Pegasus
GenreHistorical
Written byRex Tucker
Directed byMichael Ferguson
StarringJonathan Adams
Paul Grist
Robert Cawdron
ComposerDudley Simpson
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes4
Production
ProducerJohn McRae
Running time25 minutes
Production companyBBC
Original release
NetworkBBC One
Release17 November (1969-11-17) 
8 December 1969 (1969-12-08)
Related
Triton

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

References

  1. 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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