List of Works Based On Peter Pan - TV

TV

• Producers' Showcase: Peter Pan (March 7, 1955). The 1954 stage version was re-staged for television by NBC as part of its monthly high-quality anthology series Producers' Showcase and broadcast on it as a historic, live color television event. The production was so well received that Producers' Showcase produced a second live presentation on January 9, 1956, with the same cast. Mary Martin played TV's Peter Pan for the third time on December 8, 1960 with many of the same cast members, and this version of the 1954 musical was recorded on color videotape, and repeated in 1963, 1966, and 1973. It was presented by NBC as a stand-alone special program rather than as part of Producer's Showcase. After the 1973 telecast, it was presumed lost and not broadcast again until March 1989, after which it eventually appeared a few times on the Disney Channel. It was also released on videocassette and (very briefly) on DVD. In 2000, the Cathy Rigby stage production, featuring almost all of the songs used in the 1954 version, was telecast by A&E on cable television. Both the Mary Martin and Cathy Rigby versions were eventually released on VHS and DVD, but the Mary Martin version has gone out of print, with no plans to reissue it.
• Hallmark Hall of Fame: Peter Pan (December 12, 1976). A new TV musical production was broadcast on NBC. It starred Mia Farrow as Peter and Danny Kaye as Captain Hook. It had a new score, with music and lyrics by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, but did not achieve the success or the popularity that the Mary Martin version had. The screenplay was by Andrew Birkin, who went on to write and direct The Lost Boys, a docudrama for the BBC about Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies boys.
• Peter Pan no Bōken ("Adventures of Peter Pan", also romanized as "Pîtâ Pan no Bôken") by Nippon Animation (1989), an unauthorized anime television series. Produced as part of Nippon's World Masterpiece Theater series, the first 23 episodes are a loose adaptation of Barrie's story, while the latter half introduces a completely original arc with new supporting characters.
• Peter Pan and the Pirates on Fox Kids (1990), an animated TV series based on Barrie's novel, presenting the Darling children's other adventures in the Neverland during their stay. The series also focuses on significant development of the pirates as less one-dimensional characters. Voice talents in the cast included Jason Marsden as Peter and Tim Curry as "Captain James T. Hook"; Curry won an Emmy for it.
• Jake and the Never Land Pirates (February 2011), an Annie Award-winning musical interactive animated Disney Junior show based on the successful Disney franchise, Peter Pan. The series focuses on a band of young pirates consisting of Jake, Izzy, Cubby, and their parrot Skully, who continuously spend their days competing against Captain Hook and Mr. Smee for treasure.
• Neverland on Syfy Channel and Sky Movies (December 2011), a two-part miniseries that re-imagines the origins of Peter Pan prior to his adventures with Wendy. Here, he (and his friends who would become the Lost Boys) is depicted as being an orphaned pickpocket who was taken in by expert thief and former arms dealer James "Jimmy" Hook as an infant. Directed by Nick Willing, the cast includes Charlie Rowe as Peter Pan, Rhys Ifans as James Hook, Anna Friel as Captain Elizabeth Bonny, Bob Hoskins as Smee, and Keira Knightley as the voice of Tinker Bell.
• Once Upon a Time (2011–present). Two of the primary characters in the Peter Pan story, Captain Hook and Mr. Smee, are featured in the fantasy/drama series, which is produced by Disney-owned ABC Studios. In the show, Captain Hook is named Killian Jones and Mr. Smee's first name is William. Both characters were featured in the second season episode "The Crocodile," which tells the story of how Jones came in contact with Rumpelstiltskin after Jones took his wife Milah, whom he fell in love with, only to lose his left hand from Rumpelstiltskin after Milah threw a bean that provided a portal to a gateway to Jones (Rumpelstiltskin also killed Milah by ripping her heart out). Jones calls Rumpelstiltskin a crocodile because of his appearance and because he wears an alligator jacket. Jones has become a sworn enemy of Rumpelstiltskin now that he knows that he is in a present-day universe called Storybrooke, Maine as the wealthy pawnshop owner Mr. Gold and vows to get even.