Treasure Island

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! The exciting children's classic sets sail on BBC Video! Join Jm Hawkins as he sets sail on the greatest adventure of them all - the search for Treasure Island! THE ARRIVAL of a stranger at his isolated coastal inn is welcome news for Daniel Hawkins. With his failing health, he is desperate for any means of supporting his wife and his son Jim - even if it means acommodating the wild, drunken rages of Captain Billy Bones. For Bones is on the run from his former shipmates led by John Silver, for refusing to share the secrets of a map showing where treasure lies buried on a Caribbean Island. With the tap, tap, tap of pirate Blind Pew's stick outside the inn, Bones knows that the men have caught up with him. His fate is sealed. But John Silver did not bargin on somebody else getting to the map before him - and that somebody is young Jim Hawkins. Together with Dr Livesey, Squire Trelawny and Captain Doakes, Hawkins is all set to seek the treasure himself. Yet even before they set sail from Bristol, Captain Doakes is uneasy about the crew chosen by Squire Trelawny - in partiular, the cheerful old sailor with one leg who calls himself "Long John Silver".... © A BBC Television co-production with Universal Television.