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(February 1944) The pregnant Norma Baker and Gordon Mulley prepare to marry. A bomb just misses 347 Section's barracks and Mulley is nearly asphyxiated when he falls into its camouflet. Brian's difficult recovery strains his relationship with Susan near to breaking point as he worries about being invalided out of the service. He refuses to see anyone or attend the wedding until Sergeant James visits him and succeeds in breaking through his depression. Brian is restored to active service but when he is promoted to captain and transferred to what seems a meaningless position in Somerset, he feels useless. Ivor offers him an unofficial chance to defuze a recently discovered and relatively routine bomb dropped years before. Dismantling the fuze, however, Brian finds a note inside that says 'With Love from Adolf.' The series ends with Captain Ash and Sergeant James blowing up the defuzed Hermann with a block of plastic explosive. (fonte: Wikipedia)

(September 1943) Brian is posted back to 347 Section, which relocates to Brighton to remove land mines laid in 1940 in anticipation of the German invasion that never came. Susan and Brian become engaged before he leaves. The former Private John Brinckley, Non-Combatant Corps, has joined the Royal Engineers and been commissioned as a bomb disposal officer. He is assigned to Brian for further training and seasoning. 347 Section is assigned a seaside pleasure pier where anti-personnel mines have been hidden under the decking. Ivor Rogers, still in command of 97 Company, instructs Brian to delegate the work (clearly grooming him for command); but when Lieutenant Brinckley is killed by an unmarked mine, Brian must resume clearing the explosives. While attempting to defuze a device installed on the slipway of the lifeboat station, he is badly injured when it goes off and blows him into the water. (fonte: Wikipedia)

(January 1943) A year after Brian and Susan have broken up, they have an awkward reunion when her father, Dr Gillespie, asks for Brian to be posted to his lab to determine how to defuze the new German Y fuze. The design uses multiple battery-operated mercury tilt switches to detect any movement of the fuze and close the circuit. The fuze also detonates automatically if a battery is short-circuited; its sole purpose is to kill bomb disposal officers. Gillespie's solution is to freeze the insides of the bomb to -20 °C to render the batteries inert, using liquid oxygen poured into a makeshift plasticine dam on the bomb's casing, a dangerous and time-consuming process.[n 5] While in Cambridge, Brian has an affair with Elspeth, a woman who has lost the Royal Air Force bomber pilot she loved. The first trial of the Type Y freezing process is for a UXB assigned to 347 Section for disposal, following which Brian learns that Stephen Mount has committed suicide. (fonte: Wikipedia)

(December 1942) The Germans attempt to sow confusion and fear in the British countryside by dropping hundreds of food can-sized butterfly bombs on a small village. Some detonate if moved, while others are time-delayed. The bombs end up in all manner of places, and their sheer numbers make it impossible for Brian to deal with them on his own; all of 347 Section, down to the lowest rank, must work to secure and blow them up. Lance-Corporal Salt is killed by one whilst helping yet another woman in distress. (fonte: Wikipedia)

(December 1941) 347 Section receives two replacements, Sapper Scott and Private Brinckley, the latter a Quaker conscientious objector serving in the Non-Combatant Corps who engenders suspicion from some of the others in the section. Powell picks a fight with Brinckley, but is beaten up by Salt to stop the attack. Salt has no sympathy for Brinckley's pacifist beliefs and advises him to think about the innocents being killed in the war. Brian helps Lieutenant Craik, an Australian serving in the Royal Navy, defuze a parachute mine designed to detonate just seventeen seconds after its timer mechanism starts.[n 4] Susan is chafing with guilt over their affair, and Brian proposes marriage. However, her husband, a codebreaker at Bletchley Park, has a nervous breakdown. She is advised to look after him, prompting her to break off her relationship with Brian without explanation. Dr. Gillespie takes her to Cambridge, where he has set up a new laboratory. (fonte: Wikipedia)

(May 1941) Major Francis' heavy-handed measures to impose peacetime discipline and regimental customs on 97 Company cause widespread resentment, leading to near-mutiny. He is particularly harsh with Brian's section after his men commit minor breaches of discipline, but for a more personal reason: Brian's affair with a married woman reminds him of his own wife's ongoing infidelity. When Francis is seen secretly burning letters commending Ash that he pilfered from the company files, Susan reconstructs the file and gets her father to use his influence to have Francis posted to a general construction company in Scotland. Captain Ivor Rodgers, 97 Company's second-in-command, is promoted to major and takes command of 97 Company. His first act is to recommend Brian for the MBE. (fonte: Wikipedia)

(December 1940) While the section works on a bomb at a gas works, Lance Corporal Salt wanders off, hears cries for help, and finds a young woman trapped beside a second bomb with a time fuze. Without Brian's knowledge or permission, Salt and several other men take a great risk and manhandle the bomb into the Thames mudflats just before it explodes. Later, unable to get leave, Salt goes absent without leave (AWOL), to try to persuade his wife to leave Manchester with their children, but a German bomb dropped during a single-plane daylight raid kills her and injures him. When Salt recovers, he is demoted to sapper and fined two days' pay. Captain Francis is resentful that Salt's punishment is minor, but Luckhurst informs him that since he will shortly be taking command of 97 Company, as Luckhurst has been promoted, he should consider being more humane in enforcing regulations in a high-risk unit during wartime. (fonte: Wikipedia)

(October 1940) 347 section is given a much-needed weekend off duty. Brian's plans to sleep are drastically changed when Susan seeks him out, and they stay together in a drab hotel in Bromley using assumed names. However, Brian is called back to work, cutting short their tryst, when Luckhurst sends him to assist 81 Company, which is hard-pressed by activity and casualties, with two bombs along a railway line. By the time he arrives, one of the bombs has exploded, killing half of an 81 Company section and emotionally crippling its officer. Brian successfully deals with the other bomb, which is double-fuzed with both a ticking type 17 and an active type 50. Susan grows impatient waiting for him and returns home to find an unexpected visitor: her husband Stephen. (fonte: Wikipedia)

