Warship (TV series)

Warship
Genre	Action/Drama series
Created by	Ian Mackintosh and Anthony Coburn
Written by	Ian Mackintosh and others
Directed by	Michael E. Briant and others
Theme music composer	Anthony Isaac
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English in Warship, Dutch in Alle hens
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	45
Production
Producer(s)	Anthony Coburn and Joe Waters
Editor(s)	Ian Mackintosh
Running time	50 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	7 June 1973 – 29 March 1977

Warship is a popular British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1973 and 1977. It was also dubbed into Dutch and broadcast in the Netherlands as Alle hens. Four series were produced, with 45 episodes made in total, and it enjoyed popularity in Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

The series dealt with life on board a Royal Navy warship, the fictional HMS Hero. It was mainly filmed aboard the Leander-class frigate HMS Phoebe.

The episodes were written and filmed to reflect the reality of life in the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines in the 1970s. The primary focus for most stories was on the Captain and his fellow officers, but the series also featured life on the lower decks to portray episodes heavily featuring ratings. Episodes featured a variety of events at sea (the Cold War, smuggling, the evacuation of civilians from crisis-hit places, etc.), as well as the personal lives of officers and ratings and the impact their personal lives had on their professional lives and duties.

HMS Hero was captained by three very different officers throughout the series. Donald Burton portrayed Commander Mark Nialls, a high flying young officer in the first two series, Bryan Marshall portrayed Commander Alan Glenn, a former Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot in the third series, and Derek Godfrey portrayed Captain Edward Holt, a former nuclear submariner, in the fourth and final series.

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