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This Yorkshire Television adventure series was set in 19th century Yorkshire and starred Murray Dale as the young Dominic Bulman.
It’s 1820 and Captain Charles Bulman (Richard Todd) is shipwrecked off the North African coast and captured by slavers. His wife, Emma (Hildegarde Neil), and 12-year-old son, Dominic (and his pet monkey, “Bathurst”), believe he has perished and are left destitute which forces them to sell their comfortable house in Greenwich in London and move to Yorkshire.
While Captain Bulman is having adventures in Africa and fighting his way back home, Dominic and his mother are befriended by drunken old salt William Woodcock (Brian Blessed), who feels he owes the Bulman family a favour, having served under Captain Bulman at the Battle of Trafalgar and remembering him with gratitude and affection.
They go into partnership, running a boarding house, while Lady Bulman strives to clear her husband’s name, besmirched with the accusation of having sunk his ship, the Bright Star, for the insurance money.
The series returned in 1976 as simply Dominic. The new series saw Dominic out to avenge the murder of his parents, who were killed when their carriage was ambushed by two ruffians on the moors in the opening episode.
The clue to the murder was a Hunter – a gold watch found at the crime scene. On the back was an engraving of the family crest of Lord Stainton (Thorley Walters), a scientist with an interest in rocketry, and this starts a trail that leads ‘Nick into foul company among smugglers.
Murray Dale is the son of famous stage, film and television actor Jim Dale.
Dominic Bulman
Murray Dale Emma Bulman
Hildegarde Neil Capt. Charles Bulman
Richard Todd William Woodcock
Brian Blessed Bessie Dearlove
Ruth Kettlewell Jackson
Julian Glover Captain Beever
John Hallam Bartholomew Finn
Gordon Gostelow Lucy
Stacey Tendeter Wardley
Edwin Richfield Jenkins
Jerold Wells Sparrow
Trevor Smith Sarah
Wendy Williams Lady Harriet
Louise Jameson Lord Stainton
Thorley Walters Jimmy Bells
Eric Francis
Episodes
Lost at Sea | Lodgings to Let | The Man Who Loved Children | Captain Darkness | Fair Game | Medicine Man | The Man with the Painted Face | A Frog He Would a Wooing Go | Sermons and Snuff | Friends of the Family | Ghost in Greenwich | Lady Bulman Regrets | Charles and Emma
Hangman’s Hollow | The Hunter | Miss Sarah | The Crypt | The Brotherhood | Lucy and Harriet | Twenty Years Ago | Beyond Gravity
Dominic Bulman
William Woodcock
