Garry, I think that the prog you are referring to was called "The Flashng Blade", which was endlessly repeated at the same time as White Horses, Belle and Sebastian, the Singing Ringing Tree etc. It was set in Northern Italy, and (my history tutor told me years later)based on a real incident during Francis I's wars with Emperor Charles V during the early sixteenth century. All I can remember of it was that the plot was incomprehensible, and that there was a lot of galloping through forests. Sadly, I can also recall snatches of the theme tune. Why do we remember all this sh*te? In the Aeronauts annual they flew a Catalina around French Polynesia, but I don't recall them doing that in the TV version.