Buccaneer (1980)

Directed by

Pamela Salem, Bryan Marshall

Genre

action & adventure, drama

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A television series about an air freight business in the late 1970s. The story follows characters who run the company and face challenges including political turmoil in Africa.

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What happens

Buccaneer is a television series, made by the BBC from 1979 to 1980. Created by experienced television writer N. J. (Norman) 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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