To sea with Captain Simon Hatley , touching at Robinson Crusoe's island, and back with the Ancient Mariner
Written by Francis Watson with Howard Marion-Crawford , Ernest Jay Desmond Llewelyn , Geoffrey Wincott
Peter Vaughan , John Cazabon Richard George , Victor Platt
Patrick Westwood , Betty Hardy
Produced by Maurice Brown
In the year in which Robinson Crusoe first appeared, a man who had seen Alexander Selkirk rescued from Juan Fernandez sailed again to the South Seas, shot an albatross on a day of bad weather, and so in the fullness of time made his forgotten contribution to another literary masterpiece.