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.
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