Captain Pugwash Dies

[wazza]

RIP

Captain Pugwash, Master Bates and Seaman Stains.

Bill Oddie's voices overs will be remembered for sure.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25 ... 09,00.html

[beer monkey]

Blistering Barnicles....i didn't know Bill Oddie did the voice overs.

[Fawn]

Bill flaming Oddie? Oh man, that's just spoiled it all totally for me.

[BobHelm]

No, I did not realise the Bill Oddie connection either...

For anyone that needs a quick blast of the Captain...

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[goonersh]

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Pugwash

[beer monkey]

I just spent 35 minutes searching for Bill Oddie, can't seem to get any info on his Pugwash Era.....wazza my man, where did you get that from, sounds a bit Oddie to me..?

Thanks all.
bm

[Irish Alan]

Nothing on his IMDB profile... Methinks Wazza might be on the Kazakh vodka... Das vidaya!

[wazza]

From a programme I saw on Bill Oddie / Goodies some years ago, Maybe Parkinson ? or similar, and the Pugwash Characters names were all discussed with a tongue in cheek approach to it.

[JimboPSM]

Like many others I had until quite recently (to be honest, yesterday) fallen for the urban myth regarding the double entendres on the (alleged) names of the Pugwash characters.

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.asp

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8166946.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8167027.stm