#DANGER UXB

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

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[anthonyandrews]

anthony andrews in "danger uxb (1979)"

#icons #1970s #anthony andrews #danger uxb #brian ash

[zippocreed501]

Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash and John Roëves as Sergeant James

Danger UXB (1979)

#danger uxb #ww2 #drama #uk tv #bomb dispisal

[highretrogamelord]

Danger UXB for the ZX81

#youtube #Danger UXB #ZX81 #Action #Collecting #Collect

[isaxtr]

Danger UXB

#anthony andrews #Danger UXB

[mercurygray]

So I Hear You Liked...World War Two Dramas

What's that? You said you wanted a World War Two series where women actually speak to each other? Have I got a deal for you!

When Band of Brothers first came out, I did not have cable, but what I did have was a card at a library that owned seemingly every PBS drama ever broadcast. I know and love a lot of these shows, and I hope you do, too.

As we wait for Masters of the Air to join us, maybe you can fill some time with one of these!

Classic: These shows were made in the 70s and 80s and while the production values are not the same as something made more recently, they're all fun to watch.

Danger UXB - daily life in a bomb disposal unit.

Dad's Army - comedy show about the Home Guard.

Hogan's Heroes - situational comedy about life in a POW camp.

Piece of Cake - follows British pilots stationed in France as the Phony War begins.

Homefront Perspectives:

✨Housewife, 49 - Based on the wartime diary of Nella Last, who participated in the Mass Observation project. One of my favorites.

✨Foyle’s War - procedural crime drama following DCS Foyle and hsi team as he solves murders in wartime Britain. Another favorite.

Island at War - Wartime life on the Channel Islands during the German occupation

Land Girls - Follows the lives of a group of Land Girls working on an estate farm.

Bomb Girls - Follows the lives of a group of workers in a Toronto munitions factory.

Home Fires - Life in a small British town near an air base. Based on a book.

World On Fire - Follows the disparate lives of several people in several countries as the war begins.

✨All Creatures Great and Small - The life of Yorkshire Vet James Herriot, based on the book series of the same title. A favorite, both the 1970s original and the 2020 version.

A French Village - Daily life in a French village is upended as the Germans invade. Follows the same village through the entire war.

My Mother and Other Strangers - An Irish village deals with the introduction of an American Air Force base.

Colditz - life in one of the war's most infamous POW camps. Features Damian Lewis!!

Atlantic Crossing - the life of Crown Princess Marta of Norway as she tries to advocate for her country while living in the United States.

The Halycon - Life in a posh London hotel during the 1940s

Spies and Science:

X Company - Canadian drama about life overseas for spies

Resistance - French wartime drama about a woman in the French underground movement

Restless - Postwar drama about a woman who spied for the Russians in England during the war.

✨Manhattan - If you liked Oppenheimer, have I got a show for you!! Follows the lives of several scientists and their families as they move to Los Alamos. A favorite.

✨The Heavy Water War - Norwegian/British operations Grouse and Gunnerside to destroy German heavy water plant. A favorite.

The Twelfth Man - Norwegian sabotage operation gets shot down in occupied Norway.

✨Generation War - German experience of war from variety of perspectives. This show is excellent. Everyone should watch this.

✨SAS: Rogue Heroes - Follows the foundation of a parachute regiment in North Africa that would eventually become the basis for Britain's commando units. A favorite.

Postwar:

A Place to Call Home - very soapy Australian post-war drama about an upperclass family.

Our Wonder Years - Follows three sisters in post-war Germany as they attempt to confront the past.

Tannbach - Follows a family whose German town is split in two along the new East-West border.

The Defeated - Crime drama following a policeman trying to find his brother in post-war Berlin

Small Island- a Jamaican woman moves to London after the war and tries to adjust to a country that doesn't want her there

Call the Midwife - Social drama in the 1960s addressing the health and lives of the post-war poor of London.

#band of brothers #so i hear you liked #i'm gonna rec it #masters of the air

[scotianostra]

Happy 78th Birthday Kenneth Cranham the Scottish film, television, radio and stage actor.

