Manga Fairy Tales of the World is an anime anthology series produced by World Television, TBS Britannica and Dax International based on fairy tales, legends, literature classics and famous characters biographies. The series was broadcast in Japan by TBS from October 7, 1976, to March 28, 1979, in 127 episodes. Each episode is divided into two 10-minute parts that focus on two different stories, with the exception of 13 episodes aired consecutively mid-series that cover an entire storyline in a single half-hour episode. In the second half of the series each short story, which was sometimes a rerun of an earlier one, was combined with a longer story splitted into several episodes.
Three opening themes and three ending themes were used in the series:, and were used as opening themes, while, and were used as ending themes.
The series was distributed in the US in 1979 by American Way under the title Tales of Magic, in a selection of 65 episodes spanning three seasons. Another English dubbed version produced by Cori Films Int'l was titled Wonderful Tales From Around the World.