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1 :01x01 - The Prisoner
Writer: Ian Stuart Black
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Milton Reid (Diego), Natasha Parry (Countess Inez), Warren Mitchell (Roberto), Clifford Elkin (Don Antonio)
Drake saves the life of a smokin' hot Spanish senorita when he sinks the ship on which she is sailing but then she begins formulating a plan to sink the Golden Hind.
2 :01x02 - The Lost Colony of Virginia
Writer: Larry Forrester
Director: David Greene
Guest star: Roger Delgado (Mendoza), Milton Reid (Diego), John Welsh (Governor), Barry Foster (Tom Brewster), Olive McFarland (Jenny)
Drake rushes to get supplies to an English colony in Virginia that is running out of time.
3 :01x03 - Mary, Queen of Scots
Writer: Lindsay Galloway
Director: David Greene
Guest star: Howard Greene (Sentry), Reginald Jessup (Sergeant), Grazina Frame (Bess Pierpoint), Ewan Roberts (Munro), Alfred Burke (Sir Amyas Paulet), Richard Warner (Walsingham), Harvey Hall (Thomas Phillips), Noelle Middleton (Queen Mary)
Drake foils a plot to trick Queen Elizabeth into signing the imprisoned Queen Mary's death warrant.
4 :01x04 - Doctor Dee
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Clive Donner
Guest star: Eve Lucett (Katherine), Milton Reid (Diego), Edward Cast (Guard Captain), Michael Golden (Rafe), Alex Scott (Don Pedro), Roger Delgado (Mendoza), Patrick Troughton (Gazio), Ewan Roberts (Munro), Raymond Huntley (Doctor Dee)
Drake must wait upon the Queen's alchemist to draw up a horoscope for the proper time before embarking upon a raid.
5 :01x05 - Bold Enterprise
Writer: John Roddick
Director: Anthony Bushell
Guest star: Patricia Dainton (Laura), Ewan Roberts (Munro), Michael Peake (Spanish Governor), Patrick Holt (Lord Westbrook), Richard Pearson (Sir Richard Bosanquet), Peter Diamond (Bosun), Roger Delgado (Mendoza)
A greedy merchant finances an expedition by Drake to the Spanish Indies so that he can recover stashed gold.
6 :01x06 - The English Dragon
Writer: Ian Stuart Black
Director: Clive Donner
Guest star: Eve Lucett (Lady-in-Waiting), Milton Reid (Diego), Howard Lang (Grenville), Henry Vidon (Prefect), Alex Scott (Don Pedro), Roger Delgado (Mendoza), Delphi Lawrence (Countess), David McCallum (Lord Oakshott)
When a Court favorite falls for a French countess he unwittingly puts Drake's life in jeopardy.
7 :01x07 - Boy Jack
Writer: Ian Stuart Black, Cedric Walls
Director: Clive Donner
Guest star: John Moffatt (Spanish Officer), Clive Morton (English Ambassador), Ewan Roberts (Munro), Peter Diamond (Bosun), Michael Anderson Jr. (John Harrington)
Queen Elizabeth insists that Drake take her young and inexperienced godson with him on a mission to Portugal.
8 :01x08 - The Garrison
Writer: Ian Stuart Black
Director: David Greene
Guest star: Gabriella Licudi (Lady-in-Waiting), Gordon Gardner (Lacey), Brian Cant (Corporal), Bill Dancy (Master Gunner), Peter Diamond (Bosun), Patrick Wymark (Captain Williams), Laurence Naismith (Sir Miles Burns), Michael Bell (Captain-of-the-Guard)
A member of the Queen's privy council accuses Drake of cowardice after he fails to lift a Spanish siege on a Dutch fort.
