Pegasus is a British period television drama series which aired in four parts on BBC 1 in 1969. ^[1] It is a sequel of the 1968 series Triton which focused on two British naval officers battling a Napoleonic plot to invade Britain with the aid of submarines. 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 Trafalgar.

Principal cast

• Jonathan Adams as Captain Julius Belwether
• Paul Grist as Lieutenant Simon Lamb
• Robert Cawdron as Robert Fulton
• John Abineri as Louis Rene Lavassoir Latouche
• Kynaston Reeves as Lord Barham
• Tony Caunter as Sir William Congreve
• Terry Scully 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

• Pegasus at IMDb