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    Nearly thirty years after Fleischer Studio's "Gulliver's Travels" animated feature, Hanna-Barbera produced "The Adventures Of Gulliver." For this version, the hero was teenaged Gary Gulliver, who like most other young protagonists from the studio, had a pet dog, Tag. I strongly suspect that Gary and his father Thomas were in fact, the modern descendants of Lemuel Gulliver. Neither they nor Captain Leech(note the spelling of the villain's last name) looked, dressed, or spoke like 17th century seamen.

    The pilot episode "Dangerous Journey" was indeed similar to the "Lilliput" portion of the novel. After that, it was typical H-B through and through. But I liked what I saw. Glum always being pessimistic, Egger being a bit too eager. Bunco pulling some stunt to outwit Captain Leech or some other potential enemy. And Flirtacia doting on Gary's handsomeness. Plus, there was plenty of humor, like when King Pomp decided to call the Marines, and shouted, "Hey! Marines!"

    Speaking of Flirtacia, I never understood why some sources called her King Pomp's daughter. When she introduced herself to Gary, she didn't call herself Princess Flirtacia, just Flirtacia. In addition, she wore peasant clothes instead of royal garb, and not once did King Pomp call her daughter.

    This series made me decided to read "Gulliver's Travels " in high school. So it did have something going for it. There was also a "Gulliver"-inspired episode of '"The New Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn," but more about that show on Monday.

    Years later, H-B aired a more faithful adaptation of Swift's most famous work. This was the only version to include the other lands Gulliver visited. Maybe someday I'll see this version. But for now, I consider "The Adventures Of Gulliver" top notch.

    Incidentally, there will be no Hanna-Barbera threads tomorrow, the 17th, 18th, and 20th.
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    Hanna-Barbera's "Adventures of Gulliver" premiered on ABC in September 1968 and ran for two seasons (Season 2 were all reruns of Season 1). Gary never did find his father in the run of the series.

    Two other "tiny people/giants" series also premiered on ABC that same season...

    Filmation's "Fantastic Voyage" cartoon on the ABC Saturday morning schedule based on the Isaac Asimov novel and the 1966 movie starring Raquel Welch. The show chronicled the adventures of the CMDF (Combined Miniature Defense Force) team (heroic eye-patched Commander Jonathan Kidd, tempermental inventor/pilot Busby Birdwell, female biologist Erica Lane, and the mysterious Guru who had strange powers of illusion and levitation)...who along with their flying ship The Voyager got shrunk down to tiny size for a maximum of 12 hours to perform top secret spy missions.

    Irwin Allen's live-action "Land of the Giants" series ran on prime time...The space passenger ship "Spindrift" hits a space warp during a routine flight from Los Angeles to London and crash landed in a giant-sized world. Captain Steve Burton (Gary Conway), co-pilot Dan Erickson (Don Marshall), stewardess Betty Hamilton (Heather Young) and passengers engineer/business tycoon Mark Wilson (Don Matheson), heiress Valerie Scott (Deanna Lund), con-artist/thief Alexander Fitzhugh (Kurt Kasznar), and orphan Barry Lockridge (Stefan Arnigrim) battled hostile giant people and animals and climbed oversized props to get items to repair their downed ship and to avoid mean giant Inspector Kobick (Kevin Hagen) and his SID (Special Investigation Department) goons who were tracking down the little people for capture.

    Both series also lasted two seasons.
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    You forgot to mention Barry's pet dog Chipper.
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    Trivia Question 87: What did Flirtacia ruin when she wrongly suspected Gary of cheating?
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    Trivia Answer: Gulliver's birthday cake.
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