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NBC Version of `Gulliver's Travels' Faithful to Swift

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From: All Things Considered (NPR)
Date: 19960202
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A reviewer says NBC's four-hour adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver' s Travels" shows ``startling fidelity'' to the 18th-Century novel. Ted Danson's acting limitations show, though, says Ken Tucker.

ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Television is currently in its sweeps period, the time when the networks broadcast their most eye-catching shows to try to drive up ratings and increase their advertising rates. This usually results in a lot of trashy mini-series, the sort that are billed as being `based on a true story.'

But this Sunday and Monday, NBC will air a new ...

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