Pirates (TV series)

Pirates
GenreChildren's
Comedy
Written byRebecca Stevens
Peter Tabern
Matthew Tabern
Dave Freedman
Alan Gilbey
Michael Malaghan
Directed byPeter Tabern
StarringLiz Smith
Paul Bown
Andrew Sachs
Hayley Elliott
Benjamin Rennis
Rebecca Stevens
Toby Sedgwick
Theme music composerJonathan Cohen
ComposerJonathan Cohen
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes24
Production
Executive producersAlbert Barber
Jeremy Swan
ProducerPeter Tabern
Running time25 minutes
Production companyChildsplay Productions
Original release
NetworkBBC One
CBBC
Release6 October 1994 (1994-10-06) 
26 August 1997 (1997-08-26)

Pirates is a British children's television sitcom. Produced by Childsplay Productions for the BBC, it ran for three series broadcast by Children's BBC between 1994 and 1997, and has not been repeated or commercially released since. The series revolves around a family of pirates whose ship runs aground in North London, prompting them to take up residence in a council house on Wordsworth Terrace, a nearby street.