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JACK TRACY ROOM 320
~X“H NBC TRADE NEWS June 11, 1962
PROCTER & GAMBLE TO SPONSOR ’SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, ’ NEW NBC-TV
WEEKLY DRAMATIC SERIES ABOUT GREAT ADVENTURER
"Sir Francis Drake, " a new weekly half-hour filmed dramatic series about one of the greatest adventurers in history, will start on NBC-TV Sunday, June 24 (8:30 p.m. EDT).
The series, to be shown here for the first time, was filmed in England. It will take the time period of the vacationing "Car Where Are You?" which will return for its second season on NBC-TV Sunday, Sept. 16.
"Sir Francis Drake" will be sponsored by Procter & Gamble Company through Leo Burnett Company Inc., advertising agency.
British actor Terence Morgan stars in the title role of the l6th Century adventurer who led an amazing life as a mariner, soldier, pirate, explorer, spy and as an important figure in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Drake's exploits included the rescue of Sir Walter Raleigh’s lost colony in Virginia, an attack on the Spanish fort at Saint Augustine, in what is now Florida; and the release of a Seminole Indian princess, who guided his ship around Florida to what is now Tampa. His adventures off the coast of Cuba, Mexico and South America are legendary. He also was the first Englishman to sail through the Straits of Magellan, and he discovered Cape Horn and proved that the continent of South America did not extend to the South Pole.
In bringing the fictional stories to television, research and attention to historical detail were stressed. As an example, an
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