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  • Danger UXBDanger UXB | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

    Anthony Andrews plays a young Lt. in the early days of World War II who is assigned to a UXB unit. UXB is the signal that an aerial bomb has not exploded. Andrews' job is to deactivate bombs made by German technicians some of which have fuses specifically designed to kill him. The series takes us through his maturation as an officer a love story with Judy Geeson and the stresses and strains of wartime on the civilians and military in England. Episodes Comprise: 1. Dead Ma

  • The Agatha Christie Hour - The Girl In The Train / The Fourth Man [DVD]The Agatha Christie Hour - The Girl In The Train / The Fourth Man | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £6.30   |  Saving you £1.69 (26.83%)   |  RRP £7.99

    Episodes Comprise: The Girl in The Train: George Rowland a bored playboy disowned for the seventh time by his wealthy uncle is on the train to London. When a beautiful girl bursts into his compartment frantically begging to be hidden his life changes dramatically. The Fourth Man: A canon a lawyer and a psychiatrist find themselves together on a train bound for Newcastle. There is a fourth man in the compartment who apparently pays no attention to his companions' animated conversation. But do they have something to learn from this stranger?

  • Danger UXB [1979]Danger UXB | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

    Harrowing, funny, and immediately addictive, the 1979 British television series Danger UXB stars Anthony Andrews as Army Lieutenant Brian Ash, an engineering student whose excitement about his rapid commission as an officer during World War II is tempered by his unenviable post with a bomb disposal unit. Assigned to a fatality-heavy team that defuses unexploded German bombs scattered throughout London during the blitz, Ash faces down his terror and eventually becomes the closest thing to an expert one can be dismantling sometimes booby-trapped ordnance. In doing so, he earns the respect of his superiors as well as from the enlisted men working under him, and his protracted survival is nothing short of miraculous considering the tragic number of friends and colleagues Ash loses. There is a dark side, however. The longer Ash sticks with his unit, the more obsessive he becomes about his responsibility to keep London safe. Meanwhile, his nerves grow frayed and his morale collapses. Ash's desperate romance with a married woman (Judy Geeson) provides him little to hold onto, and when a true crisis ambushes his spirit toward the end, one can't be sure if he's headed for the scrap heap of permanent casualties. Based on the recollections of an actual wartime bomb disposer, Danger UXB was created by John Hawkesworth, who later produced (and wrote many episodes for) the fantastic Sherlock Holmes TV series starring Jeremy Brett. Despite many tense moments in Danger UXB's 13 episodes--one is always expecting a bomb to blow away a favorite character--the show is also graced by great humor (Ash's crew sometimes bring to mind Sergeant Bilko's hustlers) and a warm, likable cast. Andrews himself, perhaps, has never been better. This boxed set includes a History Channel documentary, "Bomb Squad." --Tom Keogh

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