TV Show Details
Air Date:April 27th, 1980
Last Air Date:July 20th, 1980
Network:BBC One
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama , Action & Adventure
Original Language:English
Production Companies:BBC
Buccaneer (1980)
TV ShowBBC One
Scripted
Audience Score
WritersN.J. Crisp
Plot
Buccaneer is a short-lived television series, made by the BBC in 1979–80, and broadcast over 13 weeks in April–July 1980. The series, about a developing air freight business, starred Bryan Marshall, Pamela Salem and Clifford Rose, and was produced by Gerard Glaister. The aircraft that "starred" in the series was a Bristol Britannia of Redcoat Air Cargo, registration G-BRAC, which wore the markings of "Redair", the name of the fictional airline in the series.
Only one series was produced due to the Bristol Britannia G-BRAC crash near Boston, Mass., on 16 February 1980, shortly after the completion of filming. Of the eight passengers, seven were killed, and only one survived, albeit seriously injured.
