A Short-Lived British Sitcom that follows the titular Captain Butler (Craig Charles) as he leads a crew of pirates in the 18th century on adventures.
The show also stars Roger Griffiths, Shaun Curry, Lewis Rae, and Sanjeev Bhaskar.
It aired six episodes in 1997.
Tropes for the series:
- Character Title: Captain Butler.
- I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Craig Charles' Red Dwarf co-star Robert Llewellyn guest stars in the episode "Kiss Me Harder" as Horatio Nelson.
- Mermaid Problem: The show parodies this. Butler asks the mermaid girl-of-his-dreams to have sex with him - so she lays a pile of eggs and leaves him to inseminate them. not exactly what he had in mind...
- One-Word Title: Kidnapped.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: Butler almost marries a mermaid until he finds out he would have to become a reverse merman if he did.
- Period Piece: Takes place during the Golden Age of the Pirates in the 18th century.
