Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates is an American animated television series based on J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" that aired on Fox from September 8, 1990 to September 10, 1991. The television show focuses as much on the pirates as it does on Peter Pan. Captain Hook and Mr. Smee traditionally are the only pirates who receive any attention in the story, but here, the other crew members of the Jolly Roger (Robert Mullins, Alf Mason, Gentleman Ignatious Starkey, Billy Jukes, and Cookson) are given distinct personalities and character development. A real force to
Peter Pan (1953 film) to achieve in a film. In earlier scripts, there were more scenes involving the Pirates and the Mermaids that were similar to what Disney had previously done with the dwarfs in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Ultimately, these scenes were cut for pacing reasons. The film was also a little bit darker at one point since there were scenes involving Captain Hook being killed by the crocodile, the Darling family mourning over their lost children, and Pan and the children discovering the pirates' treasure which is loaded with booby traps. As with previous Disney animated features, a live-action version