9 :01x09 - Visit to Spain
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Terry Bishop
Guest star: Howard Lang (Grenville), Nancy Beckh (Duenna), Emrys Leyshon (Major Domo), Carlos Douglas (Spanish Officer), John Hatton (Spanish Soldier), Jon Arnett (Duke of Cordova), Bryan Coleman (Sir Thomas Wentham), Zia Mohyeddin (King Phillip), Katherine Woodville (Anne Wentham), Francesca Annis (Mariella)
Drake is sent to Spain as the Queen's representative to a wedding involving Spanish royalty only to discover that the bride doesn't want to go through with the nuptuals.
10 :01x10 - The Flame Thrower
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Harry Booth
Guest star: Richard Huggett (Alonzo), Ewan Roberts (Munro), Reginald Hearne (Gomez), Roger Delgado (Mendoza), Howard Lang (Grenville), Helen Christie (Lady Amyas), William Peacock (Lambert), Neil McCallum (Sir Martin), William Lucas (Count Julio)
The inventor of a flame throwing weapon doesn't want his invention being used in warfare by the Spaniards have other ideas.
11 :01x11 - The Governor's Revenge
Writer: John Baines
Director: Clive Donner
Guest star: Milton Reid (Diego), Will Stampe (Don Gonzalo), John Bennett (Tomas), Pauline Letts (Dona Clara), Maureen Moore (Isabel), Marie Burke (Dona Inez), Roy Purcell (Governor), Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Hawkins)
Drake pulls into a Spanish port for provisions and finds that the governor there is seeking revenge against him for the death of the governor's brother.
12 :01x12 - The Slaves of Spain
Writer: Ian Stuart Black
Director: Anthony Bushell
Guest star: Milton Reid (Diego), Howard Lang (Grenville), Colin Rix (Prisoner), Dallas Cavell (Lieutenant), Marshall Jones (Garrett), Catherine Finn (Governor's Wife), Derek Sydney (Governor), Mark Eden (Agila), Nanette Newman (Yana), Michael Ripper (Almighty Jones)
Drake takes the Golden Hind to the island of Tobago looking for supplies and discovers that the Spaniards are using the natives as slave labor.
13 :01x13 - The Doughty Plot
Writer: David Greene, Margaret Irwin
Director: David Greene
Guest star: Milton Reid (Diego), Howard Lang (Grenville), Victor Maddern (Brewer), Frederick Jaeger (Vicary), Anthony Bushell (Tom Doughty)
Queen Elizabeth decides to conceal the true goals of an expedition from Drake in order to keep him from starting a war with Spain.
14 :01x14 - King of America
Writer: Ian Stuart Black
Director: David Greene
Guest star: Frederick Rawlings (Native American Chief), Walter Randall (Spanish Captain), Charles Hill (Spanish Admiral), Howard Lang (Grenville), Susan Hampshire (Celia), Andrew Keir (Flavel), Kieron Moore (Thomas Stukely)
An English sailor sets out for the New World with the intent of proclaiming himself King of America. Things don't go exactly as planned.
15 :01x15 - The Irish Pirate
Writer: David Giltinian
Director: Peter Graham Scott
Guest star: Wesley Murphy (Sergeant), Milton Reid (Diego), Howard Lang (Grenville), Patrick McAlinney (Staunton), John McCarthy (Richard Burke), Peter Halliday (Theobold Burke), Gordon Phillott (Abbott), Elspeth March (Grace O'Malley), Liam Gaffney (Lord O'Neill)
Drake goes up against a female pirate while trying to capture a rebellious Irish earl.
16 :01x16 - Beggars of the Sea
Writer: Ian Stuart Black
Director: Terry Bishop
Guest star: Gerard Heinz (Alan), Milton Reid (Diego), Howard Lang (Grenville), David Grahame (Banker), George Little (Lieutenant), Robert Rietty (Captain Riccardo), Michael Forrest (Jan), William Lucas (Count Julio)
Dutch freedom fighters enable Drake to win yet another victory over the Spaniards.
