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|title=''Trumpton Riots'' - Pugwash, Windy and Barney McGrew|website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref> It ran for the first nineteen issues of ''Eagle'', but was dropped due to being considered too childish, and John replaced it with ''[[Harris Tweed (comic strip)|Harris Tweed]]''.<ref>{{cite web
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The first ''Captain Pugwash'' [[Picture book|picture book]], subtitled ''A Pirate Story'' and featuring Tom’s debut, was rejected by twelve publishers until [[The Bodley Head]] picked it up in 1957. The book became successful, and was translated around the world.<ref>{{cite web
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All the voices were provided by [[Peter Hawkins]], who had to be hidden behind a monitor due to his facial expressions made while recording being too distracting for the animators.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Captions, Animations and Captain Pugwash|publisher= A Tech-Ops History|url=http://tech-ops.co.uk/next/captions-animations-and-captain-pugwash/|access-date=23 August 2023}}</ref> What this did mean was that he could write notes in his script about incidental characters and be reminded of them as they appeared onscreen.<ref>{{cite web
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|title=''Six Fifty-Five Special'' - Puppets|website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref> Further short films would be produced and broadcast until 1966, and in 1960 a popular and regularly released [[Radio Times]] strip was launched to promote the series, running until 1965.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Radio Times Strip|publisher=
In 1997, John Ryan licensed the franchise to John Cary Films,<ref name= "Word" /> followed by [[Gullane Entertainment|The Britt Allcroft Company]] purchasing the rights to the character, with the intensions of producing a revival series.<ref>{{Cite news|date=26 June 1997|title=Pugwash to sail again|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/pugwash-to-sail-again-1.85551|url-status=live|access-date=5 April 2021}}</ref> The new series of 26 episodes, animated traditionally, aired in 1998.
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