Dead Man's Shoes
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1979
Young recruit Brian Ash is shocked to learn that the 97th Tunnelling Company of the Royal Engineers is actually a bomb disposal squad.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1979
Young recruit Brian Ash is shocked to learn that the 97th Tunnelling Company of the Royal Engineers is actually a bomb disposal squad.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1979
Brian's recklessness with a bomb lodged within a burning building nearly costs him and a fellow officer their lives.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1979
After attending a bomb disposal course, Brian and Ken Machin are sent to defuse a German bomb, but their scant knowledge proves inadequate.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1979
Tragedy results when Brian and the men of 347 Section are ordered to risk their lives to test a new, unproven device on a live bomb.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1979
Brian must defuse an especially dangerous bomb designed to thwart disposal attempts; Susan asks Brian to meet her in London for a date.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1979
Susan connives to meet Brian on his weekend off, but her husband's unexpected return and her father's suspicions cut their visit short.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1979
When he is refused leave to see to his family's safety, Lance-Corporal Salt goes AWOL, but tragedy strikes before he can save them.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1979
A new commanding officer's fanatic adherence to rules and discipline causes mutinous feelings amongst the overworked men of 347 Section.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1979
Brian learns to defuse German land mines; Susan accepts Brian's marriage proposal, but at a request from Stephen's boss, changes her mind.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1979
Brian and the men of 347 Section are sent to dispose of a plague of small, lethal butterfly bombs concealed about the countryside.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1979
Brian must defuse a bomb designed to kill anyone tampering with it; Brian's hopes for a future with Susan rise when Stephen drowns himself.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1979
Susan agrees to marry Brian; Brian is seriously injured in a mine explosion, and doctors fear damage to his mind may exceed bodily harm.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1979
Despondent Brian mopes about, blaming himself for Brinckley's death until Rodgers persuades him to defuse an extremely complex UXB.