Storybook International | |
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Also known as | Stories and Fables |
Genre | Fantasy |
Based on | Storybook International by Veronica Kruger |
Written by | Barry Levinson, Virginia Boston |
Directed by | Sebastian Robinson Peter Sasdy Andrew Grieve |
Narrated by | Claire Nielson Isla Blair Virginia Boston |
Theme music composer | Larry Grossman |
Opening theme | "The Storyteller" by Larry Grossman and Barry Levinson |
Composer | Larry Grossman |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 65 |
Production | |
Producer | Barry Levinson |
Editors | Viv Grant Dave Camps |
Running time | 26 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 31 July 1981 – 24 September 1987 |
Storybook International (also known as Stories and Fables) is a British children's television series, produced for ITV by Harlech Productions, a part of HTV and written by Barry Levinson and Virginia Boston. [1] The weekly, half-hour show was a collection of folk tales and fairy stories from all over the world, based on an anthology of stories for children published by Gollancz in 1981, edited by Veronica Kruger. [2]
Filmed in such locales as Russia, Ireland and Scandinavia, the series' live-action playlets were based on stories which originated in England, Czechoslovakia, France, Romania, Turkey, Wales, Israel, Norway, China, Africa, India and elsewhere. A few of the stories were campfire legends derived from the Native Americans of New England and the Maori of New Zealand.
First broadcast in 1981, [3] it consisted of 65 episodes, aired as three seasons. Although its distribution was originally confined to Britain and Europe, Storybook International enjoyed extensive cable play in the US, Scandinavia and the Middle East in subsequent decades. In 1984 they released Stories and Fables under Walt Disney Home Video. Fitfully released on VHS throughout the 1980s and 1990, the full series was finally made available on DVD in 2006. [4]
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