Kenneth, in my opinion is one of the most recognisable faces in acting, he was born in Dunfermline in 1944  to Margaret McKay Ferguson Cranham spent his early years in Lochgelly, Fife. 

He didn’t meet his father, who was in the army, until he was 18-months-old as the country had tried to avoid the mass unemployment that happened after end of the First World War and he was sent off to Africa.

When he was approaching school age the family moved to Camberwell, south London, where he said and shared a bedroom with my parents from the ages of four to 10.

Kenneth started acting at school and was lucky enough to get a paying job before he even left school, with a part in a radio play. His first big break came when he played the part of Noah Claypole on the musical Oliver! in 1966, since then it seems he has hardly been out of work, from Z Cars, Softly, Softly Task force and Danger UXB in the 70’s,  Brideshead Revisited, Reilly: Ace of Spies and his most famous part as the title role in Shine on Harvey Moon, Heart of the High Country, Inspector Morse, Boon in the 80’s and Minder, Heartbeat and Kavanagh QC in the 90’s it is fair to say most of his acting credits have been on the small screen.

Cranham however has acted alongside some heavyweight cinema stars including Tom Cruise in Valkyrie, Angelina Jolie in Maleficent and Daniel Craig in Layer Cake. Horror fans will also know him as Dr. Philip Channard in the second Hellraiser film. More up to date he was in Hatton Garden a four-part drama based on the notorious cash and jewellery burglary.

To show you how prolific Kenneth Cranham has been, IMDB say he has clocked up at least 200 acting jobs, that’s over different genres,  he also finds time to tread the boards and he won a prestigious  2016 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in The Father. His latest roles have been in the UK TV series  Scarborough and The Good Karma Hospital another TV series set in a coastal town in tropical South India. 2022 saw him appear in the J K Rowling penned  C.B. Strike

Although he moved away from Scotland at a young age Kenneth says:

 “I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

“I feel at home in Scotland and go back whenever I can.

“I’ve played the Edinburgh Festival twice and I get the train across the Forth Bridge to Lochgelly, just to see it.”

#Scotland #scottish #actor #television #theatre #films #happy birhtday

[abriefingwithmichael]

“Baywatch” 052 (1992)

Cheesy fun.

Baywatch does its version of The Little Mermaid, in a story where a princess comes ashore (from a yacht!) to see what life is like among ordinary people.

Laura Harring (Mulholland Drive) is the princess and Maurice Roëves (Danger UXB, Doctor Who) is the man chasing her.

First of 2 episodes where Peter Kiwitt has a writing credit. First of 9 episodes directed by Parker Stevenson.

The a-story is Mitch-centric. And Hobie is heavily involved, too, as the princesss charms both of them. The b-story gives some nice material to Richard Jaeckel as Ben.

No sign of Summer, Matt, Stephanie, or Garner in this one. And Slade is pretty much gone from the show, at this point.

CJ appears in a couple of filler scenes. An excuse to get Pamela Anderson into a really small bikini. She almost doesn’t appear in uniform in this episode.

While the story is cheesy, it is earnestly done. Good performances and music. And the action sequence (chase) at the end looks great.

8/10

#Baywatch

[militaryhistoria]

Okinawa, 60000 UXBs are Discovered Every Year

Okinawa Discovered has been an important part of Japan’s history for over 75 years, since the end of World War II. It was the site of one of the last and most terrible battles of the war, and the legacy of that battle still remains. Every year, over 60,000 unexploded bombs (UXBs) are discovered in Okinawa, making it one of the most dangerous places in the world.

#military #history #historia

[britappreciation]

Happy Birthday, Anthony Andrews. Perfect as the dashing WWII bomb disposal officer, Brian Ash, in Danger UXB.

#Anthony Andrews #Judy Geeson #Danger UXB

[kwebtv]

Anthony Andrews and Judy Geeson in “Danger UXB”. 