17 :01x17 - Drake on Trial
Writer: Tudor Gates
Director: John Lemont
Guest star: Terence Morgan (Graveney), Tom Bowman (Mate), David Davies (Sykes), Richard Shaw (Vanderhof), Arnold Diamond (Governor), Peter Stephens (Counselor), Patrick Troughton (Gazio), Howard Lang (Grenville), Roger Delgado (Mendoza)
The Spanish use a lookalike pirate to discredit Francis Drake and the Golden Hind.
18 :01x18 - The Bridge
Writer: Brian Clemens
Director: Terry Bishop
Guest star: Dennis Edwards (De Vazim), Patrick Troughton (Gazio), Zena Marshall (Maria)
Drake's latest assignment: rescue a Portuguese hero being held by the Spanish in a supposedly impregnable fort.
19 :01x19 - Johnnie Factotum
Writer: John Kier Cross
Director: Peter Graham Scott
Guest star: Philip Guard (Johnny Factotum), Katharine Blake (Dark Lady), Lawrence Davidson (Lord Marmont)
A young actor warns Drake that a band of robbers are planning to steal the treasure he just brought to England on the Golden Hind.
20 :01x20 - Mission to Paris
Writer: Lindsay Galloway
Director: David Greene
Guest star: Yvonne Buckingham (Heloise), Ryan Jeffs (Martier), Desmond Newling (Rietti), Peter Diamond (De Luc), Michael Ripper (Calyus), Ewan Roberts (Munro), Richard Warner (Walsingham), Patrick Allen (Navarre), Leon Peters (Aleneon), Pamela Brown (Catherine de Medici)
Queen Elizabeth sends Drake on a delicate mission to Paris to find out why a young Frenchman, of whom she had become fond, has not returned to England.
21 :01x21 - The Reluctant Duchess
Writer: Gordon Wellesley, Paul Tabori
Director: Terry Bishop
Guest star: Basil Dignam (Duke of Ravenstein), Mary Merrall (Duchess of Ravenstein), Ferdy Mayne (Joos)
Our hero's mission this time is to save the Duchess of Ravenstein from the clutches of the Spaniards.
22 :01x22 - The Gypsies
Writer: John Baines
Director: John Lemont
Guest star: Milton Reid (Diego), Howard Lang (Grenville), William Abney (Don Pedro), Larry Burns (Obadiah), Christopher Carlos (Balthazar), Harry Lockhart (Rafael), Glynn Edwards (Will Martin), Eileen Way (Pastora), Sarah Branch (Sara)
Drake rescues four gypsies at sea only to have the crew of the Golden Hind come to believe that their new passengers are casting an evil influence upon the ship.
23 :01x23 - Court Intrigue
Writer: Hugh Ross Williamson
Director: Terry Bishop
Guest star: Robin Hughes (Adam Forester), Ewan Roberts (Munro), Bernard Archard (Sir Christopher), John Arnatt (Spanish Ambassador)
The Spanish come up with a scheme to keep Drake in England until one of their treasure ships from the New World arrives home safely in Seville.
24 :01x24 - Gentleman of Spain
Writer: John Kier Cross
Director: John Lemont
Guest star: Jack Melford (Sir Owen), Marne Maitland (Ulrich Ali), Paul Stassino (Hassan Bey), Nigel Davenport (Don Miguel)
A kinsman of the Queen gets kidnapped by Barbary pirates and it's Francis Drake to the rescue.
25 :01x25 - The Fountain of Youth
Writer: Ian Stuart Black
Director: Terry Bishop
Guest star: Endre Muller (Black Eagle), Katherine Woodville (Little Dove), Reginald Beckwith (Sir Henry Rainsford), Howard Lang (Grenville), Milton Reid (Diego)
Drake pulls into Florida where he hears tell about a legendary Fountain of Youth.
26 :01x26 - Escape
Writer: David Greene
Director: David Greene
Guest star: Barry Morse (Governor), Charles Heslop (Withers), Brian Bedford (Esteban), Barry Keegan (Gomez), Howard Lang (Grenville), Martin Boddey (Colonel)