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Shirley Temple's Storybook

1958 · 2 seasons · 41 episodes · Ended · NBC

Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

TMDB 6.5 · 6 votes

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Shirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by actress Shirley Temple. The series features adaptations of fairy tales like Mother Goose and other family-oriented stories performed by well-known actors, although one episode, an adaptation of The House of the Seven Gables, was meant for older youngsters. Temple's three children made their acting debuts in the last episode of the first season, "Mother Goose".

Episodes

  • S01E01Beauty and the Beast1958-01-1260m

    Based on the novel by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, a merchant must give up one of his three daughters, or he will lose his life. Beauty sacrifices herself and so the story continues.

  • S01E02Rumpelstiltskin1958-02-0260m

    The miller Hanz Franz has bragged to one and all that his daughter Elsa can spin straw into gold. The poor girl is spirited away by the Royal Tax Collector Lord Karsch and locked in a room in the palace of the King.

  • S01E03The Nightingale1958-02-1860m

    The oppressed Chinese peasants and woodsmen have only one consolation -- the beautiful song of a nightingale. But word of this unusual bird reaches the emperor, who promptly orders it brought from the woods to the palace.

  • S01E04The Legend of Sleepy Hollow1958-03-0560m
  • S01E05Dick Wittington and His Cat1958-03-2360m
  • S01E06The Land of Green Ginger1958-04-1860m

    Abu Ali, son of the Emperor of China, Aladdin, is unable to choose a bride. Help comes from the genie of the Magic Lamp.

  • S01E07Rip Van Winkle1958-05-0660m

    Rip Van Winkle wanders off to a mountain haunt in the Catskills. There he encounters a strange crew of dwarfs, whose powerful brew lulls him into a 20-year slumber.

  • S01E08The Sleeping Beauty1958-06-0860m

    Tale of the a young woman cast in a spell that sends her to sleep and the prince who revives her.

  • S01E09The Little Lame Prince1958-07-1560m

    Prince Dolor, heir to the throne of Grauthenia, has been imprisoned by wicked King Bertrand.

  • S01E10The Magic Fishbone1958-08-1960m

    Princess Alicia has trouble feeding all the children.

  • S01E11The Wild Swans1958-09-1260m

    A wicked queen turns her stepsons into swans and tries to kill her stepdaughter.

  • S01E12Hiawatha1958-10-1860m

    An adaptation of Longfellow's poem about two young lovers from rival Indian tribes.

  • S01E13Rapunzel1958-10-2760m

    Prince Peter falls in love with a beautiful voice.

  • S01E14Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves1958-11-1260m

    A humble woodcutter, Ali Baba and his son Abdullah accidentally learn the location and means of entrance to a fantastic cache of treasure, used by a band of thieves. Unable to keep the secret of the cave from his greedy brother Kasim," Ali Baba reveals the magic password.

  • S01E15The Emperor's New Clothes1958-11-2560m

    The conniving tailor convinces the vain monarch that his invisible raiment really exists.

  • S01E16Mother Goose1958-12-2160m

    Mother Goose travels to Wayfair and tries to save the town's annual fair, which has been canceled by young Polly Baker's father, the Mayor.

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