Danger UXB is a TV show.
Danger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series set during the Second World War developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash , an officer in the Royal Engineers . 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 programme appeared on the US PBS as a segment of Masterpiece Theatre from 4 January -- 5 April 1981 .