Wasn't it first televised in 1955? I was younger than 10, the first time I watched it. Thank you so much for uploading this! I thought I would never see it again. :)
I lived to watch Mary Martin in Peter Pan every year when I was a kid. At the end, it never failed. I would walk out of the room because I didn't want anyone to see me cry. It was when Mary Martin said: "You're too grown up". It made my cheeks soaking wet.
The saddest part for me is the moment Wendy stops Peter from giving her the pixie dust and teaching her how to fly again. The sad bewilderment on his face and the dawning horror that things can't be as they were....Mary Martin was FANTASTIC in portraying that.
omg, this brings back so many memories! I haven't seen this for at least 10 years; I'm 17 now and it still has the same magic it had when I was a kid. thank you so much for posting it, it really made my day! :)
I don't get it, why can't Wendy go to Neverland anyway? it's not like only kids get to go to Neverland, I mean, Captain Hook and his crew are all in Neverland and of course just like everybody, they'll never grow any old than the way they are.
@superpeace321 But it appears that Hook has been there since the creation of Neverland, so he is somewhat there by obligated rights. I comprehend your theory, but there are many back stories to why Wendy cannot go back, yet Hook and the Indian grown ups are always there.
Something I would like to know is how the children fall out of their prams as young babes yet are all about 6-12 years old when they are depicted. Now THAT is inexplicable.
This is soo much better than the disney version. we had both when i was little (only about 15 years ago - lol) and we watch this one so much that we wore out the tape! They had to go get it fixed or find a new one or something, because we weren't satisfied with the other one.
@pgy002 I... DONT WANT WANNA GROW UP or old, (I'm 14 already and soon be 15,) but I don't look nor act like a teenager. and my sister (who is 13) says I'm much more like a child than a grown up so.... I DONT WANNA GROW UP, I DONT WANNA GROW UP... NOT ME!
@kate2xtreme I dont feel so bad for her, she should've kept a good ting while she had it. It reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode Kick The Can. It was bad for one old man.
i find it quite sad that wendy grew up and peter couldent marry her. i always thought wendy was the love off peter. it kinda broke my heart when wendy said I AM MARRIED and THAT THE CHILD IN THE BED WAS HER'S. it also broke my heart when peter said ur too grown up to wendy. and when peter just ingnored wendy and flew away with jane. why couldent the endding be like this?: peter and the lost boys stayed with wendy and peter marriied wendy and they lived happily ever after. WHY? who wrote the book
@omgitsskyandces because Peter never loved Wendy that way. She was only a mother to him but she loved him in a bf/gf way. Peter wanted a mother not a wife.
@lilbl6 that reasoning was because of who wrote the book. the author at the time was friends to the little boys that helped him write the book and the father and he didnt get along so they made him captain hook. the history of this book is very interesting.
@lilbl6 yeah! i love that part of it. i think that in neverland, capt. hook is the ultimate evil because hes the head pirate, and that back at home, mr. darling is evil because he symbolizes everything it is to be grown up. in the first scene he is going to a fancy party, he always says "not so much nose now!" and he works in an office, etc. but i've never been able to figure out the ending.
@lilbl6 if mr. darling turns into the good guy when he adopts the lost boys, not the old, office worker, who hates too much noise, maybe it symbolizes that even the greatest evils, like capt. hook, can turn to good. its kind of romantic and maybe thats just what i'd like to think, but its a nice way of looking at it, and it makes sense considering the two characters are so paralleled.
Hook is dead, the pirates were probably incarcerated, the Lost Boys all ditched Peter and became adults, and it took Peter over 20 years before he came back for Wendy. Wouldn't Neverland eventually get boring without anyone to interact with?
@SquirrelyGirly42 True but I'd imagine the Indians still had to handle more adult tasks among themselves to be spending all of their days playing with Peter.
my mom always gets choked up when peter says, "you see wendy, you're too grown up." it's so sad :( i love this movie and it's a great one to grow up on. i'm gonna be showing it to my kids :) my mom grew up with it, my brother and i grew up with it, and my kids will. this a generation upon generation movie.
itz relly sad if u think abt. wendy was like 15, then never saw peter agian till she was over 20. sad rite? and peter lied. he sed he wud visit her every year. but he never did....
i was bill jukes in this production of peter pan at my camp and i was nana for about the week but then my legs hur so i had to drop out of that roll into an indian
No, you're right; it isn't. If you really pay attention to this story, you'll find it's beautiful because it's sad. I didn't used to think so, but it really is depressing.
