The Buccaneers (1956 TV series)

The Buccaneers
series title superimposed over a ship's cannon firing
GenreSwashbuckler
StarringRobert Shaw
Paul Hansard
Brian Rawlinson
Edwin Richfield
Theme music composerEdwin Astley
ComposersEdwin Astley
Albert Elms
Ken V. Jones
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes39
Production
Executive producerHannah Weinstein
ProducersSidney Cole
Ralph Smart
C. M. Pennington-Richards
Production locationsFalmouth, Cornwall, England
Running time25 minutes
Production companiesSapphire Films
ITC Productions
Original release
NetworkITV
Release19 September 1956 (1956-09-19) –
12 June 1957 (1957-06-12)
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The Buccaneers was a 1956 Sapphire Films television drama series for ITC Entertainment, broadcast by CBS in the US and shown on ATV and regional ITV companies as they came on air during the infancy of ITV in the UK.

Starring Robert Shaw as Captain Dan Tempest, the series, aimed at teenage children, followed the adventures of Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they made their way across the seven seas in Sultana.[1]

This series was one of several swashbuckling adventure series produced during this period by or for Lew Grade's ITC.

  1. ^ Woolery, George W. (1985). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 72–73. ISBN 0-8108-1651-2.