Pegasus (TV series)
| Pegasus | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 17 November – 8 December 1969 |
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.