#Danger UXB #TV #Anthony Andrews #Judy Geeson

[anthonyandrews]

anthony andrews in "danger uxb (1979)"

#icons #1970s tv #anthony andrews #danger uxb #brian ash

[tavoit]

Danger. Unexploded Andrews. 1979.

#anthony andrews #Danger UXB

[cultfaction]

Heroes of Cult: Judy Geeson

Heroes of Cult: Judy Geeson

Judy Geeson was Born in Arundel, Sussex, on 10th September 1948. At the age of ten years old her family moved to London and soon enrolled Judy and sister Sally Geeson (who would go onto have her own successful career with roles in Bless This House, The Oblong Box, Cry of the Banshee) into the Corona Academy, Chiswick. Judy initially had ambitions of becoming a professional ballet dancer but…

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#10 Rillington Place #31 #Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion #Baywatch Nights #Berserk #Blackmail #Bless This House #Boon #Brannigan #Carry On England #Charmed #Cry of the Banshee #Danger Man #Danger UXB #Diagnosis Murder #Dixon of Dock Green #Doom Watch #Emergency Ward 10 #Fear in the Night #featured #Fired Up #Gilmore Girls #Hammerhead #Houdini #Inseminoid #It Happened at Nightmare Inn #Judy Geeson #MacGyver #Mad About You #Man in a Suitcase

[vintage1981]

Deborah Watling (1948 - 2017)

Actress Deborah Watling, known to “Doctor Who” fans for her role as Victoria Waterfield, one of the second Doctor’s traveling companions, died Friday, July 21, 2017, of lung cancer, according to multiple news sources. She was 69.

Watling was diagnosed with the disease just six weeks ago.

The daughter of actors Jack Watling and Patricia Hicks, 18-year-old Deborah Watling already had a resume of stage and television credits when she was hired in 1966 to join the cast of “Doctor Who,” then starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor and Frazer Hines as his companion Jamie.

Watling’s character, Victoria, was a teenager from 1860s England, orphaned during the events of the first serial she appeared in, 1967’s “The Evil of the Daleks,” after which she joined the Doctor and Jamie on their adventures through time and space.

Watling appeared on seven serials, 40 episodes in all, that aired in 1967 and 1968: “The Evil of the Daleks,” “The Tomb of the Cybermen,” “The Abominable Snowmen,” “The Ice Warriors,” “The Enemy of the World,” “The Web of Fear,” and “Fury From the Deep.” Because videotape was reused, a BBC policy in place at the time, most of this work is no longer extant, but “The Tomb of the Cybermen” and “The Enemy of the World” have been preserved intact.

Following her stint on “Doctor Who,” Watling co-starred with Cliff Richard in the film “Take Me High” and appeared with Ringo Starr and David Essex in “That’ll Be the Day.” Both films were released in 1973. She also appeared on numerous television shows and acted in stage productions throughout the following decades.

She reprised her role as Victoria Waterford several times, including on 1993’s “Doctor Who” 30th-anniversary special, “Dimensions in Time,” in the 1995 direct-to-video drama “Downtime,” and on 2013’s farcical 50th-anniversary special, “The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.”

Several fellow “Doctor Who” cast members paid tribute to Watling on Twitter Friday.

“Loved her so much,” tweeted her co-star Frazer Hines.

“We had so many laughs & heart-to-hearts,” said 1980s companion Nicola Bryant.

Watling is survived by her husband, Steve Turner, and her brother, Giles Watling, a Conservative Party member of the British Parliament and sister Dilys Watling.

#Doctor Who #Deborah Watling #Victoria Waterield #Frazer Hines #Nicola Bryant #TARDIS #Patrick Troughton #lung cancer #Ringo Starr #Danger UXB #The Tomb of the Cybermen #Downtime #Reeltime Pictures #Yeti

[retrocgads]

UK 1983

#UK1983 #MICRO POWER LTD #ACTION #STRATEGY #BBC #CHESS #MOON RAIDER #DANGER! UXB #ESCAPE FROM MOONBASE ALPHA #ELECTRON