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
Astro Boy (2003 TV series) Bertschy of Anime News Network, receiving a grade of A+ in every category and comments of, "It's perfect." Anthony Brzenican of USA Today criticized the series for not having the same optimistic tone of the color 1980s version of the series and eliminating several or changing the personalities of several major characters. The show did not meet with commercial success during its run on Kids WB! and on Cartoon Network's Toonami block, a fact that is hinted at during the review for the tie-in game "" with comments such as, "Astro Boy [didn't receive any] love here in the States".