Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate in a series of British children's comic strips and books created by John Ryan.
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22 Facts About Captain Pugwash
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Captain 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.
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Captain Pugwash was sold to various overseas TV stations, including Australia's ABC Television.
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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".
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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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Captain Pugwash has a teddy bear in his bunk and is quite mild-mannered.
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Captain Pugwash was present in the first ever Pugwash story, in which he was depicted as being constantly sleepy.
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Captain Pugwash is quite rebellious and grumpy, and is perhaps marginally more intelligent than Willy, the Mate or the Captain.
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Captain Pugwash is a gentle soul, and is against using violence.
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Captain Pugwash does have the occasional brainwave and has been the crew's saviour .
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Captain Pugwash is the most intelligent and resourceful member of the crew, the only one who can cook and the only one who can actually sail a ship.
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Captain Pugwash was portrayed with a Home Counties accent in the first television adaptation, and with an Irish accent in the 1997 series.
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When he is not scheming to bring about Captain Pugwash's downfall, he is a rather more competent pirate than his enemy, and always seems to have plenty of treasure.
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Captain Pugwash speaks with a stereotypical West Country accent, and is easily recognisable by his eye patch and enormous black beard.
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Captain Pugwash is the tallest of the crew so he often hits his head on the ceiling of the ship's lower deck.
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Captain Pugwash is one of the strongest of the crew as he is the Black Pig's carpenter.
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Captain Pugwash is deeply in love with Donna Bonanza and attends to her every need.
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Captain Pugwash is renowned for his exclamations, owing something to the style of Captain Haddock in The Adventures of Tintin:.
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Original black-and-white episodes of Captain Pugwash used a solo rendition by the accordionist Tom Edmondson, who had learned the tune from watching Jimmy Shand's band in Northumberland as a teenager.
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Production was set to begin in 2018, with the plot following Captain Pugwash travelling to Botany Bay, where he eventually finds himself at the helm of The Black Pig on a mission to rescue Tom the Cabin Boy's father, who is marooned on a volcanic island.
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On 17 December 1973, a theatre show, Captain Pugwash, written by Ryan and John Kennett, opened at the King's Road Theatre in Chelsea, London.
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Edward Philips as Captain Pugwash headed a cast of live actors playing characters including Tom and Cut-Throat Jake.
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