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 was filmed in 1978 in and around the Clapham , Streatham and Tooting areas of South London . The programme appeared on the US PBS as a segment of Masterpiece Theatre from 4 January -- 5 April 1981 . Euston Films is a British film and television production company .
Danger UXB is from 1981.