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
The Crimson Pirate as they are approaching. In the background can be seen a modern luxury liner cruise ship, one that is quite out of place in the 18th century. The Terry Gilliam short, "The Crimson Permanent Assurance," draws its name from this film. According to The Radio Times, the Disneyland ride "Pirates of the Caribbean" was inspired by "The Crimson Pirate". In the 1970s Lancaster attempted to make a sequel. He hired George MacDonald Fraser and later Jon Cleary to write scripts, but no film resulted from their efforts. The Crimson Pirate The Crimson Pirate is a 1952 American Technicolor tongue-in-cheek comedy-adventure