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* InNameOnly: The Struldbruggs in the miniseries bear little resemblance to the book besides the name and the fact that they're immortal. They're not born that way and they don't have AgeWithoutYouth; instead, they drink from a FountainOfYouth which also robs them of their sight (although they consider this a small price to pay for never dying, and try unsuccessfully to convince Gulliver of this).
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* InNameOnly: The Struldbruggs in the miniseries bear little resemblance to the book besides the name and the fact that they're immortal. They're not born that way and they don't have AgeWithoutYouth; way; instead, they drink from a FountainOfYouth which also robs makes them of superficially immortal, but can't protect their sight bodies from failing over time and their eyes from clouding over as their insides suffer the same AgeWithoutYouth as their book counterparts (although they consider this a small price to pay for never dying, and try unsuccessfully to convince Gulliver of this).
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* AdaptationalModesty: As expected for TV, the Yahoos wear crude loincloths and bikinis instead of walking around naked like beasts. In the same chapter, Gulliver is not attacked while SkinnyDipping but just after enough time to make it to the shore and put on his breeches first.
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* TruerToTheText: Despite its deviations, the miniseries is held as the truest adaptation of Swift's novel, featuring all travels and not [[{{bowdlerize}} bowdlerizing]] them into a children's tale.
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** The original Gulliver was about 38 at the beginning of the first travel and 54 at the end of the novel. In the movie he appears to be still in his 30s by the end (i.e. Ted Danson's age at the time of filming), with a 10 year old son as his only child.
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* EvilDoppelganger: Gulliver finds his duplicate in the Room of Answers, who not only does not help him, but mocks him saying that Gulliver may be presently unable return home because he actually doesn't want to.
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* RealAfterAll: Almost everyone who hears Gulliver's stories after his return to England thinks that he is insane, but he is proven right after his son shows them a Liliputian sheep.
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* GrayRainOfDepression: Rain pours after Gulliver is ruled to be a Yahoo by the Houyhnhnm Council and sentenced to be with the Yahoos before leaving the island with the new moon.
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* ImportantHaircut: Gulliver's hair is cut short when he is put in an isolation cell after he attacks Dr. Bates.
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* ThrownDownAWell: The isolation cell at the Bedlam House is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] version of this, having its entrance at the top and allowing people to safely watch and talk to Gulliver from there.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: Gulliver's son proves that his father's tales are real, giving him his freedom, and he is last seen leaving the court happily in the company of his family. In the book he didn't have to prove his sanity or the veracity of his claims, but he became detached from his wife and children, whom he had come to see as Yahoos, and preferred the company of horses.
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* FramingDevice: In this version, Gulliver revives and relays his travels as he is suspected, examined, and committed for being assumed insane.
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''Gulliver's Travels'' is a 1996 miniseries adaptation of the Creator/JonathanSwift [[Literature/GulliversTravels novel of the same name]]. It is a coproduction by the Creator/JimHensonCompany and the Creator/HallmarkChannel.
Creator/TedDanson stars as Dr. Lemuel Gulliver, an 18th-century Englishman who is recounting his fantastical travels to people he meets back in England: the island of tiny people Liliput; the land of the giants Brobdingnag; the floating castle Laputa; the immortal Struldbrugs; and the intelligent Houyhnhnm horses. His wife Mary (Creator/MarySteenburgen) becomes concerned about his mental state, their young son Tom (Creator/TomSturridge) believes his father's tales, and his rival Dr. Bates (Creator/JamesFox) tries to take advantage of the situation by committing Dr. Gulliver to an asylum.
Other actors involved include Creator/PeterOToole as the Emperor of Liliput, Creator/AlfreWoodard as the Queen of Brobdingnag, and Creator/JohnGielgud as the Professor of Sunlight.
The series is notable for using flashbacks portray the travels. It is also the rare ''Gulliver's Travels'' adaptation to feature all the voyages.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: The Brobdingnagians are much more enlightened than they are in the original; they are implied to be completely free of racism and sexism, since their rulers are black and the Queen has as much authority as the King, and said rulers act like philosopher-kings instead of abusing their power. In the book, it is made very clear that Brobdingnag has all of England’s flaws except war, hinting that the latter is only absent because it is isolated from all other countries. The courtiers are flighty and ignorant, and the court dwarf is treated like shit because of his deformity, not to mention the extreme poverty in the city. The miniseries removes this to the point that the Brobdingnagians’ horror at gunpowder seems like moral conviction instead of [[OvenLogic Gulliver not realizing that scaling up a magazine by a factor of 12 would be potentially catastrophic]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: Dr Bates gets only a cursorial mention in the book; in the mini-series he has Gulliver committed to an insane asylum so that he can marry Gulliver's wife.
* AdaptationDistillation: In the novel, Gulliver returns to England at the end of each voyage. In the miniseries, he is gone for nine years and only returns home at the end of his final voyage.
* AgeLift: In the novel, the Emperor of Lilliput is "twenty-eight years and three-quarters old." In the miniseries, he is in his sixties at least.
%%* BedlamHouse: The original Bedlam House, no less.
* CompositeCharacter:
** All of Gulliver's children are replaced a single son named Tom.
** The Brobdingnagian King's role is given to the Queen.
* GenderFlip: The Brobdingnagian king is replaced with the Queen, and Gulliver's Houyhnhnm master is now a mistress.
* HappilyMarried: Gulliver and his wife Mary remain a loving couple, as opposed to the novel, where [[spoiler:Gulliver is unable to fit in with normal people at the end]].
