The Buccaneers (1956 TV series)

*The Buccaneers*
The Buccaneers
Genre	Swashbuckler
Starring	Robert Shaw; Paul Hansard; Brian Rawlinson; Edwin Richfield
Theme music composer	Edwin Astley
Composers	Edwin Astley; Albert Elms; Ken V. Jones
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	39
Production
Executive producer	Hannah Weinstein
Producers	Sidney Cole; Ralph Smart; C. M. Pennington-Richards
Production locations	Falmouth, Cornwall, England
Running time	25 minutes
Production companies	Sapphire Films; ITC Productions
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	19 September 1956 –; 12 June 1957
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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.

^ 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.

[Woolery-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.

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