The eponymous hero – Captain Horatio Pugwash – sails the high seas in his ship called the Black Pig, assisted by cabin boy Tom, pirates Willy and Barnabas, and Master Mate. His mortal enemy is ...

BBC News reports that Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz's Nick Frost will be playing the classic pirate in a live action movie, based on the 1950s children's books and 1970s TV series. "Besides Winston ...

Ahoy there mateys! Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead star Nick Frost is going to play Captain Pugwash on the big screen. The star will play the bumbling and cowardly pirate in the live action movie based ...

The first episode of Captain Pugwash aired on 22 October 1957. The children's animation was written, illustrated and produced by John Ryan. The bumbling Captain was brought to life by Peter Hawkins, ...

Nick Frost is to play Captain Pugwash in a live-action movie based on the cult children’s character. ‘Besides Winston Churchill and Henry VIII, Captain Horatio Pugwash seems like a role I was born to ...

First published as “Captain Pugwash, the Story of a Bad Buccaneer and of the many Sticky Ends which nearly befell him” in the launch edition of the Eagle comic in 1950, the portly Captain Horatio ...

Nick Frost is to play Captain Pugwash in a live-action movie based on the cult children’s character. ‘Besides Winston Churchill and Henry VIII, Captain Horatio Pugwash seems like a role I was born to ...

John Ryan, the Scots-born creator of Captain Pugwash, the much-loved children's animation series, has died in hospital aged 88. First published as "Captain Pugwash, the Story of a Bad Buccaneer and of ...