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which aired in four parts on BBC 1 in 1969.Baskin p.91 It is a sequel of the 1968 series ''

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'' which focused on two British naval officers battling a

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plot to invade Britain with the aid of

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s. 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

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Principal cast

* Jonathan Adams as Captain Julius Belwether *

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as Lieutenant Simon Lamb * Robert Cawdron as Robert Fulton * John Abineri as Louis Rene Lavassoir Latouche * Kynaston Reeves as Lord Barham *

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as Lord Nelson

References

Bibliography

*Ellen Baskin. ''Serials on British Television, 1950-1994''. Scolar Press, 1996. * Sue Parrill. ''Nelson's Navy in Fiction and Film: Depictions of British Sea Power in the Napoleonic Era''. McFarland, 2009.

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0499067 BBC television dramas 1969 British television series debuts 1969 British television series endings English-language television shows