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It is not entirely clear why he is the mate, as he does not appear to have any authority over the rest of the crew. He has a teddy bear in his bunk and is quite mild-mannered. Despite being a pirate, he is rarely seen committing any acts of piracy.Ī somewhat dopey character, who has a tendency to use malapropisms and to mispronounce common words. Nevertheless, he usually wins the day – either with the help of Tom the Cabin Boy or by sheer luck. Although he boasts of being the "bravest buccaneer", he is actually quite cowardly and stupid. The pompous but likeable captain of the Black Pig.
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The 1974–5 series was made available for streaming on BritBox in the United Kingdom in July 2021.Ī screen-used hand-painted Pugwash card 'puppet' from the 1950s when the series was filmed in black and white Captain Pugwash Ī DVD containing "All 30 heroic high sea adventures" from the second-generation colour 1974–75 series (156 minutes running time) was given away with the Sunday Times on 20 January 2008. In 2005 a black and white episode of Captain Pugwash was repeated on BBC4 as part of the Animation Nation season.
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Peter Hawkins did not provide the voices, HIT Entertainment instead employing a full cast with James Saxon in the title role. The rights to Captain Pugwash were then purchased by The Britt Allcroft Company, which since 1998 has issued a number of digital and part computer-animated cartoon films based on the Pugwash character, set on the island of "Montebuffo", "somewhere in the Spanish Main". There the show was screened during weekday afternoons in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Captain Pugwash was also sold to various overseas TV stations, including Australia's ABC Television. The series was revived in colour and broadcast between 16 September 1974 and 11 July 1975. The first Captain Pugwash episodes were transmitted in black and white between 19. A related book by John Ryan is Admiral Fatso Fitzpugwash, in which it is revealed that Pugwash had a medieval ancestor who was First Sea Lord but was terrified of water. However, one of the few direct references to a date in the original TV series is in the episode "Pirate of the Year", where Pugwash enters the "Pirate of the Year contest 1775".Ī number of spin-off books were written by Ryan, who in the 1980s drew three new Pugwash comic-strip storybooks: The Secret of the San Fiasco, The Battle of Bunkum Bay and The Quest for the Golden Handshake. In this book, the King of Great Britain strongly resembles George I and the King of France resembles Louis XIV, suggesting that this story took place in 1714–15. The last series of Pugwash shorts by Ryan was produced in 1975.Īlthough there are many anachronisms in the series, the book The Battle of Bunkum Bay gives some useful clues as to the era in which the stories are set. The characters' voices were provided by Peter Hawkins. Ryan used a real-time technique of animation in which cardboard cutouts of the characters were laid on painted backgrounds and moved with levers. Between 19, a further 30 were made in a new series made in colour. Between 19, Ryan produced a total of 58 five-minute-long episodes for the BBC, made in black-and-white.
In 1957 the BBC commissioned a series of short cartoon films produced by Gordon Murray. 3.8 Libel case regarding double entendresĬaptain Horatio Pugwash made his debut in a comic-strip format in the first issue of The Eagle in 1950, then appeared regularly as a strip in Radio Times.3.7 Characters added in the later series.
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