Buccaneer

TV series
1980
1 season
BBC One
Action & Adventure
Drama

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Buccaneer is a short-lived television series, made by the BBC in 1979–80, and broadcast over 13 weeks in April–July 1980. The series, about a developing air freight business, starred Bryan Marshall, Pamela Salem and Clifford Rose, and was produced by Gerard Glaister. The aircraft that "starred" in the series was a Bristol Britannia of Redcoat Air Cargo, registration G-BRAC, which wore the markings of "Redair", the name of the fictional airline in the series. Only one series was produced due to the Bristol Britannia G-BRAC crash near Boston, Mass., on 16 February 1980, shortly after the completion of filming. Of the eight passengers, seven were killed, and only one survived, albeit seriously injured.

About the show

Buccaneer is a British thirteen-part television series produced by the BBC from 1979 to 1980. Created by experienced television writer NJ Crisp, it was broadcast over 13 weeks from April to July 1980.

Buccaneer, dealing with a developing air freight business, starred Bryan Marshall, Mark Jones, Pamela Salem and Clifford Rose, and was produced by Gerard Glaister. John Brason, who had previously worked with Glaister on Secret Army, served as script editor.

The first episode of Buccaneer concerned people leaving the fictional country of Ximbali. This presaged real-life events when people fled from the former Rhodesia, which had been renamed Zimbabwe.

Buccaneer was the first BBC drama series to be broadcast with Ceefax subtitles for the hearing impaired.

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