PART TWO OF CAPTAIN PUGWASH...

After his 19 strip stint in The EAGLE, CAPTAIN HORATIO

PUGWASH appeared in the RADIO TIMES in 1957.  At around

the same time, the BBC started broadcasting the first series of black

and white (live) episodes (numbering 86 or 87 in total - accounts

differ), which ran until 1966.  The first Pugwash book appeared

in 1957 and there were 21 of them right up until 1991.

There was also a 30 episode colour series broadcast between

1974 and '75, and a new series of 26 episodes first shown in 1997,

although the latter was digital and part computer animated, unlike

the 1970s classic series, which used cardboard cutouts laid over

a backdrop scene and hand-moved with levers.

Contrary to popular myth, none of the Pugwash characters

ever had 'suggestive' names, and JOHN RYAN successfully sued

The SUNDAY CORRESPONDENT and The GUARDIAN news-

papers in 1991, when they printed this tale as fact.  The book The

GOLDEN AGE Of TELEVISION was published with this mis-

information, but had a 'correction' label and apology stuck

over the offending paragraph on page 155.

So, here's ol' Captain Pugwash in 9 episodes of comic strip

glory, as printed in The Eagle in 1950 - a good few years before

he became a TV legend and a British cultural icon.  Enjoy.

  

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