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Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: Wowbagger on 14 July, 2023, 11:39:18 pm

Title: Captain Pugwash innocent all along
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 July, 2023, 11:39:18 pm

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/captain-pugwash-creator-traumatised-lies-9466439

So there we have it. All that smut and innuendo was totally unwarranted.

Title: Re: Captain Pugwash innocent all along
Post by: bobb on 18 July, 2023, 10:43:58 pm

And you've only just found that out? It was all cleared up as nonsense about 30 years ago!!!

Title: Re: Captain Pugwash innocent all along
Post by: rogerzilla on 19 July, 2023, 02:57:34 pm

I remember reading the original article in The Sun (we only read shite tabloids and music papers when we were students) although I think it was the Grauniad, with its usual legendary accuracy, that started it and was the main target of the defamation case.

IIRC the actual name of the cabin boy is either Tom or Colin depending on whether it's the TV series or the book spin-offs.

Title: Re: Captain Pugwash innocent all along
Post by: citoyen on 28 July, 2023, 10:14:19 am

Mad. The Guardian libel case passed me by. Crazy that they would have actually published that story when it's so easily verified.

Quote from: bobb on 18 July, 2023, 10:43:58 pm

And you've only just found that out? It was all cleared up as nonsense about 30 years ago!!!

Some of us knew it was nonsense from the very first time we heard it. I once got into a very heated argument with a friend because I insisted that he was wrong and the cabin boy was actually called Tom but he wasn't having it.  ::-)

Title: Re: Captain Pugwash innocent all along
Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 July, 2023, 12:32:59 pm

IIRC Mary Ann “George Eliot” Evans was somewhat scathing about Coventry, considering it to be a bit behind the times :)