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Writer:
Peter Yeldham (writer)
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Release Date:
18 August 2000 (Hungary) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama more
Plot:
Based on Captain James Cook's three voyages. It was on his first voyage, in 1770 (while in the South Pacific region to observe the transit of Venus)... more
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A wonderful series more (8 total)

Cast

  (Series Credited cast)
Keith Michell ... Capt. James Cook
John Gregg ... Joseph Banks
Erich Hallhuber ... Lt. John Gore
Jacques Penot ... Cmdr. Charles Clarke
Barry Quin ... Lt. Zachariah Hicks
Steven Grives ... Sgt. Samuel Gibson
Carol Drinkwater ... Mrs. Elizabeth Cook
Fernando Rey ... Adm. Sir Edward Hawke
Xabier Elorriaga ... Lord Johnny Sandwich
Udo Vioff ... Johann Reinhold Forster
Noel Trevarthen ... Adm. Sir Hugh Palliser
David Whitney ... William Bligh
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Allen ... Lt. Furneaux
Titaine Bourne ... Parita
Peter Carroll ... Dr. Daniel Solander
Matthew Crosby ... Lt. King
John Doyle ... Lt. Pickersgill
Les Foxcroft ... Old Salt
Benjamin Franklin ... Alexander Dalrymple
Tony Harvey ... Lt. Phillips
Jim Holt ... Lt. John Williamson
Louise Kimitete ... Queen Oberea

Tony Martin ... Wilkinson
Rhys McConnochie ... King George III
Emil Minty ... Young Nick
Geoff Morrell ... Surgeon William Perry
Robert Padwick ... Lt. Cooper

John Polson ... George Forster
Maurice Risch ... Surgeon Monkhouse
J. Tuhetini Tunipua ... Tupaia
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Capitán Cook (Spain)
Capitaine James Cook (France)
Wind und Sterne (West Germany)
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Runtime:
480 min (4 episodes)
Country:
Australia | West Germany | France | Spain
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
Australia:PG
Filming Locations:
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia more
Company:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) more

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A wonderful series, 15 April 2004
Author: hyperbolelad from london

I recorded this series when it was shown here in the UK in August 1990. I'm no expert on Captain Cook, but I just love this series which is visualy just soooo beautiful and to me realy evokes the wonder these explorers must have felt at discovering amazing new lands and peoples.

Having worked in London's British museum of natural history and having seen many of the original specimens brought back from Cook's voyages watching this series has certainly put flesh on the bones of of this truly great man who it is also very nice to know was a good natured humane fair commander of men as well.



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