Pegasus (TV series)
Pegasus | |
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Genre | Historical |
Written by | Rex Tucker |
Directed by | Michael Ferguson |
Starring | Jonathan Adams Paul Grist Robert Cawdron |
Composer | Dudley Simpson |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Producer | John McRae |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Production company | BBC |
Release | |
Original network | BBC One |
Original release | 17 November 8 December 1969 | –
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Triton |
Pegasus is a British period television drama series which aired in four parts on BBC 1 in 1969.[1] It is a sequel of the 1968 series Triton which focused on two British naval officers battling a Napoleonic plot to invade Britain with the aid of submarines. In the sequel the two officers return to try and foil a ploy to use hot air balloons to bombard the naval base at Portsmouth at the time of Trafalgar.
Principal cast[]
- Jonathan Adams as Captain Julius Belwether
- Paul Grist as Lieutenant Simon Lamb
- Robert Cawdron as Robert Fulton
- John Abineri as Louis Rene Lavassoir Latouche
- Kynaston Reeves as Lord Barham
- Tony Caunter as Sir William Congreve
- Terry Scully as Lord Nelson
References[]
- ^ Baskin p.91
Bibliography[]
- Ellen Baskin. Serials on British Television, 1950-1994. Scolar Press, 1996.
- Sue Parrill. Nelson's Navy in Fiction and Film: Depictions of British Sea Power in the Napoleonic Era. McFarland, 2009.
External links[]
Categories:
- BBC television dramas
- 1969 British television series debuts
- 1969 British television series endings
- English-language television shows