So farewell Captain Pugwash

[wafflycat]

The Jolly Roger is at half-mast.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8166946.stm

 

[Fnaar]

...cue the "Roger the Cabin Boy" (mass) debate

Shame... I have happy memories of Pugwash and telly from those days generally.

 

[Hover Fly]

"Roger the ship's boy" was in "Swallows and Amazons".
"Tom" was the cabin boy in "Captain Pugwash".
End of debate.

 

[Yellow Fang]

There was a Seaman Staines though. I'm sure of that.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I suspect some Stalinist erasing of history. I definitely remember a Seaman Staines. I wondered why one of the pirates was a master and the other was a seaman.

 

[661-Pete]

May John Ryan rest in peace. His creations will live on.

Perhaps the obituary in the Telegraph will carry sufficient authority to nail the scurrilous slur which has been repeated above:

In 1991 Ryan won libel damages from two newspapers after they had published stories that the BBC had taken Captain Pugwash off the air because of the risqué names of some of the crew aboard the Black Pig, namely Master Bates, Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy. In fact, these were names dreamed up by students in the 1970s for university “rag mags”, and which had somehow managed to pass into the realms of urban myth.

This is perhaps not the time to perpetuate a libel on a decent person who has passed on and can no longer answer for himself.

 

[661-Pete]

Hmmmmm.....

In my schooldays, Enid Blyton was suffering similar sexual innuendos concerning her characters (word was around among us kids, that Noddy was banned from public libraries for this very reason). Maybe. Maybe not. But not 'cool'. Incidentally, I never could stand Enid Blyton, but I wouldn't wish that on her.

 

[tdr1nka]

I used to love the theme tune to Sir Prancealot.
*Don't suppose anyone has it on MP3?*

With Ryan and Postgate gone it seems the world of Kid's TV is a shallower and colder place.

 

[wafflycat]

Just for you tdr1nka

 

[wafflycat]

But having said all that, it would've been pretty cool if it were true.

Here's a different one full of innuendo

 

[nigelnorris]

There was DEFINITELY a Muffin the Mule.

 

[Headgardener]

The ringtone on my mobile is Captain Pugwash's theme tune.

 

[gavintc]

Here's a different one full of innuendo

I laughed and was amazed at the same time. It just looked so real, so innocent.

 

[Arch]

I suspect some Stalinist erasing of history. I definitely remember a Seaman Staines. I wondered why one of the pirates was a master and the other was a seaman.

Because, nitwit, ships' crews have different ranks in them. You couldn't have all masters, or all seamen, any more than you could have all captains.

 

[dellzeqq]

Pugwash was getting on a bit. He's simply gone the way of Arlene Philips.