!!The Books Trivia:
* AuthorExistenceFailure: ''Crisis'' and ''The Point and the Edge'' were left unfinished when Forrester died.

!!The TV Series Trivia
* DawsonCasting:
** Horatio, 17 years old as of the first film, was played by 25-year-old Creator/IoanGruffudd.
** Same with the then-25 year old Creator/JamieBamber as 17-year old Archie Kennedy.
* DoingItForTheArt: The first series was filmed on ships, and it looked ''awesome''. The second series wasn't; but it still looked pretty good. Sadly averted with the third series, which was done carelessly, and it shows, especially compared to the previous cool instalments.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The Forrester estate would only let "Mutiny" and "Retribution" film if Archie Kennedy was written out. (Not unreasonably, since his friendship with Horatio was changing Horatio's characterization too drastically from the source.) The writers convinced them to at least [[spoiler: let him die on screen. They then pulled a fast one and had Archie perform a HeroicSacrifice to save Horatio.]] And the estate couldn't do anything about it.
* FakeAmerican: The Irish/English actress Camilla Power as American Betsy [[spoiler: Bonaparte]].
* FanNickname:
** "Crumpet" for Archie Kennedy
** "Ratio" for Horatio Hornblower
** Mariette is sometimes referred to as "Frogette"
* FanCommunityNickname: Archie's fans call themselves Crumpeteers. [[note]]It originated at A&E message board "A Naughty Pellew Fantasy". The nickname then appeared in a piece of fan fic "All About Major E." AKA "All About Lord Edrington" by Karen (AKA [=SeaSpotRun=]). It was a tongue-in-cheek questionnaire filled in by Major Edrington who called Archie "a panicky bit of Blonde Crumpet".[[/note]]
* ImageSource:
** BadassAdorable.LiveActionTV
** BurialAtSea
** ReverseArmFold
* HeyItsThatGuy: Fans may recognize several characters from the mini-series as their other rather famous creations.
** Horatio as [[Film/FantasticFour Mr. Fantastic]]
** Archie as [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Lee Adama]]
** Mr Bush as [[Series/DoctorWho the Eighth Doctor]] or [[Film/WithnailAndI "I"]]
** Young Jack Hammond is [[HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Tom Riddle]].
** Captain Foster is none other than [[StarWars Wedge Antilles]].
** Gunner Hobbs lives in Series/{{Cranford}}.
** Major Côtard was a villainous English "gentleman" once, trying to seduce Marianne Dashwood as Mr Willoughby of ''Film/SenseAndSensibility''.
** Maria Mason used to be a beauty and quite a teenage brat -- as Miss Lydia Bennet of ''PrideAndPrejudice'' mini-series adaptation.
** Lieutenant Eccleston was once an officer aboard a cool ship and died in the very first episode. On ''Series/RedDwarf'', he appeared as Toddhunter.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A&E Network/Meridian never released the show's epic music score, no matter how badly fans begged for it. The best fans can do is to rip the sound from [=DVDs=]. There are files to be found on line, but there are some background noises...
* SendingStuffToSaveTheShow: ''Hornblower'' fans (mostly fan girls) organize postcard drives from time to time. Unfortunately to no success, but hope never dies.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/PaulMcGann was cast in the adaptation of ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'', but he broke his leg and the role was re-cast. If that hadn't happened, he would have been shooting ''Sharpe'' and Mr Bush would have been portrayed by somebody else.
* WordOfGod: According to Jamie Bamber, Archie is the third son of Scottish lord. Given his status as a CompositeCharacter, the majority of his backstory is composed of either the actors' and writers' statements about him, or {{Fanon}}.
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