The Adventures of Gulliver is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. 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. The series originally aired between September 14, 1968, and January 4, 1969, for 17 episodes.
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, where the inhabitants are only a few inches tall. 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.
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. Toys were produced in Germany by Heimo.
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The 1st episode "Dangerous Journey" was released on the DVDs Saturday Morning Cartoons Vol. 2 & Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s-1980s Collection.
Flirtacia appeared in the third season of Jellystone!.
From 1972-1982, a small boat ride themed around the series called GulliverâÂÂs Rub-a-Dub operated at Kings Island in Cincinnati, Ohio in the Happy Land of Hanna-Barbera section of the park. Characters from the series were also featured in The Enchanted Voyage ride at the park which operated from 1972-1983.