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''Captain Pugwash'' is a fictional pirate in a series of British children's comic strips and books created by John Ryan. The character's adventures were adapted into a TV series, using cardboard cut-outs filmed in live-action (the first series was performed and broadcast live), also called ''Captain Pugwash'', first shown on the BBC in 1957, a later colour series, first shown in 1974–75, and a traditional animation series, ''The Adventures of Captain Pugwash'', first aired in 1998. The eponymous hero – Captain Horatio Pugwash – sails the high seas in his ship called the ''Black Pig'', ably assisted by cabin boy Tom, pirates Willy and Barnabas, and Master Mate. His mortal enemy is Cut-Throat Jake, captain of the ''Flying Dustman''. ==History== 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 on painted backgrounds and moved with levers. The characters' voices were provided by Peter Hawkins. The last series of Pugwash shorts by Ryan was produced in 1975. Although there are many anachronisms in the series, the book ''The Battle of Bunkum Bay'' gives some useful clues as to the era in which the stories are set. In this book, the King of Great Britain strongly resembles George I and the King of France resembles Louis XIV, suggesting that this story took place in 1714–15. However, one of the few direct references to a date is in the original TV series is the episode 'Pirate of the Year' where Pugwash enters the "Pirate of the Year contest 1775" A number of spin-off books were written by John Ryan, who in the 1980s drew three new Pugwash comic-strip storybooks: ''The Secret of the San Fiasco'', ''The Battle of Bunkum Bay'' and ''The Quest for the Golden Handshake''. A related book by John Ryan was ''Admiral Fatso Fitzpugwash'', in which it is revealed that Pugwash had a medieval ancestor who was First Sea Lord, but who was terrified of water. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Captain Pugwash」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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