This production must have been a creative and physical challenge for Mary Martin who was also starring on Broadway in "The Sound Of Music", during the taping of this 1960 version. As I recall, she shot the taped version of Peter Pan during the day while doing the full run of Sound of Music at night. They did this version because color video tape was not available for the 2 earlier versions. ...Rowby
I have just looked this show up on Wikipedia. It says that most of the adult cast was unchanged in 1960 (from c. 1955), but the children's parts are played by different actors because the earlier ones had grown out of those roles. In 1960, that is Maureen Bailey as BOTH young Wendy and Jane; Peggy Maurer comes in to play the grown Wendy.
I absolutely love this version of Peter Pan. Hands down, it's my favourite version. I had this on video when I was young, and we've still got the soundtrack around somewhere.
I also think, to some extent, I never grew out of it, in more ways than one. I still enjoy this, but I even more enjoy Doctor Who, which I have decided is the grown-up version of Peter Pan.
I'd love to see someone do a Doctor Who music video for Never Neverland and its reprise.
This color, videotaped-edited version is a wonderful classic, but the LIVE versions broadcast in '55 & '56 are better [the cast was 5-years younger & fresh from B'way], especially Wendy [played magnificently by Kathy Nolan]. Most original B'way cast-members are in these 2 kinescopes. There was no editing.. it was LIVE TV! Incredible!!
I absolutely have always loved this movie! I felt it was the best version of peter pan ever! This ending scene always makes me cry, because I realize like wendy,we all have to grow up someday :( but neva to forget our inner child and youth. Once innocence is lost,we can neva get it back.......hopefully one day,we can all experience never land! :)
yes its the same actress. i dont think they did that in the original broadway production though. they had a differnet actress play jane and an older wendy.
ur thinking hook...but they did not get married peter would come back to listen to stories and soon her wanted to just stay and wendy i think adopted him and he married eventually and had two children when hook went ahead and stle them and peter was reminded of his child hood etc.
Thanks for informing me. I have read the book, but that was a looooooooooong time ago, so my memories of what happened in it are very minimal. Does it explain why Tinkerbell was hanging out with them in the first place? (A question that just occurred to me xD; )
i kno...he was all like "you can't" eh...what the bejeebas was wrong with him...its like once she grew up he was all "eh ur nt wrth it" -rolls eyes- but thats a boy for u.
thanks for posting... i love this movie! i used to watch this before like everyday... and know the lines word for word... i used to sing "tender shepherd" everynight before tucking me to bed.. aww! thanks again!
I was bullied mercilessly for enjoying this and the Disney version so much as a kid. I was so wounded inside I couldn't even say the name Peter Pan. But now that I'm a free man I don't care what any of my old classmates said, if I want to watch this I'm going to do it.
Peter Pan never gets old. The story, I mean. People still love it because it's so much more than just a fairytale for kids. It can be appreciated mostly for its pure magic, of course, but this work of genius also has many layers, when you just care enough to look for deeper meanings (which those who make fun of it surely haven't understood).
Last time I watched this, I was crying by the end, as I realized that I had been denied the promised land of Neverland. All because I had grown up. I'm 19 btw.
No one is ever denied the magic of Neverland. Ohh,we may grow too old to visit, but remember what the narrator says at the start, "We are only passing in these years from one room to another", and through wonderful things like this film, we are allowed a glimpse back at the magic. And don't think that Wendy no longer has magic in her life; she has had her turn at childhood magic, and now it is her time for the magic of adulthood, passion and parenthood. Everything in it's time.
I wish the DVD wasn't out of print, this was one of my favorite movies from when I was a kid. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for this production.
Wow. This is seriously depressing when you watch it again after you're all grown up with a job and apartment and all that crap. I still believe in fairies though....*sighs, feels older than she should*
If I remember correctly this was re-aired in the late 80's after the Golden Girls(or before) It was late afternoon when i saw this. My Mother forced me to watch this back then and I can never forget that day.....for me Peter pan was magic and I knew I would never grow up. I watched this on NBC(i think) and I remember grabbing my bunny doll and leaping on to the bed thinking happy thoughts hoping to fly...OH youth! I miss you!
Thank you so much for posting this! I rememeber wanting to rent this over and over again...such a sad ending. I guess we all have to grow up sometime...
You know.. I had no idea this was this old. I'm 18 now and I watched it when I was little, not realizing that it was that old..but I had the VHS. But now that I watch it again there are a lot of things that don't make sense to me. Like what was the point of the "crow," what was the point in Wendy saying "Poor Wendy" when she was about to land in NeverLand, and why was the housekeeper not too old to go but Wendy is now? I also never realized the father was Captain Hook, lol. Thanks for uploading!
I suspect that the housekeeper was allowed into Neverland because she was not married, and had no children. Wendy now has a husband, and is part of the adult world.
