Shirley Temple's Storybook
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First Air DateJan 12, 1958
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ProductionScreen Gems, Henry Jaffe Enterprises Inc., NBC
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Rotten tomato50%
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Original titleShirley Temple's Storybook
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ReleaseJan 12, 1958
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Overview
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. The first season of sixteen black-and-white and colored episodes aired on NBC between January 12, 1958 and December 21, 1958 as Shirley Temple's Storybook. Thirteen episodes of the first season re-ran on ABC beginning on January 12, 1959. The second season of twenty-five color episodes aired on NBC as The Shirley Temple Show between September 18, 1960 and July 16, 1961 in much the same format that it had under its original title. Temple's three children made their acting debuts in the last episode of the first season, "Mother Goose". When a stagehand said 'shit' during a "Mother Goose" rehearsal, Temple had him fired, telling the stunned cast it was a children's show–although no children were present during the rehearsal. Three of the first season episodes were done live, and each of the three took ten days of preparation. Temple read each script and made suggestions for improvement if necessary.
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Casts
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Narrator
Season 1 ( 1958-01-12)
Beauty and the Beast
Rumpelstiltskin
The Nightingale
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Dick Wittington and His Cat
The Land of Green Ginger
Rip Van Winkle
The Sleeping Beauty
The Little Lame Prince
The Magic Fishbone
The Wild Swans
Hiawatha
Rapunzel
Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
The Emperor's New Clothes
Mother Goose
Season 2 ( 1960-10-18)
The Land of Oz
Kim
Winnie-the-Pooh
Tom and Huck
Madeline
Little Men
The Prince and the Pauper
Emmy Lou
The Reluctant Dragon
The Black Arrow
The Indian Captive
The House of the Seven Gables
The Black Sheep
Babes in Toyland
Pippi Longstocking
King Midas
Rebel Gun
The Terrible Clockman
The Fawn
Onawandah
The Return of Long John Silver
The Little Mermaid
The Peg-leg Pirate of Sulu
The Princess and the Goblins