On early-1960s American TV, the line between "camp" and "gay" was sometimes awfully thin. Here's the great George Rose playing a very campy, queer-coded pirate in a CBS production of TREASURE ISLAND (March 5, 1960). He almost sounds like he's channeling the British camp comedian Kenneth Williams.
Young Jim is played by Richard O'Sullivan, who 13 years later would star as Robin Tripp in the British sitcom MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE (the inspiration for THREE'S COMPANY) and later the sequel ROBIN'S NEST.
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