I watched this when it was first aired in 1979, then again in the late 1980s and recently I recorded it from Talking Pictures and watched it again over the past 10 days.
This drama is full of suspense and really interesting and absorbing when focused on the actual bomb deactivation situations when using/testing the very primitive equipment that was invented as they went along.
It did dip in the middle with sub stories about personal situations, and the affair between doe eyed Brian and gushing Susan was a bit OTT.
Maurice Roëves as Sergeant James was quite outstandingly believable. George Innes played a really irritating character, but he played it well. The other side of the cheeky cockney spiv (Walker in Dad's Army).
Iain Cuthbertson was as good as ever.
Really, people of this generation should watch this and get some feel for the sacrifices that were made to ensure their future. Some of it is quite horrific. It is quite unimaginable to put oneself in their shoes.
This drama is full of suspense and really interesting and absorbing when focused on the actual bomb deactivation situations when using/testing the very primitive equipment that was invented as they went along.
It did dip in the middle with sub stories about personal situations, and the affair between doe eyed Brian and gushing Susan was a bit OTT.
Maurice Roëves as Sergeant James was quite outstandingly believable. George Innes played a really irritating character, but he played it well. The other side of the cheeky cockney spiv (Walker in Dad's Army).
Iain Cuthbertson was as good as ever.
Really, people of this generation should watch this and get some feel for the sacrifices that were made to ensure their future. Some of it is quite horrific. It is quite unimaginable to put oneself in their shoes.