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The Machine Gunners
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The Machine Gunners

1983-02-23 · 25 min / episode · ★ 6.4

Family · War & Politics

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.

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Creators
William Corlett
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BBC
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United Kingdom
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Ended

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Shaun TaylorChas McGill
Debbie BreenAudrey Parton
Tony SaintCem Jones
Alastair CraigNicky Nichol
Harry HerringStan Liddell
Les WildeMr McGill
Pauline MoriartyMrs McGill
John GannieSergeant Green
Andrew CraigClogger Duncan

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