FROM THE SKETCH ARCHIVE
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Captain Pugwash
Played by David Mitchell
Captain Pugwash, the blustering pirate captain of the Black Pig in John Ryan's long-running British children's cartoon series, as portrayed in comedy sketches. In That Mitchell and Webb Look he appears as a flat cardboard-faced figure,…
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Captain Pugwash, the blustering pirate captain of the Black Pig in John Ryan's long-running British children's cartoon series, as portrayed in comedy sketches. In That Mitchell and Webb Look he appears as a flat cardboard-faced figure, worn by David Mitchell as an actor who once played the part.
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