The Buccaneers (1956)
The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.
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Episode 1 - Blackbeard
Release Date: 1956-09-19 -
Episode 2 - The Raiders
Release Date: 1956-09-26 -
Episode 3 - Captain Dan Tempest
Release Date: 1956-10-03 -
Episode 4 - Dan Tempest's War with Spain
Release Date: 1956-10-10Lt. Beamish, just named Governor of New Providence, prepares to welcome the commander of a Spanish galleon. His inexperience and trusting nature make him a good mark for the wily Spaniard, whose visit is not a friendly one.
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Episode 5 - The Wasp
Release Date: 1956-10-17A raiding party of pirates led by Blackbeard is looting the storehouse of New Providence. They leave behind one teenage lad to cover their retreat. Tempest is frustrated that raids like this can happen and wants Beamish to supply him with weapons to arm his sloop so he can go to sea and take the fight to them. Beamish sees to it and the captured boy is pressed into service as Tempest's cabin boy and they head out to sea to search for Blackbeard.
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Episode 6 - Whale Gold
Release Date: 1956-10-24A crew are at sea in search of Ambergris, better known as whale gold. A substance worth 5 times its weight in gold. When a number of the crew find a deposit on an island things get difficult when they try to hide their find from the rest of the crew.
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Episode 7 - The Slave Ship
Release Date: 1956-10-31Three slave's escape and free a slave ship.
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Episode 8 - Gunpowder Plot
Release Date: 1956-11-07Captain Tempest is refused extra gunpowder by the Admiralty.
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Episode 9 - The Ladies
Release Date: 1956-11-14There is concern that Blackbeard may attack a ship containing female passengers.
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Episode 10 - The Surgeon of Sangre Rojo
Release Date: 1956-11-21A typhus outbreak hits New Providence.
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Episode 11 - Before the Mast
Release Date: 1956-11-28A pirate ship is seen in the waters around New Providence, with a Spanish blockade already in place, Tempest concocts an audacious plan to not only stop the pirate but destroy his ship.
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Episode 12 - Dan Tempest and the Amazons
Release Date: 1956-12-05 -
Episode 13 - Articles of War
Release Date: 1956-12-12With dwindling supplies the Spanish threaten to sink a ship bearing food and medicines unless Spanish prisoners are released.
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Episode 14 - The Hand of the Hawk
Release Date: 1956-12-19Trying to improve trade a merchantmen has a crewman murdered.
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Episode 15 - Marooned
Release Date: 1956-12-26While celebrating the kings birthday pirate Clip West raids and steals some of the islands supplies.
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Episode 16 - Gentleman Jack and the Lady
Release Date: 1957-01-02Tempest take a prize from another privateer who vows revenge, but is Captain Gentleman Jack what he seems?
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Episode 17 - Mr. Beamish and the Hangman's Noose
Release Date: 1957-01-09Lt. Beamish is arrested by a new governor and Tempest tries to discover the motive behind it.
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Episode 18 - Dead Man's Rock
Release Date: 1957-01-16A Spanish warship attacks the colony and takes Governor Beamish.
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Episode 19 - Blood Will Tell
Release Date: 1957-01-23A lawyer arrives searching for an apparent heir to a fortune.
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Episode 20 - Dangerous Cargo
Release Date: 1957-01-30Tempest is asked to give passage to the governor of Barbados wife.
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Episode 21 - The Return of Calico Jack
Release Date: 1957-02-06 -
Episode 22 - Ghost Ship
Release Date: 1957-02-13The Sultana discovers an abandoned ship bringing superstitions to the crew.
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Episode 23 - Conquistador
Release Date: 1957-02-20The Sulltana is blamed for a number of attacks but Beamish Does not believe Captain Tempest could be responsible.
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Episode 24 - Mother Doughty's Crew
Release Date: 1957-02-27Tempest is put under pressure to capture a pirate responsible for a series of raids to stop rumours he is to blame.
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Episode 25 - Conquest of New Providence
Release Date: 1957-03-06 -
Episode 26 - Hurricane
Release Date: 1957-03-13In the aftermath of a hurricane rumours spread of a sunk Spanish treasure ship.
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Episode 27 - Cutlass Wedding
Release Date: 1957-03-20The women pf New Providence threaten to leave the colony in retaliation after Taffy backs out of his wedding to a colony girl.
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Episode 28 - Aztec Treasure
Release Date: 1957-03-27After a meeting in a bar Dan is asked to help a stranger named Martin on a treasure hunt.
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Episode 29 - Prize of Andalusia
Release Date: 1957-04-03The crew pick up a stranded sailor who's cargo was taken by the Spanish.
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Episode 30 - Dan Tempest Holds an Auction
Release Date: 1957-04-10 -
Episode 31 - Spy Aboard
Release Date: 1957-04-17Tempest believes there is a spy aboard after being robbed by notorious pirate Peg Leg.
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Episode 32 - Flip and Jenny
Release Date: 1957-04-24 -
Episode 33 - Indian Fighters
Release Date: 1957-05-01 -
Episode 34 - Mistress Higgins' Treasure
Release Date: 1957-05-08While delivering tools to a farming community a schoolmistress boards telling of hidden treasure.
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Episode 35 - To the Rescue
Release Date: 1957-05-15 -
Episode 36 - The Decoy
Release Date: 1957-05-22Attempting to avoid a pirate known as The Turk Tempest finds a dinghy adrift at sea.
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Episode 37 - Instruments of War
Release Date: 1957-05-29 -
Episode 38 - Pirate's Honour
Release Date: 1957-06-05 -
Episode 39 - Printer's Devil
Release Date: 1957-06-12