<Li> In a 1988 issue of Boys' Life, the Dink & Duff comic strip has the African - American Cub Scout Dink pondering the meaning of Americanism, only to lapse into a coma and awaken in 2068 . A boy who addresses him as "Rip van Dinkle" explains that during the past 80 years the United States has been replaced by an authoritarian monarchy . Dink eventually awakens back in 1988 . </Li> <Ul> <Li> The story was adapted twice for Kraft Television Theatre, once in 1950 with Lawrence Fletcher and once in 1953 with Raymond Bramley . </Li> <Li> E.G. Marshall played the title character in a 1958 episode of Shirley Temple's Storybook . </Li> <Li> The TV show Wishbone showed the dog imagining himself as the title character, complete with the men playing nine - pins and his mistaking the George Washington Inn for his old hangout, the King George Inn . </Li> <Li> Harry Dean Stanton played the title role in the 1987 Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends episode directed by Francis Ford Coppola . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The story was adapted twice for Kraft Television Theatre, once in 1950 with Lawrence Fletcher and once in 1953 with Raymond Bramley . </Li> <Li> E.G. Marshall played the title character in a 1958 episode of Shirley Temple's Storybook . </Li>

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