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- BFI identifier503960
- Date1996 (Production)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisEight programmes from a unit of the school TV series, which focuses on writing skills. Captain Crimson is the fearless hero of a space adventure featured in a weekly comic strip. When his creator gets writer's block, the Captain and his crew are abandoned in hyperspace. As the writer's deadline looms, it is left up to 10 year-old Thomas and his friend Amy to write the weekly strip. Aims to improve pupil's writing through stimulating fictonal writing, extending their knowledge of grammar, spelling and punctuation, and enriching their vocabulary. The programmes are: Escape from the black of beyond; Guzzle trouble; Banana drama!; A Giant celebration; It'll all come out in the wash; Take the bull by the horns; Operation Recovery; Black to the future. (Synopsis)
- Work historyvideo release of 8-part BBC School's series first TX 14/4- 13/6/1997
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Title
Captain Crimson (Original)
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Series Work - 773290
United Kingdom - TV - Fiction
- Captain Crimson
Work - 503960 - 1996 (Production)
United Kingdom - Video - Fiction
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