ADVENTURES OF LONG JOHN SILVER 1957 TV CLASSIC

ADVENTURES OF LONG JOHN SILVER 1957 TV CLASSIC

Long John Silver lived in Bristol, England, supposedly the birthplace of Edward Teach, Blackbeard. In the early 1950s Disney produced films of "Treasure Island" (1950) and "Blackbeard the Pirate"(1952), and the same actor was used to play Silver and Teach - Robert Newton. Newton then reprised his role of Long John Silver for "Long John Silver" (1954) and the TV series "The adventures of Long John Silver (1955). It was a half-hour series made for the English and American markets. Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson pirate character from his novel 'Treasure Island', and set at Porto Bello on the Spanish Main, the series featured English actor Robert Newton in the title role. Newton had previously played the same part in the 1950 Disney movie Treasure Island, which was the first total live-action motion picture made by the company.
If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons,
And buccaneers, and buried gold,
And all the old romance, retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of today:
- So be it and fall on!

CAST:
Long John Silver.......ROBERT NEWTON
Miss Purity Pinker.......CONNIE GILCHRIST
Patch.......GRANT TAYLOR
Jim Hawkins.......KIT TAYLOR

DISC ONE:
DEAD RECKONING
DEVIL'S STEW
DRAGON SLAYER
PIECES OF EIGHT
MISS PURITY'S BIRTHDAY
EXECUTION DOCK

DISC TWO:
TURNABOUT
THE EVICTION
THE NECKLACE
THE TALE OF A TOOTH
THE PINK PEARL
THE ORPHAN'S CHRISTMAS

DISC THREE:
RETURN TO TREASURE ISLAND (MOVIE)