Captain's daughter Josephine and common sailor Ralph Rackstraw are in love. However, their relationship is complicated by her arranged marriage to the high-ranking Sir Joseph Porter. A secret about the characters' true identities revealed by Little Buttercup, which leads to a farcical resolution. Filmed live from the 1980 Stratford Festival in Ontario.

• Stratford Festival
• CBC
• Katherine Terrell
• James MacLean
• Michael Burgess
• Patricia Kern
• Eric Donkin
• Avo Kittask
• Paul Massel