Captain Pugwash is a persistent urban legend, repeated by the now defunct UK newspaper the "Sunday Correspondent", that ascribes sexually suggestive names – such as Master Bates, Seaman Staines, and Roger (meaning "have sex with") the Cabin Boy – to "Captain Pugwash"'s characters, and indicating that the captain's name was a slang Australian term for oral sex. The origin of this myth is likely due to student rag mags from the 1970s. John Ryan successfully sued both the "Sunday Correspondent" and "The Guardian" newspapers in 1991 for printing this legend as fact. In May 2017, a live-action film adaptation was announced, directed
Escape (1950 TV series) Tommy Rettig, and Brian Keith. The announcers were Jack McCoy and Elliott Lewis. Escape (1950 TV series) Escape was a 30-minute live American dramatic anthology television series produced and directed for CBS by Wyllis Cooper. Narrated by William Conrad, the series was the television counterpart to a successful CBS Radio series of the same name (1947–54). There were a total of thirteen episodes airing on CBS from January 5, 1950 to March 30, 1950. According to "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present", the show's stories "depicted people attempting to deal with danger, the supernatural,