Your brother-in-law runs the prison ship. Awkward family dinner or mutiny? Mutiny. Definitely mutiny.
Season 1 • Episode 12
LatestMaru has become leader of his tribe and forces Vincent, Mason, Anderson and Li to join him in fighting the rival Ngati Miru tribe. Both sides have been armed with muskets, but Maru and his men have to cross the water, making their weapons useless.
Jack Vincent, an aristocrat forced by circumstances to become a smuggler, is caught and transported on the IIMS Success to a penal colony on Norfolk Island, off the New Zealand coast. Unhappily for Vincent, the ship's captain is none other than his brother-in-law, Lt.Harry Anderson. The two men have quarreled violently in the past over Anderson's treatment of Vincent's sister, and now Anderson subjects him to particularly harsh and humiliating treatment. Vincent stages a successful mutiny, casting Anderson and those loyal to him adrift, and plans to sail to America. When the Success is shipwrecked, Vincent is one of three survivors; but Anderson also survives the storm, and vows to pursue Vincent until he sees him hanged at Execution Dock. So begins a fight for survival for Vincent and his crew, complete with hostile natives, unscrupulous sea-traders, crazed prophets and buried treasure.
Production
New Zealand landscapes doing heavy lifting as 1830s Pacific
Acting
Temuera Morrison before he was Jango Fett, stealing scenes
Costume
Tricorn hats and grubby linen: the full penal colony aesthetic
Creator
Richard Carpenter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Carpenter also created Robin of Sherwood and Catweazle, so this is basically his 'what if Robin Hood but boats and grudge' phase.
Filmed during New Zealand's tax-shelter boom that also spawned Hercules and Xena—explaining why the Pacific looks suspiciously like the same three beaches.
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