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|url=https://pirates.theworduk.org/animated-pirates/
|title=Animated Pirates - The Word
|access-date=2023-08-23}}</ref> made using “captions”"captions". This was a form of [[cutout animation]] that involved levers attached to the back of characters.
 
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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In a 2002 issue of ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', Pugwash and Tom the Cabin Boy attended The Pirates’ Conference, alongside Captain Clegg of ''[[Doctor Syn]]'', [[Long John Silver]] and [[Captain Hook]].
 
Ed Hartwell’s 2005 short film ''Time Looters'' was made using a similar “caption”"caption" style of cutouts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.edhartwell.co.uk/films.html
|title=Film - Ed Hartwell|access-date=2023-08-18}}</ref> All the voices were provided by Joe Grossi, in a similar way to [[Peter Hawkins]].
 
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|title=Isabel Ryan at London Animation Club part 10
|website=[[YouTube]]
|access-date=2023-08-18}}</ref> Waves of merchandise were first produced with the 1974 series, including badges, T-shirts,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/789749390151856128|title=BBC Archive (22nd October 2016) "#Onthisday 1957: Captain Pugwash, created by John Ryan, was first broadcast. Blue Peter looked at the success of the show back in 1984" - Twitter |access-date=18 August 2023}}</ref> and jigsaw puzzles. In 1981, [[Corgi Toys]] produced a model of the ''Black Pig'', complete with stand-up figures of Pugwash and Tom the Cabin Boy. John himself remarked that the franchise did not sell well in the [[United States]] due to the titular character being “too"too innocuous”innocuous".<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kingston-whig-standard-captain-pugwa/118490292/
|title=Pugwash the pirate is a coward at heart - The Kingston Whig-Standard