Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

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| image = VHS cover Mayflower The Pilgrims' Adventure.jpg

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| caption = VHS cover from 1999

| genre = Adventure
History

| creator =

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| writer =

| screenplay = James Lee Barrett

| story =

| director = George Schaefer

| starring = Anthony Hopkins
Richard Crenna
Jenny Agutter

| narrated =

| theme_music_composer = Brad Fiedel

| country = United States

| language = English

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| executive_producer = Linda Yellen

| producer = Linda Yellen

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| cinematography = Arthur J. Ornitz

| editor = Eric Albertson

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| runtime = 100 min.

| company = Szygzy Productions

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| network = CBS

| released = {{Start date|1979|11|21}}

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Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure is a 1979 American made-for-television historical adventure film dramatizing the Pilgrims' voyage from Plymouth, England to Cape Cod in New England aboard the Mayflower in 1620. The film was directed by George Schaefer and stars Anthony Hopkins, Richard Crenna, and Jenny Agutter.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&pg=PA517 |title=Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors |last=Roberts |first=Jerry |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810863781 |page=517 |date=June 5, 2009 |access-date=September 7, 2017 |via=Google Books}}

The story focuses on romantic interactions between the passengers and crew,{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xB1rhm6Ke2UC&pg=PA448 |title=The Columbia Companion to American History on Film |chapter=Places |editor-last=Rollins |editor-first=Peter C. |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231112222 |page=148 |year=2003 |access-date=September 7, 2017 |via=Google Books}} with People describing it as "plotted like a pre-shuffleboard Love Boat".{{Cite magazine |url=http://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-mayflower-the-pilgrims-adventure-vol-12-no-22/ |title=Picks and Pans Review: Mayflower: the Pilgrims' Adventure |magazine=People |date=November 26, 1979 |access-date=September 7, 2017}}

The film was first broadcast by CBS on November 21, 1979.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/21/archives/tv-pilgrims-adventure.html |title=TV: Pilgrims' Adventure |last=Buckley |first=Tom |work=The New York Times |date=November 21, 1979 |access-date=September 7, 2017}}