Captain Pugwash 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". Peter Hawkins did not provide the voices, HIT Entertainment instead employing character actor James Saxon. A DVD containing 'All 30 heroic high sea adventures from the second-generation colour 1974–1975 series (156 minutes running time) was given away with the "Sunday Times" on 20 January 2008. The pompous but likeable captain of the "Black Pig". Although he boasts of being the "bravest buccaneer", he is actually quite cowardly and stupid. His greed often gets
Captain Pugwash brainwave and has been the crew's saviour (admittedly sometimes more by luck than by design). "Just you wait till we get back to Wigan – we won't half have a 'tail' to tell!" It might be argued that without Tom, Pugwash would have been sunk long ago. He 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. Although Pugwash would never admit it, Tom's ability to think up schemes is probably the only thing that prevents him from being a total failure as