Peter Pan and the Pirates
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| Peter Pan & the Pirates | |
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 Title screen |
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| Format | animated adventure fantasy |
| Starring | See Cast list, below. |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 65 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 min. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Fox Kids |
| Original run | September 8, 1990 – December 2, 1991 |
Peter Pan & the Pirates is an animated television series based on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan that originally aired on Fox from September 1990 to December 1991. The series was brought back to Fox in re-run form on weekday afternoons from August 1996 - December 1998. It could then be found sporadically from 1998 - 2001 in the early morning hours between 4:30 AM and 6:30 AM.
The TV show focuses as much on the pirates as it does on Peter Pan. Captain Hook and Mr. Smee traditionally are the only pirates who receive any attention in the story, but here, the other crew members of the Jolly Roger (Robert Mullins, Alf Mason, Gentleman Jim Starkey, Billy Jukes, and Cookson) are given distinct personalities and character development. A real force to be reckoned with, Hook is a powerful, temperamental, cultured, intelligent, and charming pirate with an insatiable thirst for vengeance. In Episode 13, "Slightly in Stone", Peter loses his boot after stepping on some tree sap that proceeds to engulf it.
Some attention was also given to the Native American characters (no longer called Redskins). They and their customs were often featured in the storyline.
One episode featured Wendy's daughter Jane (who appears at the end of the original play Peter Pan and at the end of the original book Peter and Wendy). Jane, from the future, visits the Neverland. At the end of the episode, Wendy is a little sad because she knows that this visit from her daughter means that one day Wendy will leave the Neverland and grow up.
The on-screen title was given as Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates to emphasize the fact that this was an independent production by Fox's animation division, unrelated to the Disney feature or other previous media incarnations of the Peter Pan property.
Tim Curry won an Emmy for his portrayal of Hook.
[edit] Cast
| A c t o r | R o l e |
| Chris M. Allport | Tootles (voice) |
| Jack Angel | Robert Mullins & Cookson (voice) |
| Michael Bacall | smaller Twin (voice) |
| Adam Carl | Nibs (voice) |
| Tim Curry | Captain James Hook (voice) |
| Debi Derryberry | Tinker Bell (voice) |
| Ed Gilbert | Smee (voice) |
| Whitby Hertford | Michael Darling (voice) |
| Tony Jay | Alf Mason (voice) |
| Josh Keaton | Curly (voice) |
| Christina Lange | Wendy Darling (voice) |
| Aaron Lohr | Hard-to-hit & tall Twin (voice) |
| Jack Lynch | John Darling (voice) |
| Jason Marsden | Peter Pan (voice) |
| Scott Menville | Slightly (voice) |
| David Shaughnessy | Ignatious Starkey (voice) |
| Cree Summer | Tiger Lily (voice) |
| Eugene Williams | Billy Jukes (voice) |
| Michael Wise | Great Big Little Panther (voice) |
[edit] Video game
A video game titled Peter Pan and the Pirates was released for the NES by third party publisher THQ. The game was generally received poorly by critics.
In this single player side-scrolling action game, the player controlled Peter Pan, who could collect bags of fairy dust to fly and had a sword that boasted a short range (though to be fair, Peter in the TV show also used a short bladed sword as his main weapon). The player started out in the forest and was required to destroy all the pirates in each level to advance to the next, with the final goal of getting to the pirate ship and battling Captain Hook.
[edit] External links
- Peter Pan and the Pirates at TV.com
- Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates at the Internet Movie Database
- Peter Pan And The Pirates Limited Episodes On Veoh
- Peter Pan And The Pirates Episodes On Youtube
