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Gulliver's Travels

★ 6.9 8K votes 1996–1996 1 seasons · 2 episodes Ended NBC
Event miniseriesPrestige limited television built as an event.This show: 7/10Tight limited runA compact, complete story told in just a few episodes.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Ted DansonMary SteenburgenJames FoxRobert HardyEdward PetherbridgeTom Sturridge
Starring
Ted DansonMary SteenburgenJames FoxRobert HardyEdward PetherbridgeTom Sturridge
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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"Swift's satire dressed up as lavish fantasy spectacle"

This TV movie adapts Jonathan Swift's classic through a framing device: Gulliver returns home from his voyages and is locked away as a madman, his fantastical tales of tiny Lilliputians and towering Brobdingnagians dismissed as delusion. The show alternates between whimsical wonder as he navigates these miniature and giant societies, and a darker, more melancholy thread about disbelief and isolation. Lavish production design and a starry ensemble cast carry it, giving Swift's satire on human folly and society real visual scale rather than just comic spectacle.

Watch it for

the starry ensemble cast bringing Swift's satirical fantasy worlds vividly and lavishly to life.

Maybe skip if

you want breezy adventure without the darker satirical and melancholy undertones woven throughout.

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All Seasons

Miniseries1996
7.321523h 6m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1Episode #1.17.3
11093 min
2Episode #1.27.2
10593 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Ted Danson Lemuel Gulliver
Mary Steenburgen Mary Gulliver
James Fox Dr. Bates
Robert Hardy Dr. Parnell
Edward Petherbridge Dr. Pritchard
Tom Sturridge Tom Gulliver
Ned Beatty Farmer Grultrud
Geraldine Chaplin Empress Munodi
Edward Fox General Limtoc
Graham Crowden Professor of Politics

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