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Pegasus (1969)

Pegasus poster
Genre
drama television series
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
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How it feels

Two British naval officers try to stop a plot that uses hot air balloons to attack a naval base during the Napoleonic era. It is a sequel to an earlier series about submarine warfare.

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What happens

Pegasus is a British period television drama series which aired in four parts on BBC 1 in 1969. It is a sequel of the 1968 series Triton which focused on two British naval officers battling a Napoleonic plot to invade Britain with the aid of submarines. In the sequel the two officers return to try and foil a ploy to use hot air balloons to bombard the naval base at Portsmouth at the time of Trafalgar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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