1 Season
6 Episode
The Machine Gunners
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.
- Year: 1983
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Family, War & Politics
- Studio: BBC One
- Keyword: world war ii, northern england, children gang, based on children's book, 1940s, children in wartime
- Director: William Corlett
- Cast: Shaun Taylor, Debbie Breen, Tony Saint, Alastair Craig, Harry Herring, Les Wilde


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