Peter Pan and the Pirates
| Peter Pan & the Pirates | |
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| Genre |
Adventure Fantasy |
| Written by |
Peter Lawrence Chris Hubbell Larry Carroll David Carren |
| Starring |
Jason Marsden as the voice of Peter Pan Tim Curry as the voice of Captain James Hook |
| Voices of |
Chris M. Allport Debi Derryberry Ed Gilbert Whitby Hertford Christina Lange Jack Lynch |
| Country of origin | United States Japan |
| No. of episodes | 65 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Buzz Potamkin |
| Editor(s) |
Don Christensen Hiroshi Ohno (TMS) |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Fox Children's Productions Southern Star Productions TMS Entertainment |
| Distributor | 20th Century Fox Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox Kids |
| Original release | September 8, 1990 – September 10, 1991 |
Peter Pan & the Pirates is an American animated television series based on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan that originally aired on Fox Broadcasting Company from September 8, 1990 to September 10, 1991. Repeats continued to air until September 11, 1992. A repeat of the series' Christmas episode was aired on December 25, 1993. The series was then on Fox in re-run form on weekday mornings from November 4, 1996 to March 28, 1997. Reruns were then shown on Fox Family in 1998.
The television 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 Ignatious 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.
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 the existence of her daughter means that one day Wendy will leave Neverland and grow up.
The on-screen title was given as Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates (Given in promotional materials and advertisements in the UK as Twentieth Century Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates) as to emphasize the fact that this was an independent production by 20th Century Fox, unrelated to the Disney feature or other previous media incarnations of the Peter Pan property.
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