I'm so grateful that this was put up. It brought back wonderful memories. I'm 62 now, but as a child, this production was my favorite. My friend got to see the Broadway play and her parents bought her the soundtrack album. I was ever so jealous, but we listened to that record over and over and learned all the words so we could play "Neverland", our favorite pretend game. What a joy to see it again. Nobody can play Peter like Mary Martin did.
I prefer the 1955 original tv broadcast even though it was in b/w. The actress playing Wendy was better and Mary Martin was five years younger and it showed.
I was four years old in 1955. What memories this brings back, I guess for all of us. It's amazing how much we have in common. This was always on at holiday time and brought a sense of anticipation every year. It brings home to me how much I miss my mother! Perhaps that's why Barrie wrote it(the book is much darker and sarcastic than the stage version, which he wrote first).
Thank you so much for putting the videos up! I haven't seen this in forever and it reminds me of being a kid. I loved it then and I still love it now!
I first saw this version when I was 10 (thinking I was a bit old for such things) and loving it nonetheless. At 57, I'm sitting here with a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye (and still I think I'm a bit old for such things). I guess the body ages but the heart will stay as young as you'll allow it to be. Thanks so much for letting me realize that once more.
I read the original play and it's really great and all, but J.M. Barrie wrote a short play called When Wendy Grew Up and when i read that, it made me feel really sad inside. It's the same ending like this one, except there's more dialogue that makes it so dramatic but really good. You can order the original play at amazon. It's called Peter Pan and Other Plays.
I remember watching this movie when was, like, three. I'm twenty now, so it's been a long time.
And, yes, I think that was the same guy playing Mr. Darling and Captain Hook.
OneStringedHarp 1 week ago
I <3 Michael!!! hes sooo cute<3
katesingactdance 2 months ago
In the cathy rigby version mrs. darling also plays a mermaid.
katesingactdance 2 months ago
pan is a wicked boy
you are never too old to fly, dream or crow
brabon1 2 months ago
Is anyone else reminded of Dr. Who with the eleventh Doctor? haha. Wendy, the Girl Who Waited. ;)
MissSpock709 2 months ago
are captain hook and mr. george darling played by the same actor? they look very similar!
Irenerz 3 months ago
@Irenerz yes.
brabon1 2 months ago
@Irenerz yes they are
timmy1818able 1 month ago
Did anyont notice that Jane is the same person who played Wendy as a child
ThePinkladies18 3 months ago 2
@ThePinkladies18 That's the idea.
Juliaflo 3 months ago
Thanks so much for posting this version on Peter Pan. My grandparents use to play the record for me as a special treat. Very nostalgic for me.
muzzybubbuh 4 months ago
Peter Pans son never learned to fly He learned to run a Texas oil Company
Rollman1 4 months ago
Peter like to hear stories Tiger Lillie told Peter how she won at the Battle of the Little Big Horn Custers Last Stand
Rollman1 4 months ago
To bad Oliver Twist dident get to meet Peter Pan first before he met the Artful Dodger
Rollman1 4 months ago
PPAN@NEVERLANDCOM
Rollman1 4 months ago
Wendy waited for Peter for so long She nor tryed sending him an E mail
Rollman1 4 months ago
Peter Pan /Michel Jackson
Rollman1 5 months ago
Why did it take Pter so long till he came back for Wendy ? Who was left in Never Land for Peter to have fun with ? Michael Jackson?
Rollman1 5 months ago
I'm OLD...ever so much more than twenty. Oh, you're so old, Wendy.
IWillBeHers 5 months ago
And then Peter grew up, found a magic police box, and changed his name to the Doctor.
VulcanTrekkie45 6 months ago 2
@VulcanTrekkie45 WHO you talkin bout?
Rollman1 4 months ago
WOW thank you so mich for uploading this masterpiece! i used to own it in vhs but i lost it and i never thought i would see it again! i love you! -3
ohdezflores 7 months ago
windy has a child o my goodness
and her name is ... JANE
what dos lol mean
Percegal14 8 months ago
@Percegal14 lol-means laugh out loud
LoveAlwaysHopes100 5 months ago
Wasn't it first televised in 1955? I was younger than 10, the first time I watched it. Thank you so much for uploading this! I thought I would never see it again. :)
HRW1940 8 months ago
I lived to watch Mary Martin in Peter Pan every year when I was a kid. At the end, it never failed. I would walk out of the room because I didn't want anyone to see me cry. It was when Mary Martin said: "You're too grown up". It made my cheeks soaking wet.
bennettsilverstein 8 months ago
I always hate Wendy! She left Peter and take away lost boys with her! I am on Tinkerbell's side!;) Thanks the film! I've never seen this before!;)
SerizawaM 9 months ago
The saddest part for me is the moment Wendy stops Peter from giving her the pixie dust and teaching her how to fly again. The sad bewilderment on his face and the dawning horror that things can't be as they were....Mary Martin was FANTASTIC in portraying that.
