Captain Bloody Captain Bloody Captain Bloody is an Australian musical comedy by Grahame Bond and Jim Burnett. It concerns a young gynaecologist, Eric Blood, whose closet fantasy is to be Errol Flynn. He finds out about a club, Heroes Anonymous, where people can live out their fantasies without hurting anyone, run by a man who thinks he is Winston Churchill. "Captain Bloody" opened at the Footbridge Theatre in Sydney on 1 May 1984 and ran to 23 June 1984, produced by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and Dunsinane Enterprises. It then played a short season at the Canberra Theatre from 3–7 July
Captain Blood (novel) as "Tales of the Brethren of the Main", published from December 1920 to March 1921, and reprinted in "Adventure Magazine" from January to May 1921, with a novella "Captain Blood's Dilemma", published in "Premier Magazine" in April 1921 (and "Adventure Magazine" in October 1921). The "Odyssey"-like story arc of these tales was then woven by Sabatini into a continuous narrative in novel form, published as "Captain Blood: His Odyssey" in 1922. The protagonist is the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, a fictional Irish physician who had had a wide-ranging career as a soldier and sailor (including a commission as a captain