In 2005, a Noel Coleman-narrated episode was repeated on BBC Four as part of their Animation Nation season. This series was set on the island of Portobello “somewhere in the Spanish Main”, and Pugwash was more unhappy with Tom’s heroics. Mate, Stinka and new characters Lieutenant Scratchwood and Rook, with David Rintoul as Cut-Throat Jake, Colin McFarlane as Dook and new characters the Governor of Portobello and Jonah, who replaced Barnabas, and Brian Bowles as Tom the Cabin Boy, Willy and Swine. The new series of 26 episodes, animated traditionally, aired in 1998 with James Saxon voicing Pugwash, Mr. In June 1997, The Britt Allcroft Company purchased the rights to the character, with the intensions of producing a revival series. This iteration introduced the better-known trio of Master Mate, Willy and Barnabas, who were depicted across subsequent books, although the Mate was renamed to Mr. The following year 13 more episodes, comprising a second season, were produced after the first 18, making 30 total. In 1974 a new colour series was commissioned, with Peter Hawkins reprising his roles, and wider-reaching than its sporadically produced predecessor, being broadcast four days a week, with Episode 2, Cannon Ball, being repeated for one timeslot. In 1966 the original series concluded with one three-part story (Cruise of the Flying Pig) and two two-parters (The Man in the Iron Mask and The Curse of the Pugwashes). In 1960 the show was rebranded as simply Captain Pugwash and expanded its output to at least three times per month. A popular and more regular Radio Times strip was launched to promote the series, running until 1965. Each episode of the first three series, titled The Thrilling Adventures of Captain Pugwash and Stowaway Tom, was broadcast at least once per month, with Noel Coleman narrating the first series and Howard Marion-Crawford narrating the first four episodes of Series 2, with Peter Hawkins narrating the rest. That same year, the BBC commissioned the first series of animated short films, made using “caption” cut-outs. The book became successful, and was translated around the world. The first Captain Pugwash picture book, subtitled A Pirate Story and featuring Tom’s debut, was rejected by twelve publishers until The Bodley Head picked it up in 1957. The strip was dropped due to being considered too childish, and John replaced it with Harris Tweed. Pugwash, Horatio’s wife who only appeared in these instalments in place of Tom the Cabin Boy. It ran for the first nineteen issues of Eagle, which formed an ongoing story arc and featured many unnamed crew members of the Black Pig (only the Mate/Master Mate was named) and Mrs. When John returned home, he claimed that Captain Pugwash appeared without explanation. His mortal enemy is Cut-Throat Jake, captain of the Flying Dustman.Īt John Ryan’s wedding in 1950, he was introduced by a friend to Marcus Morris, who was launching Eagle, and asked the artist to create a strip for it. The eponymous hero – Captain Horatio Pugwash – sails the high seas in his ship called the Black Pig, assisted by cabin boy Tom, pirates Willy and Barnabas, and Master Mate. Captain Pugwash, from the title sequence of the 1974–75 seriesĬaptain Pugwash is a fictional pirate who appears in a series of British children’s comic strips, books and television shows created by John Ryan.
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