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 TV show "MythBusters" (2003–2016) tried to prove or disprove urban legends by attempting to reproduce them using the scientific method. The 1998 film "Urban Legend" featured students discussing popular urban legends while at the same time falling victim to them. Between 1992 and 1998, "The Guardian" newspaper "Weekend" section published the illustrated "Urban Myths" column by Phil Healey and Rick Glanvill, with content taken from a series of four books: "Urban Myths", "The Return Of Urban Myths", "Urban Myths Unplugged", and "Now! That's What I Call Urban Myths". The 1994 comics anthology the "Big Book of Urban Legends", written by