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NBC's 'Gulliver's Travels' hews closely to Jonathan Swift's original.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19960131
Author:Heldenfels, R.D.

The new production of ``Gulliver's Travels'' is making a big point about being true to Jonathan Swift's 1726 book. But screenwriter Simon Moore has thrown in some of Homer's ``Odyssey'' as well.

Swift's satiric look at humanity was a series of adventures by traveler Lemuel Gulliver, the most famous of which is his visit to Lilliput, where he is a giant among smaller people. Ted Danson, the former ``Cheers'' star who plays Gulliver, is not alone in remembering the story from ``some children's abridged version.''

The television version, which will air Sunday and Monday (Feb. 4 ...

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