Captain Pugwash Captain Pugwash Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate in a series of British children's comic strips and books created by John Ryan. The character's adventures were adapted into a TV series, using cardboard cut-outs filmed in live-action (the first series was performed and broadcast live), also called "Captain Pugwash", first shown on the BBC in 1957, a later colour series, first shown in 1974–75, and a traditional animation series, "The Adventures of Captain Pugwash", first aired in 1998. The eponymous hero – Captain Horatio Pugwash – sails the high seas in his ship called the "Black Pig", ably assisted by
What a Cartoon! of the original shorts produced under Fred Seibert's management for "What a Cartoon!" by Hanna-Barbera. The shorts are listed in the order that they originally aired. After "What a Cartoon!" ends its run in 1997, Fred Seibert left Hanna-Barbera in 1997 to launch Frederator Studios. In 1998, Sam Register, who was Cartoon Network's vice president at the time, took over What a Cartoon!, and two years later, turned them into "The Cartoon Cartoon Show". Register would later create "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi" for Cartoon Network in 2004. Two Cartoon Cartoon shorts were produced in 1998 and one in 1999. All