Gulliver's Travels (1977 film) Gulliver's Travels (1977 film) Gulliver's Travels is a 1977 film based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift. It mixed live action and animation, and starred Richard Harris in the title role. The opening sequence in live action shows Gulliver announcing his intention to go to sea as a ship's surgeon, followed by scenes of a shipwreck. The remainder of the film has Harris on Lilliput and Blefuscu, with the tiny inhabitants created by animation. At the very end of the film, having escaped by boat from Lilliput, Gulliver encounters one of the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag,
Land of the Giants the first episode, "The Crash," take place (footage from the pilot, where "Spindrift" becomes lost, is included in this episode), creating a "Twilight Zone"-style twist ending, with the impression of a recurring cycle of inevitable events. This episode would have been more effective as the final episode of the season, mirroring Irwin Allen's earlier series "The Time Tunnel," in which the events of the final episode return the characters to their starting point in the pilot episode, "Rendezvous with Yesterday"; and "Land of the Giants" makes more sense with "Wild Journey" switched for "Graveyard of Fools" in reruns. The first