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The Machine Gunners

Name: The Machine Gunners
Genre: Family, War & Politics
Cast: Shaun Taylor, Debbie Breen, Tony Saint, Alastair Craig, Harry Herring

1983 · 1 season, 6 episodes · 25m episodes · Family, War & Politics · BBC One · United Kingdom · Rated PG (GB)

During the Second World War, a group of youth in the Northeast England town of Garmouth regularly suffer from bomb attacks by the German forces. One of the children raids a crashed German aircraft and takes a fully operational machine gun, intending to set up their own fortress. Playing with it causes a German plane to crash-land; the kids befriend the pilot, who is unaware that they had caused him to crash.

Created by

William Corlett

Based on the novel by

Robert Westall

Starring

Shaun Taylor, Debbie Breen, Tony Saint, Alastair Craig, Harry Herring, Les Wilde

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