Tabi921 9 months ago 3
omg, this brings back so many memories! I haven't seen this for at least 10 years; I'm 17 now and it still has the same magic it had when I was a kid. thank you so much for posting it, it really made my day! :)
TechieNinja18 10 months ago
I don't get it, why can't Wendy go to Neverland anyway? it's not like only kids get to go to Neverland, I mean, Captain Hook and his crew are all in Neverland and of course just like everybody, they'll never grow any old than the way they are.
superpeace321 10 months ago
@superpeace321 But it appears that Hook has been there since the creation of Neverland, so he is somewhat there by obligated rights. I comprehend your theory, but there are many back stories to why Wendy cannot go back, yet Hook and the Indian grown ups are always there.
Something I would like to know is how the children fall out of their prams as young babes yet are all about 6-12 years old when they are depicted. Now THAT is inexplicable.
RikuClaimsRoxas 9 months ago
It always broke my heart when Peter came back the second time...
oT1eMoRoKProductions 11 months ago
This is soo much better than the disney version. we had both when i was little (only about 15 years ago - lol) and we watch this one so much that we wore out the tape! They had to go get it fixed or find a new one or something, because we weren't satisfied with the other one.
MarieMoondust 11 months ago
WOAH! I JUST REALIZED THAT GEORGE AND CAPTIAN HOOK ARE THE SAME PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!
GeneKellylover1 1 year ago
Childhood is truly the best time of life. Kids wanna grow up SO BAD, then after they do they wanna be young again.
pgy002 1 year ago 17
@pgy002 I... DONT WANT WANNA GROW UP or old, (I'm 14 already and soon be 15,) but I don't look nor act like a teenager. and my sister (who is 13) says I'm much more like a child than a grown up so.... I DONT WANNA GROW UP, I DONT WANNA GROW UP... NOT ME!
superpeace321 10 months ago
i always felt bad for wendy :(
kate2xtreme 1 year ago
@kate2xtreme I dont feel so bad for her, she should've kept a good ting while she had it. It reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode Kick The Can. It was bad for one old man.
pgy002 1 year ago
"yes peter, will you teach me how to dougie??"
rachellynnlovee 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading these. That brought back some wonderful memories.
willrothfuss 1 year ago 2
@willrothfuss agreed. thank you sfuvs.
boardDF 1 year ago
man, you all are too old for this! stop analyzing it and use your ~*imagination*~ a little!!!
thisheartisfluid 1 year ago 3
Love the arrangement at 6:45 gorgeous
ScrapNfight 1 year ago
Quivers with feeling starting between 2:00 and 2:46. That part really gets to me.
ScrapNfight 1 year ago 2
i find it quite sad that wendy grew up and peter couldent marry her. i always thought wendy was the love off peter. it kinda broke my heart when wendy said I AM MARRIED and THAT THE CHILD IN THE BED WAS HER'S. it also broke my heart when peter said ur too grown up to wendy. and when peter just ingnored wendy and flew away with jane. why couldent the endding be like this?: peter and the lost boys stayed with wendy and peter marriied wendy and they lived happily ever after. WHY? who wrote the book
omgitsskyandces 1 year ago
@omgitsskyandces because Peter never loved Wendy that way. She was only a mother to him but she loved him in a bf/gf way. Peter wanted a mother not a wife.
donaldnewton58 10 months ago
@donaldnewton58 good point...but still.
omgitsskyandces 10 months ago
Have u ever noticed that the same guy even in the cartoon plays as Capt Hook and Mr. Darling???
lilbl6 1 year ago
@lilbl6 that reasoning was because of who wrote the book. the author at the time was friends to the little boys that helped him write the book and the father and he didnt get along so they made him captain hook. the history of this book is very interesting.
maginican 1 year ago
@lilbl6 yeah! i love that part of it. i think that in neverland, capt. hook is the ultimate evil because hes the head pirate, and that back at home, mr. darling is evil because he symbolizes everything it is to be grown up. in the first scene he is going to a fancy party, he always says "not so much nose now!" and he works in an office, etc. but i've never been able to figure out the ending.
boardDF 1 year ago
@lilbl6 if mr. darling turns into the good guy when he adopts the lost boys, not the old, office worker, who hates too much noise, maybe it symbolizes that even the greatest evils, like capt. hook, can turn to good. its kind of romantic and maybe thats just what i'd like to think, but its a nice way of looking at it, and it makes sense considering the two characters are so paralleled.
boardDF 1 year ago
@boardDF Yea u might be right
lilbl6 1 year ago
I could never figure out why they still had the boys' beds when there was only Jane left.
