Andy McNab's Tour of Duty

Andy McNab's Tour of Duty

Andy McNab's Tour of Duty is a British documentary television series about the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War.

First broadcast in June and July 2008 on ITV4, the show is presented by ex-SAS soldier Andy McNab, and is cast as an insight into the life of the Allied soldiers in these conflicts, setting aside the already well documented politics of the conflicts and giving accounts in the soldier's own personal frames of reference.

The series combines first hand accounts and amateur film footage shot by the soldiers on the ground, with official archive footage from the Ministry of Defence, and reconstructions.

The series was first commissioned by ITV from Flashback Productions as a 6 part series of 1 hour episodes, to be broadcast exclusively as original programming for the digital channel ITV4 in a move to increased spending on the channel's output in a bid to increase the channel's audience share, and target the channel toward a demographic of 25 to 44-year-old men.

Created By

Status

Ended

Original Name

Andy McNab's Tour of Duty

First Air Date

June 10, 2008

Last Air Date

July 15, 2008

Seasons

1

Episodes

6

Language

English

Production Companies

Networks

ITV4

S01E06

Episode 6 - Courage Under Fire

Former SAS soldier Andy McNab uncovers the real stories behind British and American soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Engineers are the unsung heroes of the battlefield, often finding themselves fighting in tractors rather than tanks, and having to blow-up their way through what others go round. Engineer Donald Campbell tells how he drove his digger into the middle of a raging fire-fight, allowing troops to move on and out thanks to the bridge he had constructed.

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