Adapt or Perish

In Episode 148 of Adapt or Perish, we’re going back nearly 300 years to talk about the classic satire Gulliver’s Travels!

In this episode, we discuss:

• Jonathan Swift’s original 1726 novel
• Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants (1902), the silent short directed by George Méliès
• Gulliver Mickey (1934), the animated short directed by Burt Gillett and starring Walt Disney
• Gulliver’s Travels (1939), the animated movie directed by Dave Fleischer, and starring Sam Parker, Pinto Colvig, Jack Mercer, and Lovey Warren
• The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960), the movie directed by Jack Sher, written by Sher and Arthur Ross, and starring Kerwin Matthews and June Thorburn
• Gulliver’s Travels (1977), the live-action/animated movie directed by Peter R. Hunt, written by Don Black, and starring Richard Harris
• Famous Classic Tales: Gulliver’s Travels (1979), the animated special produced by Hanna-Barbera and written by Kimmer Ringwald
• Saban’s Gulliver’s Travels (1992), the animated series produced by Saban International Paris
• Gulliver’s Travels (Hallmark and Jim Henson Productions, 1996), the miniseries directed by Charles Sturridge, written by Simon Moore, and starring Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Alfre Woodard, John Gielgud, Kate Maberly, Geraldine Chaplin, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Isabelle Huppert
• Gulliver’s Travels (Golden Films, 1996), the animated special produced by Diane Eskenazi and Golden Films
• Gulliver’s Travels (2010), the movie directed by Rob Letterman, written by Joe Stillman and Nicholas Stoller, and starring Jack Black, Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, and Chris O’Dowd

Footnotes:

• Kerwin and Tom forever!
• The theme song for Saban’s Gulliver’s Travels
• The trailer for Gulliver’s Travels (2010)
• Reign of Fire did it better.

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