TheBookWorm1718 1 year ago
Hook is dead, the pirates were probably incarcerated, the Lost Boys all ditched Peter and became adults, and it took Peter over 20 years before he came back for Wendy. Wouldn't Neverland eventually get boring without anyone to interact with?
FBB87 1 year ago
@FBB87 peter still had the indians to hang around with.
SquirrelyGirly42 1 year ago
@SquirrelyGirly42 True but I'd imagine the Indians still had to handle more adult tasks among themselves to be spending all of their days playing with Peter.
FBB87 1 year ago
@FBB87 did u forget about tinkerbell and the iadians?
omgitsskyandces 1 year ago
@FBB87 maybe it was like the movie Hook; new lost boys came to Neverland
14Pipeline3000 1 year ago
@FBB87 Tiger LIlie still lived there
Rollman1 4 months ago
Wait, thats the same girl isnt it? Wendy and Jane are the same person? I feel hecka stupid now. I never noticed that!
princessUSA2 1 year ago
Deja Vu!
etb1244 1 year ago
its so funny that the dad can fit in the dog's house
etb1244 1 year ago
<3 Love this movie.
angelcarnivore 1 year ago 2
Thus ends the greatest telling of Peter Pan ever
Drunkenprophet23 1 year ago 11
So how many days passed or is neverland in an alternative time zone?
TreesOfBaylor 1 year ago
my mom always gets choked up when peter says, "you see wendy, you're too grown up." it's so sad :( i love this movie and it's a great one to grow up on. i'm gonna be showing it to my kids :) my mom grew up with it, my brother and i grew up with it, and my kids will. this a generation upon generation movie.
jooodlez 1 year ago
bwahaha the kids come home and then the dad comes out of the doghouse?? LOL random as hell
AngylCourt 1 year ago
"Your too grown up" Translation: "Sorry Wendy,I like my girls young and not old"
And that sad look on Wendy's face says..."damn that bitch,he's right" LOL
Argocity2006 1 year ago
This ending is very better then a Disney ending. It's made me happy.
42whatelse 1 year ago 2
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
=)
LilKP423 1 year ago
this was a real blessing to me! thank you for posting all of the videos!
modeldestanee 1 year ago
amazon has this on dvd
redeye007 1 year ago
itz relly sad if u think abt. wendy was like 15, then never saw peter agian till she was over 20. sad rite? and peter lied. he sed he wud visit her every year. but he never did....
Summerluver100 1 year ago
It would be a coup if John Hurt could play Mr. Darling/Captain Hook in a remake. Those of you in agreement, raise your hand.
Juliaflo 1 year ago
thank you to who ever posted it. i still LOVE it! : )
ieatoreos 1 year ago
so many memories.......oh how i wish never never land was real!
littlechildofgod 1 year ago
we r doing a play 4 this in skool, i got the part of peter pan! :) (well, i think) (i did get a callback) (we find out who gets the part on Tuesday)
Emily4556789 2 years ago 2
@Emily4556789 so, didja def get the part?
sanders22158 1 year ago
i was bill jukes in this production of peter pan at my camp and i was nana for about the week but then my legs hur so i had to drop out of that roll into an indian
cookidoh093 2 years ago
@cookidoh093
No, you're right; it isn't. If you really pay attention to this story, you'll find it's beautiful because it's sad. I didn't used to think so, but it really is depressing.
iamnowchristine 2 years ago
I thought Peter Pan's reaction to Wendy growing up was funny and I laughed at that which may not be a good thing.
andrewcolinwilson 2 years ago
This production must have been a creative and physical challenge for Mary Martin who was also starring on Broadway in "The Sound Of Music", during the taping of this 1960 version. As I recall, she shot the taped version of Peter Pan during the day while doing the full run of Sound of Music at night. They did this version because color video tape was not available for the 2 earlier versions. ...Rowby
rowbyrowby 2 years ago
As much as I love this movie it's sad how much sexism and ageism is in it... well thats 1960 for you
Ilovecake2 2 years ago
And racism . . . lots of isms. But it's just so, so classic, and I just watched the whole thing and cried about four times.
fookyourmum 1 year ago
I have just looked this show up on Wikipedia. It says that most of the adult cast was unchanged in 1960 (from c. 1955), but the children's parts are played by different actors because the earlier ones had grown out of those roles. In 1960, that is Maureen Bailey as BOTH young Wendy and Jane; Peggy Maurer comes in to play the grown Wendy.
carlmoore19 2 years ago
This version is wonderfull... is also my favorite. Thanks and congratulation for posted it
nandor41 2 years ago 3
I absolutely love this version of Peter Pan. Hands down, it's my favourite version. I had this on video when I was young, and we've still got the soundtrack around somewhere.
