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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Warship

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    This BBC drama about life on the (fictional) Royal Navy frigate HMS Hero debuted on 7 June 1973 and ran for five series until 1978.

    As the series opened, Commander NiallsΒ (Donald Burton) arrived in Gibraltar (where many spectacular sequences of the series were shot) to take command after Hero had been left for six weeks without aΒ captain or first lieutenant. Both had left in disastrous circumstances.

    The series then featured the routine and not-so-routine operations of theΒ Hero, amid much naval banter and many stiff upper lips, as the frigate visited places as far and wide as the Mediterranean and the Far East, sticking loyally to its chores which involved anything from NATO exercises to Cold War face-offs, policing fishing wars or picking up defecting spies.

    Most of the attention focused on the commissioned ranks. In the final season, journalist Zoe Carter (Prunella Ransome) was also featured.

    The series was made with the full cooperation of the Royal Navy which initially lent its star frigate F42, HMS Phoebe, to play the Hero.

    Six other warships were also used in the filming – HMS Danae, HMS Dido, HMS Diomede, HMS Hermione, HMS Juno and HMS Jupiter – all of which were repainted with the pennant number F42 for continuity.Β HMAS Derwent, a River-class destroyer escort of the Royal Australian Navy, was also used as HMS Hero for some scenes filmed in 1976 in Hong Kong and Singapore.

    Commander Mark Nialls
    Donald Burton
    Lt. Commander Beaumont
    David Savile
    Lt. Peek
    Andrew Burt
    Leading Regulator Fuller
    James Cosmo
    Lt. Commander Kiley
    John Lee
    Commander ‘Murky’ Murton
    Malcolm Terris
    MAA Heron
    Don Henderson
    MAA Burnett
    Frank Jarvis
    Lt. Last
    Norman Eshley
    Lt. Tagg
    James Leith
    Lt. Wakelin
    Graeme Eton
    Commander Alan Glenn
    Bryan Marshall
    Captain Edward Holt
    Derek Godfrey
    Lt. Commander James Napier
    Robert Morris
    Zoe Carter
    Prunella Ransome

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