Triton (1968 TV series)

Triton
Genre	Historical
Written by	Rex Tucker
Directed by	Michael Ferguson
Starring	Jonathan Adams Paul Grist Robert Cawdron
Composer	Dudley Simpson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	4
Production
Producer	John McRae
Running time	25 minutes
Production company	BBC
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	30 June (1968-06-30) – 21 July 1968 (1968-07-21)
Related
Triton Pegasus

Triton is a British period television drama series which aired in four parts on BBC 1 in 1968. ^[1] It is a remake of the 1961 BBC series of the same title, about two undercover Royal Navy officers attempting to discover the secret weapon with which Napoleon plans to invade England. The weapon turns out to be an early submarine designed by the American inventor Robert Fulton. The series was followed by a sequel, Pegasus, in 1969.

A copy of the series exists in the archives of the British Film Institute. ^[2]

Cast

• Jonathan Adams as Captain Julius Belwether
• Paul Grist as Lieutenant Simon Lamb
• Robert Cawdron as Robert Fulton
• Alan Downer as Interpreter
• Maurice Browning as Marquis de St. Cloud
• Moris Farhi as French Captain
• Ric Felgate as Lieutenant Singleton
• Terry Scully as Horatio Nelson
• Hamilton Dyce as John Jervis
• Tony Boyd as Napoleon Bonaparte
• Kathleen Helme as Madame Victor

References

1. Baskin p.55
2. Parrill p.302-3

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

• Triton at IMDb