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Danger UXB (Youtube series)
Posted on 04/13/2013 6:28:10 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
The rest are at the video links.
Great story!
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To: RoosterRedux
If memory serves that series was over 25 years ago, and probably IMHO one of the best I ever remember seeing on PBS.
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posted on
04/13/2013 6:45:28 PM PDT
by
wita
To: wita
One of my faves. Hope you enjoy it.
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posted on
04/13/2013 6:48:28 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
To: RoosterRedux
Thanks so much for this. I was looking for it on Netflix and Hulu. I wonder why they don’t seem to have it. I watched it when first run and enjoyed it a lot.
I worked with a woman from the UK whose childhood friend was killed by an unexploded bomb.
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posted on
04/13/2013 6:50:58 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: wita
25? Couldn’t have been! But geez, we were at ... Well, then 1979! So 34 years ago! Not so long.
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posted on
04/13/2013 6:52:49 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: The Antiyuppie
Yur welcome...I am going to watch them all (I did many years ago and will do so again).
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posted on
04/13/2013 6:53:10 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
To: RoosterRedux
Wow! What a great series. One of my favorites.
To: Tijeras_Slim
Glad you like it...enjoy.
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posted on
04/13/2013 6:59:18 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
To: RoosterRedux
I still remember poor Jack Salt getting killed after all these years.
To: Tijeras_Slim
It was tough...and realistic. Obama would hate it.
It was English and Colonial.
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posted on
04/13/2013 7:02:45 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
To: RoosterRedux
It gets kinda sappy (npi) at the end of the series. I can just picture Lady Thatcher in the place of Churchill, cherishing those brave boys.
Major crush on Susan (Judy Geeson). Leftenant Ash was one lucky fella!
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posted on
04/13/2013 7:06:22 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
To: Big Giant Head
To: RoosterRedux
Mark to watch (again) Thanks!
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posted on
04/13/2013 7:19:29 PM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
To: Tijeras_Slim
I still remember poor Jack Salt getting killed after all these years.I have to suppose that's the scene that I remember so vividly, where he chases the kid away by yelling at him, then coaxes the fuse out saying, "Come on, you know you love it ... " . Then the pan away.
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posted on
04/13/2013 7:26:07 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: RoosterRedux
Wow. I’d love to watch those again. I thought they were only available for sale as a set.
Thanks!
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posted on
04/13/2013 7:28:35 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
04/13/2013 7:34:09 PM PDT
by
redreno
(Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
To: RoosterRedux
Arguably the greatest miniseries ever to air on Masterpiece Theatre.
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posted on
04/13/2013 7:37:02 PM PDT
by
Cyropaedia
("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
04/13/2013 8:53:45 PM PDT
by
chuckles
To: RoosterRedux
Great series! I bought the DVD set 10 or 15 years ago...probably time to pull out for another viewing. The show brilliantly depicts how the brave men in the UXB service aged and became jaded and cynical after starting off so idealistic and naive. It also does an outstanding job of showing the cat and mouse game between the Germans and the Brits on fuse technology and the tools developed to defeat increasingly diabolical fuses.
To: RoosterRedux
I remember the series vividly. You came to care for the various characters and when they were killed or wounded, it was as if you were part of the squad. Of the Masterpiece Theater series, my favorites are “Danger UXB” and “I, Claudius”.
“Danger UXB” is so intense that a friend who was in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) absolutely could not watch an episode completely through. It was THAT realistic. The BBC producers really got it right when they did the miniseries.
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