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Episode 10 (series 7)
S7 Ep10
Series 7
Episode 10
Airdate November 6, 1994
Audience Unknown
Writer Roger Marshall
Director John Reardon
Producer Paul Knight
Previous episode Episode 9 (series 7)
Next episode Episode 11 (series 7)

Episode 10 (series 7) is the tenth episode of the seventh season of London's Burning. It was first broadcast on November 6, 1994.

Episode Summary

Road workers discover an unexploded wartime bomb near the fire station while Nick's crew is just dealing with a little fire in a waste bin. Sally, on standby in the pump, receives a call about the bomb. Blue Watch have to evacuate the street around the fire station and are refused entry while a special bomb disposal team arrives to defuse the bomb and takes residence at Blackwall. Meanwhile, a careless car driver knocks over a school girl and furious mothers stage a protest on the street against dangerous drivers.

Blue Watch have to watch on while the bomb disposal team set about defusing the device. One crew goes to have lunch at another fire station where the food is miserable and the firemen obnoxious. The other crew is just about to have lunch at a fast food joint, when they are called to a block of flats where a man is trapped in a lift. Hallam's crew head up in the other lift and they get stuck as well but are unable to reach Recall in the appliance because he has snuck off to get some food. The others have to come and get them all out of the lifts.

While Blackwall are on standby at another station, they are called to a burning flat, caused when a young woman started burning some letters and fell asleep following a row with her ex-lover. Hallam's crew can't proceed, because they are stuck in the street where the mothers are protesting against car drivers, so Nick's crew has to tackle the blaze on their own. He risks his life and Pearce rescues him. However, the woman is dead. An increasingly irate Hallam gets into a furious argument with the leader of the protest, to no avail. He then accuses her of effectively killing the young woman who died at the last fire and has to be pulled away by Bayleaf. At last the bomb has been defused and they can all return to Blackwall. While Pearce and Sicknote muse about the bomb and the damage it could have done, Billy scares them by throwing an empty metal dustbin onto the ground. When they enter the station, they realize that the bomb disposal men drank all their tea and have eaten all their food, but before they can get too excited the bells goes down again.

Cast

  • Pat - Melissa Wilks
  • Eastman - John Blakey
  • Mrs Clipston - Sally Nesbitt
  • Helen - Carol Holt
  • Sue - Meg Dixon
  • Captain Turner - Max Digby
  • Dotty - Joy Graham
  • Micky Wright - Cliff Parisi
  • Clive - Alan Hunter
  • Joan - Lynda Steadman
  • Major Russell - James Smith
  • Mary - Pamela Duncan
  • Elderly man - Len Howe
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