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A 1979 ITV series about the activities of a [[Bomb Disposal]] unit in Britain during [[World War Two]].

 

Lieutenant Brian Ash is a newly-commissioned officer assigned to [[wikipedia:Royal Engineer tunnelling companies|97 Tunnelling Company of the Royal Engineers]]. He is shocked to find his job involves the defusing of UXB's (unexploded bombs), a task he must carry out with only rudimentary training. Even as the unit gains experience and better equipment becomes available, their German opponents are continually adapting the bombs to make them more difficult to defuse.

 

* [[Anyone Can Die]]

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Many of the bomb-disposal devices, at least on first appearance. The fuse extractor can only be used on level ground (the bomb is stuck in a wall halfway up a building). The clockstopper is an enormous magnet that stops the timer but not the spring-loaded [[Booby Trap]]. The steam steriliser is too big for the section lorry and vibrates constantly. In the final episode they're using a primitive metal detector and assume it'll be unreliable too, especially as it's detecting a bomb where there's no impact crater. Turns out it's detecting a bomb that fell early in the war but was not reported.