4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 800

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #800 Universal
Grade: 9.6
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0911022015
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 11/5/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

The Buccaneers. 5/57. Robert Shaw photo Cover. Story back.

Tied with one other for the best of five copies graded to date. (4/12).

Interesting info:

The Buccaneers (TV series)


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Buccaneers was a 1956 Sapphire Films television drama series for ITC Entertainment, networked by CBS in the US and shown on ATV and selected ITV companies in the UK.

Starring Robert Shaw as Dan Tempest, the series, aimed at children, followed the adventures of Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they made their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.

The series ran for 39 half-hour monochrome episodes and was produced by Hannah Weinstein and Sidney Cole for Sapphire Films Limited. Director was Ralph Smart. They were made at Nettlefold Studios at Walton-on-Thames and made use of a model of the prow of a ship in a studio as well as some buildings and painted backgrounds, with some outdoor scenes added which could not be done in a studio (probably some from the nearby River Thames).

This series was one of very many swashbuckling adventure series produced during the period by or for Lew Grade's ITC.

Production notes

Sources report that Robert Shaw was unavailable for the first few episodes, but nevertheless shooting went ahead without him. In the majority of episodes, he is listed as "With" rather than "Starring" in the title sequence, for reasons that are open to speculation.

The complete series is available on R2 DVD from Network in the UK. There are a number of public-domain DVDs of the series in the North American market, as well as a complete series release.

In 1976 Robert Shaw virtually reprised his role on the big screen in Swashbuckler.
  
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