Captain Pugwash (?)
From the snopes:
The Guardian’s statement ran as follows:
In the Young Guardian of September 13 [1991] we stated that the Captain Pugwash cartoon series featured characters called Seaman Staines and Master Bates, and for that reason the series had never been repeated by the BBC. We accept that it is untrue that there ever were any such characters. Furthermore, the series continues to be shown on television and on video. We apologize to Mr. Ryan, the creator, writer and artist of the Captain Pugwash films and books. We have agreed to pay him damages and his legal costs.
And from the wiki:
Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate in a series of British children’s comic strips and books created by John Ryan. The character’s adventures were adapted into a British animated TV series, also called Captain Pugwash, first shown on the BBC in 1957.
I only mention because the Captain came up at dinner with some British people tonight and they were whooping it up over the subversive lewdness of this cartoon they’d grown up with, which I was fully expecting, upon returning home and YouTubing, to find had actually been called “Captain Cock Sails the Seven Come with his First Mate Labiatits”.
