Sailing Adventure on PBS tonight.

[Meerkat]

Masterpiece Theatre has some nifty sailing ships and period costumes drama on this evening.

IIRC, it's called "Voyage to the Ends of the Earth." Maybe about the voyage of the Beagle?

[Karl A. Hilbert]

Thanks for the heads up!! I saw the promo.

Here's the summary from the PBS site:

A perilous early nineteenth-century ocean voyage from England to Australia is portrayed in all its excitement, chaos, and random horror in a three-part adaptation of To the Ends of the Earth, based on the trilogy by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding.

Benedict Cumberbatch (MI-5, Hawking) stars as Edmund Talbot, a young aristocrat bound for Australia. He books passage aboard an aging, leaking, converted man-of-war, commanded with icy detachment by Captain Anderson (Jared Harris, son of Richard, The Notorious Betty Paige, Igby Goes Down).

The passenger list includes a core sample of British society including Mr. Prettiman, a free thinking radical; Miss Granham, a down-on-her-luck governess; Parson Colley, a hapless cleric; Mr. Brocklebank, a dissipated nautical artist; and Zenobia, Mr. Brocklebank's sensuous "daughter."

The ship's crew forms its own community: Wheeler, a steadfast steward with a fear of drowning; 1st Lieutenant Summers, who becomes a friend and mentor to Edmund; and Lieutenants Deverel and Benét -- a matched pair of vain officers.

The outstanding cast also includes Sam Neill, Victoria Hamilton, Charles Dance, Joanna Page and Cheryl Campbell.

[Meerkat]

Thanks, Karl

[bamamick]

sooner or later. I like that sort of thing. Golding wrote 'the Lord of the Flies' did he not?

Remember when A&E had stuff like that on instead of bounty hunters and reruns of 'Law and Order'? What the heck happened there?

Enjoy the program.

Mickey Lake