7.2/1018 votesLoading...#1 - The Slave Ship
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1956
Three slave's escape and free a slave ship.
Director: Terry Bishop
Writer: John Cousins
- 7.1/1018 votesLoading...
#2 - Articles of War
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1956
With dwindling supplies the Spanish threaten to sink a ship bearing food and medicines unless Spanish prisoners are released.
Director: Leslie Arliss
Writer: Alan Moreland, Peggy Phillips
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#3 - The Decoy
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 5/22/1957
Attempting to avoid a pirate known as The Turk Tempest finds a dinghy adrift at sea.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards
Writer: Albert Ruben
- 6.9/1017 votesLoading...
#4 - Gunpowder Plot
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1956
Captain Tempest is refused extra gunpowder by the Admiralty.
Director: Leslie Arliss
Writer: Terence Moore
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#5 - The Surgeon of Sangre Rojo
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1956
A typhus outbreak hits New Providence.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards
Writer: Thomas A. Stockwell
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#6 - The Hand of the Hawk
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/1956
Trying to improve trade a merchantmen has a crewman murdered.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: Peter C. Hodgking
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#7 - Ghost Ship
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/13/1957
The Sultana discovers an abandoned ship bringing superstitions to the crew.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: Peter C. Hodgking
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#8 - Dan Tempest Holds an Auction
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/10/1957
No description available
Director: Peter Maxwell
Writer: Alan Moreland
- 6.8/1019 votesLoading...
#9 - Captain Dan Tempest
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1956
No description available
Director: Ralph Smart
Writer: Terence Moore
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#10 - The Wasp
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1956
A raiding party of pirates led by Blackbeard is looting the storehouse of New Providence. They leave behind one teenage lad to cover their retreat. Tempest is frustrated that raids like this can happen and wants Beamish to supply him with weapons to arm his sloop so he can go to sea and take the fight to them. Beamish sees to it and the captured boy is pressed into service as Tempest's cabin boy and they head out to sea to search for Blackbeard.
Director: Terry Bishop
Writer: Peter C. Hodgking
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#11 - Whale Gold
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1956
A crew are at sea in search of Ambergris, better known as whale gold. A substance worth 5 times its weight in gold. When a number of the crew find a deposit on an island things get difficult when they try to hide their find from the rest of the crew.
Director: Leslie Arliss
Writer: Zachary Weiss
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#12 - Before the Mast
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1956
A pirate ship is seen in the waters around New Providence, with a Spanish blockade already in place, Tempest concocts an audacious plan to not only stop the pirate but destroy his ship.
Director: Ralph Smart
Writer: Roger MacDougall
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#13 - Conquistador
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/20/1957
The Sulltana is blamed for a number of attacks but Beamish Does not believe Captain Tempest could be responsible.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: Terence Moore, Basil Dawson
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#14 - Conquest of New Providence
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/6/1957
No description available
Director: Leslie Arliss, Robert Day
Writer: Terence Moore
- 6.7/1021 votesLoading...
#15 - The Ladies
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1956
There is concern that Blackbeard may attack a ship containing female passengers.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards
Writer: Roger MacDougall
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#16 - Printer's Devil
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 6/12/1957
No description available
Director: Bernard Knowles
Writer: Terence Moore
- 6.6/1019 votesLoading...
#17 - The Raiders
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1956
No description available
Director: Ralph Smart
Writer: Terence Moore
- 6.6/1020 votesLoading...
#18 - Dan Tempest's War with Spain
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1956
Lt. Beamish, just named Governor of New Providence, prepares to welcome the commander of a Spanish galleon. His inexperience and trusting nature make him a good mark for the wily Spaniard, whose visit is not a friendly one.
Director: Leslie Arliss
Writer: Zachary Weiss
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#19 - Dan Tempest and the Amazons
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1956
No description available
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards
Writer: Zachary Weiss
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#20 - Gentleman Jack and the Lady
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/2/1957
Tempest take a prize from another privateer who vows revenge, but is Captain Gentleman Jack what he seems?
Director: Leslie Arliss
Writer: Zachary Weiss
- 6.6/1013 votesLoading...
#21 - Flip and Jenny
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 4/24/1957
No description available
Director: Peter Maxwell
Writer: Neil R. Collins
- 6.5/1017 votesLoading...
#22 - Dead Man's Rock
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/16/1957
A Spanish warship attacks the colony and takes Governor Beamish.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: Peter C. Hodgking
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#23 - Blood Will Tell
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/23/1957
A lawyer arrives searching for an apparent heir to a fortune.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: Zachary Weiss
- 6.5/1016 votesLoading...
#24 - Mother Doughty's Crew
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/27/1957
Tempest is put under pressure to capture a pirate responsible for a series of raids to stop rumours he is to blame.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards
Writer: Zachary Weiss
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#25 - Mistress Higgins' Treasure
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/8/1957
While delivering tools to a farming community a schoolmistress boards telling of hidden treasure.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards
Writer: Thomas A. Stockwell
The Best Episodes of The Buccaneers
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The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.
Genres:DramaAction & AdventureKidsFamilyCrime
Network:ITV1
Best Episodes Summary
"The Slave Ship" is the best rated episode of "The Buccaneers". It scored 7.2/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by Terry Bishop and written by John Cousins, it aired on 10/31/1956. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Articles of War".