Tom Brown's Schooldays (TV serial) Tom Brown's Schooldays (TV serial) Tom Brown's Schooldays is a 1971 television serial adaptation of the Thomas Hughes novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays". It was originally screened on the BBC1 Sunday afternoon slot, which often showed serialisations of classics aimed at a family audience. It made some free adaptations to Hughes's novel, creating the role of Flashman's father, and writing new sub-plots about Flashman and Arnold. It also included some scenes of bullying and corporal punishment which may have been strong stuff for family viewing. "Clean-up TV" campaigner Mary Whitehouse claimed that the programme broke the BBC's guidelines on the depiction
Tom Chandler (The Last Ship) was killed when Shaw kidnapped his children), and Tex (who gave his life in the final showdown with Shaw), resigned his commission. 16 months after leaving the Navy, Tom and his family had relocated to Greece, where he worked as a fisherman. There, he crossed paths with Giorgio Vellek (Jackson Rathbone), a Greek-American crime lord, his sister Lucia (Sibylla Deen) (whom he romances for information) and eventually reunites with the crew of the "Nathan James". Tom decided to rejoin the Navy and help resolve the Red Rust crisis. By the episode "Casus Belli", Tom had been promoted to Admiral and