The Adventures of Gulliver explained

Country:	United States
Language:	English
Num Episodes:	17
Runtime:	21-22 min.
Company:	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Network:	ABC
Last Aired:	^[1]
Related:	The Banana Splits and Friends Show

The Adventures of Gulliver is a 1968 television cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The show is loosely based on the 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The show aired Saturday mornings on ABC-TV and lasted for one season in its original broadcast.^[2] Flirtacia appeared in the third season of Jellystone!.

Plot

While on a treasure hunting voyage with his father, Gary Gulliver and his dog Tagg end up shipwrecked on an island. On this island is the kingdom of Lilliput,^[3] where its inhabitants have a height of only a few centimeters. Gary and Tagg are caught by the Lilliputians while they are recovering from the shipwreck, but afterwards they become great friends. With the help of the Lilliputians, Gary continues searching for his missing father. (A subplot in the series involves a map that Gary's father left to him after secretly putting it inside Tagg's collar before the shipwreck). The villain of the series is the evil Captain Leech who, in the adventures, is always attempting to steal the map from Gary.

Broadcast history

Seventeen episodes were produced and were originally broadcast on ABC in the fall and winter of 1968-69. The episodes were rerun through the summer of 1970. In 1971, the show became part of The Banana Splits and Friends Show, the syndicated version of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.^[4] Toys were produced in Germany by Heimo.

Voice cast

Jerry Dexter – Gary Gulliver
John Stephenson – Captain John Leech, Thomas Gulliver (Gary's father), and King Pomp (monarch of Lilliput)
Ginny Tyler – Flirtacia (King Pomp's daughter and princess of Lilliput)
Allan Melvin – Bunko (a Lilliputian)
Don Messick – Eager (a Lilliputian) and Tagg (Gary's dog)
Herb Vigran – Glum (a Lilliputian)

Additional series credits

Associate Producer: Lew Marshall
Story Direction: Howard Swift
Story by: Ken Spears, Joe Ruby
Animation Director: Charles A. Nichols
Production Design: Iwao Takamoto
Production Coordinator: Victor O. Schipek
Layouts: John Ahern, Pete Alvarado, Dick Bickenbach, Brad Case, Walt Clinton, Richard Gonzalez, Gary Hoffman, Jack Huber, Tom Knowles, Lance Nolley, Joel Seibel, Don Sheppard
Animation: Ray Abrams, Carlos Alfonso, Bob Bemiller, Ron Campbell, Shannon Lee Dyer, Hugh Fraser, George Goepper, Fernando Gonzales, Sam Jaimes, Volus Jones, Dick Lundy, Ed Parks, Don Patterson, Ray Patterson, Irv Spence, Bob Taylor, Lloyd Vaughan, Allen Wilzbach
Backgrounds: Walt Peregoy, Janet Brown, Sheila Brown, Albert Gmuer, Fernando Montealegre, Gary Niblett, Eric Semones, Peter Van Elk
Titles: Robert Schaefer
Music Director: Ted Nichols
Technical Supervisor: Frank Paiker
Ink and Paint Supervisor: Roberta Greutert
Xerography: Robert "Tiger" West
Sound Direction: Richard Olson
Film Editing: Geoffrey Griffin, James Yaras
Camera: George Epperson, Charles Flekal, Bill Kotler, Ralph Migliori, Cliff Shirpser, Roy Wade

Home Video

The 1st episode "Dangerous Journey" was released on the DVDs Saturday Morning Cartoons Vol. 2 & Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s-1980s Collection.

Notes and References

Book: Woolery . George W. . Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981 . 1983 . Scarecrow Press . 0-8108-1557-5 . 14 March 2020 . 8–9.
Terrace, Vincent (1976). The Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs 1947-1976 (Vol. 1). South Brunswick and New York: A.S. Barnes and Company. .
Web site: The Adventures of Gulliver . dead . https://archive.today/20131201152723/http://www.tv.com/shows/the-adventures-of-gulliver/ . 2013-12-01 . .
Castleman, Harry & Podrazik, Walter J. (1984). The TV Schedule Book. New York: McGraw-Hill Paperbacks. .