(September 1940) The section digs for a huge bomb in the sewers beneath a risqué nightclub. Entertained by Copping's replacement, Sapper Baines, and Mickey, a dancer stranded at the club, the section eats and drinks the club's wares and is in no hurry to find the bomb. Mickey and Lance Corporal Salt begin a casual affair. Later, the section's rankers assist Salt in smuggling Mickey clear of the nightclub, where (due to the UXB) civilians are not supposed to be. After the bomb is located, Brian discovers that it is equipped with the new type 50, a hypersensitive fuze designed to detonate when the usual defuzing procedures are employed. The boffins have just developed a counter-tactic, however, and Brian is the first to try it: the BD liquid discharger, which forces a mixture of alcohol, benzene and salt into the fuze that causes the capacitors in the fuze to discharge their stored electricity harmlessly, thus neutralising the fuze.[2] When Susan comes up to London, Brian takes her out for a night of dining and dancing. (fonte: Wikipedia)

(September 1940) A sceptical Brian is ordered to deliver a defuzed but otherwise intact bomb to Dr. Gillespie, a boffin in Kent who has come up with a novel solution to bypassing the Zeus 40: drilling a hole in the bomb casing and piping in steam to emulsify the explosive so it flows out of the casing for removal. Brian initially clashes with Gillespie's married daughter Susan, but the two come to respect each other after Brian is assigned to assist Gillespie. During its first field trial, on a bomb with a tricky double fuze mechanism the new method works in removing the bulk of the explosive and rendering the bomb safe, but Sapper Copping is killed by the fuse charge when the timer is restarted by the vibrations from a passing tube train and it detonates. (fonte: Wikipedia)

(September 1940) On their course, they learn that the boffins have developed a powerful electromagnetic "clockstopper" to counter the type 17's fuze. Brian gives in to Machin's pleadings and allows him to finish disarming the type 17 discovered in a residential garden while Brian goes to deal with a Category A (highest priority) bomb near a telephone exchange. While he is gone, the type 17 explodes, killing Machin despite the use of the clockstopper. He later learns that Machin had only just got engaged to his fiancée and that she is pregnant. He later finds the Category A bomb has ruptured without exploding, and has an intact type 17 fuze. Brian learns that the type 17 is also rigged with an anti-handling device called the Zeus 40[n 3] that detonates if there is an attempt to extract the fuze. (fonte: Wikipedia)

(September 1940) Brian is reprimanded, first by Captain Francis for a newspaper story about the section that the 2IC believes injures the dignity of the service, then by Major Luckhurst for his reckless behaviour when defuzing a low-priority bomb. Brian becomes acquainted with a new officer, Ken Machin, who is assigned to his tutelage and billeted with him. Ken introduces Brian to his wife. Brian and Ken find they are to be sent on a hastily developed new course on bomb disposal. (fonte: Wikipedia)

(September 1940) Brian Ash, a direct entry officer of the Royal Engineers after ten weeks of basic training at the Hampshire Depot, joins 97 Tunnelling Company.[n 2] Without benefit of training as a bomb disposal officer, he is immediately put in charge of a section whose previous officer was killed by a bomb. The unexploded bombs they deal with have been armed by electrical fuzes that activate after being dropped, but sometimes fail to go off on impact. If they fail to explode on impact, they can detonate when vibrations caused by movement or contact close the circuit. Under the tutelage of Sergeant James, he defuzes a relatively straightforward type 15 fuzed bomb, but is dismayed to learn that the Germans have deployed an even deadlier fuze, the type 17, that is rigged with a clockwork long-delay detonator activated by the bomb's impact. (fonte: Wikipedia)

The entire series of this World War 2 TV drama. It is the autumn of 1940. and the great blitz has taken London by surprise; hundreds of civilians have been killed and thousands more are made homeless. Brian Ash (Anthony Andrews) a young Royal Engineer Officer, finds himself posted to a Bomb Disposal Company hastily assembled to combat a new and terrible menace - the hundreds of unexploded bombs, which are coming close to paralysing the whole city. Episodes are: 'Dead Man's Shoes', 'Unsung Heroes', 'Just Like a Woman', 'Cast Iron Killer', 'The Silver Lining', 'The Quiet Weekend', 'Digging Out', 'Bad Company', '17 Seconds to Glory', 'Butterfly Winter', 'Dead Letter', 'The Pier' and finally 'With Love From Adolf'. Also included is 'Danger UXB - The True Story' a recently rediscovered 1941 training film designed to inform the British public about the dangers of unexploded bombs. Featuring actual documentary footage from the Blitz, the film shows how to identify UXBs and details what precautions need to be taken upon discovery. (fonte: amazon)

Mostly very enjoyable. A bit confusing at points because of the names and plot.

Evil plant monster from outer space.

I've got no complaints, but it's nothing special.

Concept: C
Story: C
Characters: C
Dialog: B
Pacing: B
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: C
Acting: C
Music: B

Enjoyment: C plus

GPA: 2.3/4

The Loch Ness monster is a cyborg controlled by aliens.

An inexplicable throw-back to the worst of the Pertwee era. I'd think it was meant as a parody, but it's not funny (with the exception of a couple good Fourth Doctor Dialog Moments).

Concept: C
Story: D
Characters: C
Dialog: B
Pacing: C
Cinematography: D
Special effects/design: C
Acting: B
Music: C

Enjoyment: C minus

GPA: 2.0/4