Faerie Tale Theatre

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Faerie Tale Theatre
The 6-DVD box set cover.
Genre	Fairytale fantasy
Creator(s)	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
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Faerie Tale Theatre, fully Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, is 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 consists of well-known actors and directors.

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 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.

[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 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. Twenty-seven episodes were made in total, but only twenty-six episodes have been released on VHS and DVD. The nineteenth episode entitled Grimm Party is a sort of "reunion special," but is presumed to be lost, although Starmaker II tried to have it released on DVD in 2004.