 The first episode concerned getting out of the fictional country of Ximbali, this just presaged real-life events when people fled from the former Rhodesia which had been renamed to the similar-sounding Zimbabwe.Amusingly, in view of later political developments, the lead character in the Buccaneer TV series, played by Bryan Marshall was named "Tony Blair".Buccaneer was the first BBC drama series to be broadcast with Ceefax subtitles for the hearing impaired.