Faerie Tale Theatre

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Faerie Tale Theatre
The 6-DVD box set cover by Starmaker II.
Format	Fairytale fantasy
Created by	Shelley Duvall
Starring	Various
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	27 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Shelley Duvall
Running time	60 min.
Broadcast
Original channel	Showtime
Original run	September 11, 1982 – November 17, 1987
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Faerie Tale Theatre, fully Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, was a live action children's television series created by Shelley Duvall that ran from 1982 to 1987 retelling popular fairy tales. Shelley Duvall serves as narrator, host and executive producer of the program, and occasionally stars in episodes. The series was followed by another, shorter series called Tall Tales & Legends which followed the same format as Faerie Tale Theatre and focused on classic American folk tales. Both series feature well known actors and directors, and were inspired by the children's television series Shirley Temple Theatre (also known as The Shirley Temple Show and Shirley Temple's Storybook).

1 Home video and DVD releases
2 Episodes
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Home video and DVD releases

Faerie Tale Theatre was released on VHS in the late 1980s through mid 1990s, by Playhouse Video, CBS/Fox, and later Razz Ma Tazz Entertainment/Cabin Fever Entertainment.

From 2004 to 2006, Starmaker II released the DVD edition of the 26 episodes (in edited versions) separately at first, next as a collection set of 26 discs, then in a 4-disc box set, and later in a 6-disc box set. Koch Vision currently owns the distribution rights, and in November 2006 licensed the rights worldwide (excluding DVDs in North America) to the British company 3DD Entertainment. A new 7-disc box set will be released by Koch Vision on September 2, 2008.

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of Faerie Tale Theatre episodes

Every episode opens with Shelley Duvall introducing herself and welcoming the viewer to the show, after which she would provide a brief blurb of the story that would follow. All the episodes feature live action twist adaptations of fairy tales in costume by many well-known actors and are directed by such diverse directors as Tim Burton and Francis Ford Coppola. Most episodes feature backdrops and settings inspired by artwork by Maxfield Parrish, an American painter and children's book illustrator. Twenty-seven episodes were made in total, but only twenty-six episodes have been released on VHS and DVD so far. The nineteenth episode entitled "Faerie Tale Theatre: Greatest Moments" was formerly considered lost, but Koch Vision recently announced it would be part of their re-release in September. A fan from Canada was responsible for the inclusion of the episode^{[citation needed]}.