I also think, to some extent, I never grew out of it, in more ways than one. I still enjoy this, but I even more enjoy Doctor Who, which I have decided is the grown-up version of Peter Pan.
I'd love to see someone do a Doctor Who music video for Never Neverland and its reprise.
VulcanTrekkie45 2 years ago 3
This color, videotaped-edited version is a wonderful classic, but the LIVE versions broadcast in '55 & '56 are better [the cast was 5-years younger & fresh from B'way], especially Wendy [played magnificently by Kathy Nolan]. Most original B'way cast-members are in these 2 kinescopes. There was no editing.. it was LIVE TV! Incredible!!
rodanvideo 2 years ago
I absolutely have always loved this movie! I felt it was the best version of peter pan ever! This ending scene always makes me cry, because I realize like wendy,we all have to grow up someday :( but neva to forget our inner child and youth. Once innocence is lost,we can neva get it back.......hopefully one day,we can all experience never land! :)
MissJones1223 2 years ago 2
ive wanted to know, is Jane the same actress as Wendy??
Rayman122109 2 years ago
yes its the same actress. i dont think they did that in the original broadway production though. they had a differnet actress play jane and an older wendy.
faggyboy2 2 years ago
oh ok.
Rayman122109 2 years ago
On B'way, Kathy Nolan played both Wendy & Jane; Sally Brophy played Wendy [Grown-up].
rodanvideo 2 years ago
grr i wish wendy wouldve gone
ichatwithyou 2 years ago 3
I'd be a little pissed off being the husband having my wife tell me she just let some guy from her childhood fly off with my daughter.
How long is spring cleaning, a week two weeks?
Why would dirt and dust exist in Neverland?
hadassah179 2 years ago 4
@hadassah179 Guess some one has to clean up all the fairy dust that gets towsed around . Peter - " Come on Jane i need a new house Nigga"
Rollman1 4 months ago
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ha! This is weird! The dude's a girl :P lol
FiLiPiNOBaBii 2 years ago
thats actually a tradition ever since peter pan play started and its been a tradition still today (thesides disney peter pan and the movie)
SxyChicDisney 2 years ago
wow the father agrees awfully fast... lmao
natalya82 2 years ago 3
@natalya82 Bigger tax write off
Rollman1 4 months ago
"We have no room to spare, it's true... But oh, what of it, we'll pretend we do!"
QueenXofXSpades2 2 years ago 2
This is a fantastic example of a fantasic fairytale that will never die.
Boonedaba 2 years ago 2
The cops come and ask "Are you responsible for the kidnapping of these 6 children?".
Mom says "no"
Cops- "then where did they come from?"
Mom- "the sky"
Cop whispers, " I think we need to take this one in"
csjacksparrow 2 years ago 45
@csjacksparrow haha
zacefron900 1 year ago
I loved this when I was little! I can't find it anymore!!! =(!
Seddiealltheyway 2 years ago
I have this on VHS. Interesting my 4 and 7 year olds love it. No high tech gadgetry needed.
cojute06 2 years ago 2
Thank you soo much for posting!!!
jengirl2 2 years ago
which is the one where wendy and peter get married? i cant remember its name...
HMforeva 2 years ago
ur thinking hook...but they did not get married peter would come back to listen to stories and soon her wanted to just stay and wendy i think adopted him and he married eventually and had two children when hook went ahead and stle them and peter was reminded of his child hood etc.
JudeHarrison0289 2 years ago
ok, thnx :)
HMforeva 2 years ago
What happened to Tinkerbell? O_O SCANDAL! :P
wolfsoda 2 years ago
if you read the old book the original you find out that Faires dont live long and that she dies of ld age
yamikun0yaoi 2 years ago
Thanks for informing me. I have read the book, but that was a looooooooooong time ago, so my memories of what happened in it are very minimal. Does it explain why Tinkerbell was hanging out with them in the first place? (A question that just occurred to me xD; )
wolfsoda 2 years ago
Those of you who would like to see John Hurt in the part of Mr. Darling in a revival....raise your hand.
Juliaflo 2 years ago
"You're too grown up."
Feh,I woulda took his wire cable off him and shoved him out the window. Lol
EnvysGirl01 2 years ago 31
HAHA~ genius idea.
iAsian92 2 years ago
@EnvysGirl01 LOL!
Argocity2006 1 year ago
Jane looked just like Wendy when Peter first met her and she even slept in the same bed that Wendy used to when Peter first met her.
andrewcolinwilson 2 years ago
same actress
Rayman122109 2 years ago
ok actually watching this again made me sad because peter totally didn't care about wendy, not really...
and he never learned to grow up.
i feel like crying.
teafountains 2 years ago
Yeah it's like, "Uh..okay?" XD
iAsian92 2 years ago
i kno...he was all like "you can't" eh...what the bejeebas was wrong with him...its like once she grew up he was all "eh ur nt wrth it" -rolls eyes- but thats a boy for u.
