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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 [
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* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Cpl Salt is always willing to help a [[Damsel in Distress]], {{spoiler|which eventually leads to his death.}}
* [[Eek! A Mouse!]]: A sapper screams when he encounters a rat, [[Cat Scare|just when Ash is about to defuse a bomb]] designed to blow up at the slightest touch.
* [[The End
* [[Ensign Newbie]]: Every officer by default at the beginning of the war, as there's no training or experience in bomb disposal available. Furthermore there's no point wasting Sandhurst-trained officers on [[High Turnover Rate|a job that will get them killed in a few weeks]], so bomb disposal officers are just promoted up from the ranks.
* [[A Father to His Men]]: Major Luckhurst. Ivor Rodgers takes on this persona after he's promoted to command of the unit.
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{{quote| '''Major Luckhurst:''' "Apparently some chap was hawking the details of these things (German detonators) in London before the war. No-one listened to him."}}
** Ash tries to free the detonator from a bomb stuck halfway up a brick wall by kicking it -- causing it to fall thirty feet to the ground. He gets strips torn off him by his CO, especially since the building it was stuck in was useless to the war effort.
* [[If You Die, I Call Your Stuff]]: Ash finds himself being issued with the uniform and billet of the last man killed.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: In "Just Like a Woman" audience tension is created when a kid sneaks off to look at the bomb being defused, but when it goes off he suffers no major injuries despite having a hut collapse on him.
* [[Kill It With Ice]]: The Y detonator has a mercury switch which detonates if the bomb is moved, so Dr Gillespie suggests using liquid oxygen to neutralise the battery long enough for the detonator to be removed. Needless to say Ash is the one who has to put this theory to the test.
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* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: A bomb disposal officer is killed in the opening scene. Ash is his replacement with a life expectancy of only seven weeks.
* [[Sergeant Rock]]: Sergeant James
* [[Screw the War,
* [[The Scrounger]]: Corporal Mould, the mess orderly. Sapper Wilkins from Ash's section.
* [[The So-Called Coward]]: Conscientious objector John Brinkley, who gets roughed up by one of the sappers on his arrival at the unit. Brinkley later becomes a bomb disposal officer {{spoiler|and gets blown up in front of the sapper who assaulted him; the latter breaks down in hysterics.}}
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