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
Urban Legend (film) at least features a ghostly lead performance by "Cybill"s Alicia Witt and a final twist that's entertainingly stupid. But why do all the characters have to be such nasty little dorks? Oh, right, otherwise we'd care about them." Kim Newman of the British publication "Sight & Sound" wrote: ""Urban Legend" manages somehow to be rather endearing, from Natasha Gregson Wagner's opening bit (what must now, after "Scream", be called 'the Drew Barrymore position') to the hokey shaggy-dog punchline." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C" on an A+ to F scale. "Urban Legend" was released