Born Free released in 1969. The film follows "Born Free"-actor Bill Travers as he journeys to a remote area in Kenya to visit George Adamson, and several of Adamson's lion friends. In 1974, a 13-episode American television series was broadcast by NBC, entitled "Born Free", starring Diana Muldaur and Gary Collins as Joy and George Adamson. The series was later followed by television film in 1996 called "", with Linda Purl and Chris Noth. Joy and George Adamson do not appear as the main characters in the story. "To Walk with Lions" (1999) depicts the last years of George Adamson's life, as
Bill Travers "Barretts" and "Seventh Sign" were notable flops - and enthusiasm for Travers in Hollywood cooled. Travers did "A Cook for Mr. General" for "Kraft Theatre" (1958) on TV. Then he returned to Britain. Travers and McKenna starred in a melodrama for the Rank Organisation, "Passionate Summer" (1958). He tried to get up a war film set in Greenland, "The Sledge Patrol", but it does not appear to have been made. He and Launder tried to repeat the success of "Geordie" with "The Bridal Path" (1960), but the film was not a success. Travers did "Born a Giant" for "Our American