* InNameOnly: The Struldbruggs in the miniseries bear little resemblance to the book besides the name and the fact that they're immortal. They're not born that way and they don't have AgeWithoutYouth; instead, they drink from a FountainOfYouth which also robs them of their sight (although they consider this a small price to pay for never dying, and try unsuccessfully to convince Gulliver of this).
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Ted Danson doesn't try to put on an English accent except for a moment or two, even though Gulliver is an Englishman, and mostly just sounds American. (which actually makes it an AccidentallyCorrectWriting[[invoked]]; in the 18th century when the book was written, the "English accent" sounded a lot closer to what we would consider an American accent.)
%%* OvenLogic: Gulliver tries to be a OneManIndustrialRevolution in Brobdingnag by teaching the King the secrets of gunpowder. So he has a powder keg filled up that is scaled to Brobdingnagian size (meaning it holds 1728 times as much as normal). ...Yeah, he’s really lucky that didn’t straight-up kill him. The explosion makes the King call the English “an odious race”.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: General Limtoc and Admiral Bolgolam are the Emperor of Lilliput's sons in the miniseries.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Gulliver tries to convince people his experiences were real, but comes off quite deranged since they're incredibly bizarre and he suffers from very frequent traumatic flashbacks which make him seem like he's just hallucinating it all. [[spoiler: His son Tom eventually finds the tiny sheep from Lilliput which he brought, proving it was real.]]
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''Gulliver's Travels'' is a 1996 miniseries adaptation of the Creator/JonathanSwift [[Literature/GulliversTravels novel of the same name]]. It is a coproduction by the Creator/JimHensonCompany and the Creator/HallmarkChannel.
Creator/TedDanson stars as Dr. Lemuel Gulliver, an 18th-century Englishman who is recounting his fantastical travels to people he meets back in England: the island of tiny people Liliput; the land of the giants Brobdingnag; the floating castle Laputa; the immortal Struldbrugs; and the intelligent Houyhnhnm horses. His wife Mary (Creator/MarySteenburgen) becomes concerned about his mental state, their young son Tom (Creator/TomSturridge) believes his father's tales, and his rival Dr. Bates (Creator/JamesFox) tries to take advantage of the situation by committing Dr. Gulliver to an asylum.
Other actors involved include Creator/PeterOToole as the Emperor of Liliput, Creator/AlfreWoodard as the Queen of Brobdingnag, and Creator/JohnGielgud as the Professor of Sunlight.
The series is notable for using flashbacks portray the travels. It is also the rare ''Gulliver's Travels'' adaptation to feature all the voyages.
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!!Tropes:
* AdaptationalHeroism: The Brobdingnagians are much more enlightened than they are in the original; they are implied to be completely free of racism and sexism, since their rulers are black and the Queen has as much authority as the King, and said rulers act like philosopher-kings instead of abusing their power. In the book, it is made very clear that Brobdingnag has all of England’s flaws except war, hinting that the latter is only absent because it is isolated from all other countries. The courtiers are flighty and ignorant, and the court dwarf is treated like shit because of his deformity, not to mention the extreme poverty in the city. The miniseries removes this to the point that the Brobdingnagians’ horror at gunpowder seems like moral conviction instead of [[OvenLogic Gulliver not realizing that scaling up a magazine by a factor of 12 would be potentially catastrophic]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: Dr Bates gets only a cursorial mention in the book; in the mini-series he has Gulliver committed to an insane asylum so that he can marry Gulliver's wife.
* AdaptationDistillation: In the novel, Gulliver returns to England at the end of each voyage. In the miniseries, he is gone for nine years and only returns home at the end of his final voyage.
* AgeLift: In the novel, the Emperor of Lilliput is "twenty-eight years and three-quarters old." In the miniseries, he is in his sixties at least.
%%* BedlamHouse: The original Bedlam House, no less.
* CompositeCharacter:
** All of Gulliver's children are replaced a single son named Tom.
** The Brobdingnagian King's role is given to the Queen.
* GenderFlip: The Brobdingnagian king is replaced with the Queen, and Gulliver's Houyhnhnm master is now a mistress.
* HappilyMarried: Gulliver and his wife Mary remain a loving couple, as opposed to the novel, where [[spoiler:Gulliver is unable to fit in with normal people at the end]].
* InNameOnly: The Struldbruggs in the miniseries bear little resemblance to the book besides the name and the fact that they're immortal. They're not born that way and they don't have AgeWithoutYouth; instead, they drink from a FountainOfYouth which also robs them of their sight (although they consider this a small price to pay for never dying, and try unsuccessfully to convince Gulliver of this).
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Ted Danson doesn't try to put on an English accent except for a moment or two, even though Gulliver is an Englishman, and mostly just sounds American. (which actually makes it an AccidentallyCorrectWriting[[invoked]]; in the 18th century when the book was written, the "English accent" sounded a lot closer to what we would consider an American accent.)
%%* OvenLogic: Gulliver tries to be a OneManIndustrialRevolution in Brobdingnag by teaching the King the secrets of gunpowder. So he has a powder keg filled up that is scaled to Brobdingnagian size (meaning it holds 1728 times as much as normal). ...Yeah, he’s really lucky that didn’t straight-up kill him. The explosion makes the King call the English “an odious race”.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: General Limtoc and Admiral Bolgolam are the Emperor of Lilliput's sons in the miniseries.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Gulliver tries to convince people his experiences were real, but comes off quite deranged since they're incredibly bizarre and he suffers from very frequent traumatic flashbacks which make him seem like he's just hallucinating it all. [[spoiler: His son Tom eventually finds the tiny sheep from Lilliput which he brought, proving it was real.]]
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