JudeHarrison0289 2 years ago
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teafountains 2 years ago
I'm EVER so much more than twenty and I'm all choked up the way I was when I last saw this aired on tv when I was little.
The end always leaves a big lump in my throat.
I've never been so happy to see something posted to YouTube.
missbhavens 3 years ago
that was kind of harsh the way peter just dumped wendy lol
boomboom122 3 years ago 5
yea, i guess the movie ended in a happy way for peter, but not really for wendy. i dont think i quite saw it that way when i watched this growing up.
EmilyShepherd 3 years ago 2
"To live will be an awfully big adventure"
batgirl1415 3 years ago 3
i was told that liza has the scenes in neverland because she was mary martin's daughter, and it was part of the contract or something like that....
IrishMobBoss04 3 years ago
Actually, Liza the maid isnt played by Mary Martin's daughter whose real name is Heller Halliday, but actually played by Jacqueline Mayro.
14Waverider14 3 years ago
Heller Halliday played Liza in the original 1955 version both on Broadway and on live TV but not in this version, which was taped in 1960.
bingo90272 3 years ago
,,,,The one who played Liza in the 1960 version was Jacqueline Mayro.
Juliaflo 2 years ago
umm y the heck are wendy and jane the same people
clc33123 3 years ago
thanks for posting... i love this movie! i used to watch this before like everyday... and know the lines word for word... i used to sing "tender shepherd" everynight before tucking me to bed.. aww! thanks again!
jhunelle2006 3 years ago
"What's another six or seven?"
A lot less noise over there...
MerSilver13 3 years ago 6
It breaks my herat that Wendy doesn't get to go back... *sob*
Oh well, I still really like the show!
lizzandclairehb 3 years ago 2
"Oh Nana, it breaks my heart too...but they'll never come back, never." LOL! I'm glad that she didn't give up hope on her own children!! LOL!
higgyboy21 3 years ago 2
I was bullied mercilessly for enjoying this and the Disney version so much as a kid. I was so wounded inside I couldn't even say the name Peter Pan. But now that I'm a free man I don't care what any of my old classmates said, if I want to watch this I'm going to do it.
PTSmash 3 years ago 7
Hurray! Well said! :D
Peter Pan never gets old. The story, I mean. People still love it because it's so much more than just a fairytale for kids. It can be appreciated mostly for its pure magic, of course, but this work of genius also has many layers, when you just care enough to look for deeper meanings (which those who make fun of it surely haven't understood).
Faunatik 3 years ago 2
Wow I remember watching this when I was a kid
animegirl677 3 years ago 2
I love this film, but the end Peter was a bit mean. "You're too grown up."
That was a old-school diss if I ever heard one. Trading the mom in for the daughter.
butterflyblue84 3 years ago 3
Im so happy you put this on youtube i lost my copy
MovieDudeProductions 3 years ago
wendy plays both little girls haha
marjiew 3 years ago
Last time I watched this, I was crying by the end, as I realized that I had been denied the promised land of Neverland. All because I had grown up. I'm 19 btw.
VulcanTrekkie45 3 years ago 4
Glad to know I'm not the only one that cries at the end!
VictoriaWinters1991 3 years ago 3
No one is ever denied the magic of Neverland. Ohh,we may grow too old to visit, but remember what the narrator says at the start, "We are only passing in these years from one room to another", and through wonderful things like this film, we are allowed a glimpse back at the magic. And don't think that Wendy no longer has magic in her life; she has had her turn at childhood magic, and now it is her time for the magic of adulthood, passion and parenthood. Everything in it's time.
GenLovesBroadway 3 years ago 7
Only SIX lost boys? In the production in Vista CA there were at least 30!!
mediumdietcoke 3 years ago
amazing
this is acting
beautiful work,
im playing peter pan tomorrow, and i hope i can do well!
elliottstanley 3 years ago
I wish the DVD wasn't out of print, this was one of my favorite movies from when I was a kid. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for this production.
herinceemyn 3 years ago 3
I am doing this show its soooooo much fun!!
tangerinecandiexoxo 3 years ago
Wow. This is seriously depressing when you watch it again after you're all grown up with a job and apartment and all that crap. I still believe in fairies though....*sighs, feels older than she should*
PhantomessOfDoom 3 years ago 2
If I remember correctly this was re-aired in the late 80's after the Golden Girls(or before) It was late afternoon when i saw this. My Mother forced me to watch this back then and I can never forget that day.....for me Peter pan was magic and I knew I would never grow up. I watched this on NBC(i think) and I remember grabbing my bunny doll and leaping on to the bed thinking happy thoughts hoping to fly...OH youth! I miss you!
themadmanbreen 3 years ago
Thank you so much for posting this! I rememeber wanting to rent this over and over again...such a sad ending. I guess we all have to grow up sometime...
