Classic Children's Television - Captain Pugwash

UK- BBC 1 - 1957 - 1966 and 1974 - 1975 - ITV 1998

The maritime adventures of a blustery pirate and his crew.

Animated by John Ryan in the most basic fashion, with crudely drawn characters making the simplest of movements against a static background, Captain Pugwash was a remarkably cheap series to produce. All the same, it became a potential favourite and a great filler programme for the BBC. First appearing in 1957 and updated in colour in the 1970s, it relates tales of pirate Captain Horatio Pugwash, podgy skipper of the Black Pig. His hapless crew are work-shy and rather dense, and include able seamen Barnabas and Willy, and a loyal cabin boy named Tom. Most of the time they seek to avoid the clutches of the barbarous Cut Throat Jake, a black-bearded pirate of the worst order, and the five minute episodes run in serial form, each ending with a cliffhanger finish.

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