Danger UXB is set in 1944.
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 series chronicled the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company.The tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers in World War I were numbered 170-185 and 250-258 . 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 .