I have a dvd somewhere with a collection of 'first episodes' and Cadet happy was in the tv series Tom Corbett. Maybe they borrowed the character ?
As for cheap tv shows. In the early 1960s, there was a Pirate kids show out of Baltimore, Maryland. he showed, of course, Popeye cartoons. There were 'surprise attacks' by the likes of Captain Kidd and Captain Morgan. Stock footage excerted from old pirate/bucaneer movides of the 1950s of battles at sea between pirate and Royal Navy sailing ships..
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