Thanks again!
mystmaker 3 years ago
You know.. I had no idea this was this old. I'm 18 now and I watched it when I was little, not realizing that it was that old..but I had the VHS. But now that I watch it again there are a lot of things that don't make sense to me. Like what was the point of the "crow," what was the point in Wendy saying "Poor Wendy" when she was about to land in NeverLand, and why was the housekeeper not too old to go but Wendy is now? I also never realized the father was Captain Hook, lol. Thanks for uploading!
OneLitFirefly 3 years ago
I don't think any of these things have to do with it's age.
Even the 2003 version had it's moments.
However, if you think that this is "that old", I hope it hasn't hindered you from watching other great things that are just as old or older than this.
P.S. I am not much older than you.
snowwhiterosered 3 years ago
I suspect that the housekeeper was allowed into Neverland because she was not married, and had no children. Wendy now has a husband, and is part of the adult world.
GenLovesBroadway 3 years ago
I'm so grateful that this was put up. It brought back wonderful memories. I'm 62 now, but as a child, this production was my favorite. My friend got to see the Broadway play and her parents bought her the soundtrack album. I was ever so jealous, but we listened to that record over and over and learned all the words so we could play "Neverland", our favorite pretend game. What a joy to see it again. Nobody can play Peter like Mary Martin did.
Andrea2354 3 years ago 2
I prefer the 2003 edition with Jeremy Sumpter
FaithChick18 3 years ago
omg is wendy played by a 30 year old as a girl???
dramakittymeow 3 years ago
I prefer the 1955 original tv broadcast even though it was in b/w. The actress playing Wendy was better and Mary Martin was five years younger and it showed.
patriciaoday 3 years ago
The actress who played Wendy in the 1955 broadcast was Kathy Nolan, who later starred in The Real McCoys.
Let me see, Mary Martin also did a little thing called 'The Sound of Music' a few years later.
Juliaflo 3 years ago
i just got this on dvd
redeye007 3 years ago
Kind of a sad ending, poor Wendy.
suzyloowho2 3 years ago 2
Yeah, he was evil to her
narniaiscool 3 years ago
thanks for putting these up. i have the show, but only on VHS. this brings back so many childhood memories
youdontknowjack24 4 years ago
YAAAAAY ENCORE!
suchWeird 4 years ago
I was four years old in 1955. What memories this brings back, I guess for all of us. It's amazing how much we have in common. This was always on at holiday time and brought a sense of anticipation every year. It brings home to me how much I miss my mother! Perhaps that's why Barrie wrote it(the book is much darker and sarcastic than the stage version, which he wrote first).
jimjjp 4 years ago
Amazing to see that this video has so many memories for so many people.
Not bad for an almost 48-year-old video of a production originally staged for tv in 1955.
And videotaped in Brooklyn not Burbank or Manhattan, believe it or else.
dw438 4 years ago
this makes me cry.
timmchap35 4 years ago 2
thanks a million !! This was one of my favorite movies as a kid... i love it !!
brigita33 4 years ago
Thank you so much for putting the videos up! I haven't seen this in forever and it reminds me of being a kid. I loved it then and I still love it now!
fickleheart 4 years ago 3
I know in the Disney sequel, he meets Jane, but since she's dealing with the happenings of WWII, she doesn't believe in magic...
LaDracul 4 years ago
interesting...
lisababy85 4 years ago
I first saw this version when I was 10 (thinking I was a bit old for such things) and loving it nonetheless. At 57, I'm sitting here with a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye (and still I think I'm a bit old for such things). I guess the body ages but the heart will stay as young as you'll allow it to be. Thanks so much for letting me realize that once more.
jayplays 4 years ago 5
Wow,I got choked up.
dukeyflyswatter 4 years ago
I read the original play and it's really great and all, but J.M. Barrie wrote a short play called When Wendy Grew Up and when i read that, it made me feel really sad inside. It's the same ending like this one, except there's more dialogue that makes it so dramatic but really good. You can order the original play at amazon. It's called Peter Pan and Other Plays.
shaneoisin 4 years ago
this makes me soooo happy/sad! I'm almost crying! No... wait... I am crying..... Whaaaaaaa
eponine13thenard 4 years ago
Wow..I had never seen this..It was so adorable and beautiful..^^ Thank you for uploading it!
Silverpaw15 4 years ago
this part always made me so sad. lol @ " im old peter , im ever so much more than 20" like cause after 20 is considered old?
adamwonderstar 4 years ago