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English actor Robert Newton as Long John Silver, the archetype for all subsequent screen pirates (screen cap)
form y separately published work icon The Adventures of Long John Silver series - publisher   film/TV   adventure  
Adaptation of Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson , 1883 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1954-1955... 1954-1955 The Adventures of Long John Silver
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Film Details - Treasure Island Pictures ; Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1954-1955

Producers:

Mark Evans (executive producer). Joseph Kaufman (producer).

Production Companies:

Treasure Island Productions

Editors:

Manuel del Campo, William Copland, Alex Ezard, and Richard G. Bayly

Production Designers:

William Constable

Music:

Wilbur Sampson, Sydney John Kay, and David Buttolph

Cast:

Primary cast members included Robert Newton (Captain Long John Silver), Connie Gilchrist (Purity Pinker), Kit Taylor (Jim Hawkins), Grant Taylor (Patch), Eric Reiman (Trip Fenner), John Brunskill (Old Stingley), Harry Hambleton (Big Eric), Billy Kay (Ironhand), and John Sherwood (Governor Sir Henry Strong).
Australian actors who appeared in the program included Owen Weingott (as Sean O'Flaherty, in episode 19, 'Sword of Vengeance'), Gordon Chater (in episode 3, 'The Master's Touch'), John Bonney (as Richard Thorpe, in episode 2, 'The Pink Pearl'), and Leonard Teale (in episode 24, 'Ties of Blood').

Release Dates:

Aired in the United States: 1956
Aired in the United Kingdom: 1957 (on ITV)
Aired in Australia: 1958 (on the ABC, as part of the afternoon Children's TV Club)

Location:

  • Set in Porto Bello in the Spanish Main, but produced at Pagewood Studios, Sydney

Notes:

List of episodes

1. Where Men are Men (Martin Rackin & Kay Keavney)

2. The Pink Pearl (Martin Rackin)

3. The Master's Touch (Martin Rackin & Kay Keavney)

4. The Orphan's Christmas (Martin Rackin & Kay Keavney)

5. Execution Dock (Martin Rackin & Kay Keavney)

6. Devil's Stew (Martin Rackin)

7. The Necklace (Martin Rackin)

8. The Fishwife (Martin Rackin & Kay Keavney)

9. Pieces of Eight (Martin Rackin)

10. A Flag Flies Black (Martin Rackin)

11. Temple of Evil (Martin Rackin)

12. The Crisis (Martin Rackin)

13. To Purity, A Daughter (Martin Rackin & Kay Keavney)

14. Turnabout (Martin Rackin)

15. Miss Purity's Birthday (Martin Rackin & Kay Keavney)

16. The Eviction (Martin Rackin)

17. Internal Triangle (Martin Rackin & Kay Keavney)

18. Dead Reckoning (Martin Rackin)

19. Sword of Vengeance (Martin Rackin)

20. Dragon Slayer (Martin Rackin & Kay Keavney)

21. Voodoo (Author unknown)

22. Strange Cargo (Kay Keavney)

23. The Siege (Author unknown)

24. Ties of Blood (Kay Keavney)

25. Ship o' the Dead (Martin Rackin & Kay Keavney)


Subjects:
Settings:
  • Caribbean, Americas,
  • 1700-1799
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