 10.

Kenneth started acting at school and was lucky enough to get a paying job before he even left school, with a part in a radio play. His first big break came when he played the part of Noah Claypole on the musical Oliver! in 1966, since then it seems he has hardly been out of work, from Z Cars, Softly, Softly Task force and Danger UXB in the 70’s,  Brideshead Revisited, Reilly: Ace of Spies and his most famous part as the title role in Shine on Harvey Moon, Heart of the High Country, Inspector Morse, Boon in the 80’s and Minder, Heartbeat and Kavanagh QC in the 90’s it is fair to say most of his acting credits have been on the small screen.

Cranham however has acted alongside some heavyweight cinema stars including Tom Cruise in Valkyrie, Angelina Jolie in Maleficent and Daniel Craig in Layer Cake. Horror fans will also know him as Dr. Philip Channard in the second Hellraiser film. More up to date he was in Hatton Garden a four-part drama based on the notorious cash and jewellery burglary.

To show you how prolific Kenneth Cranham has been, IMDB say he has clocked up at least 200 acting jobs, that’s over different genres,  he also finds time to tread the boards and he won a prestigious  2016 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in The Father. His latest roles have been in the UK TV series  Scarborough and The Good Karma Hospital another TV series set in a coastal town in tropical South India. 2022 saw him appear in the J K Rowling penned  C.B. Strike

Although he moved away from Scotland at a young age Kenneth says:

 “I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

“I feel at home in Scotland and go back whenever I can.

“I’ve played the Edinburgh Festival twice and I get the train across the Forth Bridge to Lochgelly, just to see it.”

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Danger UXB - The Story of Six Brave Royal Engineers Who Died at Nantwich

On 17th August, 1940, six brave men from the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal team sadly lost their lives trying to defuse a bomb in the fields around Nantwich in Cheshire, and this is their story……… Thanks to the work and knowledge of local historian, Andrew Lamberton, I was made aware of the story of the six bomb disposal men that were killed in the early stages of WW2, close to the town of…

[abriefingwithmichael]

“Baywatch” 052 (1992)

Cheesy fun.

Baywatch does its version of The Little Mermaid, in a story where a princess comes ashore (from a yacht!) to see what life is like among ordinary people.

Laura Harring (Mulholland Drive) is the princess and Maurice Roëves (Danger UXB, Doctor Who) is the man chasing her.

First of 2 episodes where Peter Kiwitt has a writing credit. First of 9 episodes directed by Parker Stevenson.

The a-story is Mitch-centric. And Hobie is heavily involved, too, as the princesss charms both of them. The b-story gives some nice material to Richard Jaeckel as Ben.

No sign of Summer, Matt, Stephanie, or Garner in this one. And Slade is pretty much gone from the show, at this point.

CJ appears in a couple of filler scenes. An excuse to get Pamela Anderson into a really small bikini. She almost doesn’t appear in uniform in this episode.

While the story is cheesy, it is earnestly done. Good performances and music. And the action sequence (chase) at the end looks great.

8/10

[militaryhistoria]

Okinawa, 60000 UXBs are Discovered Every Year

Okinawa Discovered has been an important part of Japan’s history for over 75 years, since the end of World War II. It was the site of one of the last and most terrible battles of the war, and the legacy of that battle still remains. Every year, over 60,000 unexploded bombs (UXBs) are discovered in Okinawa, making it one of the most dangerous places in the world.

[anthonyandrews]

anthony andrews in "danger uxb (1979)"

[retrocgads]

UK 1983

[britappreciation]

Happy Birthday, Anthony Andrews. Perfect as the dashing WWII bomb disposal officer, Brian Ash, in Danger UXB.

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