The Machine Gunners

Overview

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

Network

• BBC One

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• Shaun Taylor

  Chas McGill

  6 eps

• Debbie Breen

  Audrey Parton

  6 eps

• Tony Saint

  Cem Jones

  6 eps

• Alastair Craig

  Nicky Nichol

  6 eps

• Harry Herring

  Stan Liddell

Themes

• world war ii
• northern england
• children gang
• based on children's book
• 1940s
• children in wartime

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