Captain Pugwash cabin boy Tom, pirates Willy and Barnabas, and Master Mate. His mortal enemy is Cut-Throat Jake, captain of the "Flying Dustman". Captain Horatio Pugwash made his debut in a comic-strip format in the first issue of "The Eagle" in 1950, then appeared regularly as a strip in "Radio Times". In 1957 the BBC commissioned a series of short cartoon films produced by Gordon Murray. Ryan produced a total of 86 five-minute-long episodes for the BBC, shot in black-and-white film, but later transferring to colour. Ryan used a real-time technique of animation in which cardboard cutouts of the characters were laid
Michael Bates (actor) and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Bates served in Burma as a Major with the Brigade of Gurkhas before his discharge at the end of the Second World War. In 1953, while an ensemble member with the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, Bates appeared in "Richard III" and "All's Well That Ends Well". Bates appeared in "Hotel Paradiso", which starred Alec Guinness, in 1956 at the Winter Garden Theatre in London. On the radio, he played a variety of characters in the BBC's long-running comedy series "The Navy Lark", including Able Seaman Ginger, Lieutenant Bates, Rear Admiral Ironbridge, the Padre,