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    Triton

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    1 9 6 1 (UK)
    4 x 30 minute episodes

    This four-part adventure series from the BBC was set in 1800 where two young British naval officers – Captain Belwether (William Russell) and Lieutenant Lamb (Francis Matthews) – are sent to gather intelligence about French plans for Napoleon’s planned invasion of England.

    It transpires that the French have a secret weapon – invented by American inventor Robert Fulton (Reed De Rouen) – which could blow up ships from a distance without using gunfire. It’s the first working design for a submarine.

    Scriptwriter and producer Rex Tucker came across the story while carrying out research for his play, Victory, which was commissioned for the Nelson bicentenary, and wrote Triton around the information.

    The story was remade by the BBC in 1968 in another four-part serial of the same title with Jonathan Adams as Captain Belwether, Paul Grist as Lieutenant Lamb and Robert Cawdron as Robert Fulton

    Adams and Grist reprised their roles in a four-part series in 1969 called Pegasus – in which Belwether and Lamb uncovered a plot by Napoleon’s forces to bomb Portsmouth from balloons.

    Captain Julius Belwether
    William Russell
    Lieutenant Simon Lamb
    Francis Matthews
    Interpreter
    Michael Anthony
    Robert Fulton
    Reed De Rouen
    Lord Nelson
    Robert James
    French Captain
    Jacques Cey
    Lieutenant Singleton
    Peter Mayock
    Clotilde
    Kitty Atwood
    Madame Victor
    Selma Vaz Dias
    Captain of Hebe
    Garard Green
    Vice-Admiral Graeme
    John Lawrence
    Earl St. Vincent
    Ewan MacDuff
    Sir Home Popham
    Anthony Sharp
    Lieutenant of Hebe
    Leon Shepperdson

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