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Shirley Temple's Storybook

TV Show 1958 6.5/10 41 episodes
Family Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Synopsis

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".

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Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1 EP 1
Beauty and the Beast

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. Beau…

Episode 2 EP 2
Rumpelstiltskin

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 Roy…

Episode 3 EP 3
The Nightingale

The oppressed Chinese peasants and woodsmen have only one consolation -- the beautiful song of a nightingale. But word of this unusual bird…

Episode 4 EP 4
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Episode 5 EP 5
Dick Wittington and His Cat
Episode 6 EP 6
The Land of Green Ginger

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

Episode 7 EP 7
Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle wanders off to a mountain haunt in the Catskills. There he encounters a strange crew of dwarfs, whose powerful brew lulls hi…

Episode 8 EP 8
The Sleeping Beauty

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

Episode 9 EP 9
The Little Lame Prince

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

Episode 10 EP 10
The Magic Fishbone

Princess Alicia has trouble feeding all the children.

Episode 11 EP 11
The Wild Swans

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

Episode 12 EP 12
Hiawatha

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

Episode 13 EP 13
Rapunzel

Prince Peter falls in love with a beautiful voice.

Episode 14 EP 14
Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves

A humble woodcutter, Ali Baba and his son Abdullah accidentally learn the location and means of entrance to a fantastic cache of treasure, …

Episode 15 EP 15
The Emperor's New Clothes

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

Episode 16 EP 16
Mother Goose

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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