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
Captain Hook productions of the Peter Pan story. According to A.N. Wilson, Barrie "openly acknowledged Hook and his obsession with the crocodile was an English version of Ahab", and there are other borrowings from Melville. Barrie states in the novel that "Hook was not his true name. To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze". He is said to be "Blackbeard's bo'sun" and "the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid". (In Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island", one of the names Long John Silver goes by is "Barbecue".) In the play, it is