The Machine Gunners

• 1983
• •
• Ended
• •
• PG

• Family
• War & Politics

★ 6.4 TMDB Rating · 15 votes

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

Seasons

1

Episodes

6

Episode length

~25m

First aired

Feb 23, 1983

Networks

BBC One

Original language

English

Origin

United Kingdom