Shirley Temple's Storybook Explained
Shirley Temple's Storybook is a 1958–61 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 Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel 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 and December 21, 1958 as Shirley Temple's Storybook. Thirteen episodes of the first season re-ran on ABC beginning on January 12, 1959.[1] 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.[2] [3]
Episode list
Season 1
| Episode # | Episode title | Original airdate | Featured cast |
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| 1-1[C][L] | "Beauty and the Beast" | January 12, 1958 | Claire Bloom, Charlton Heston, Barbara Baxley, June Lockhart, E.G. Marshall[4] [5] |
| 1-2 | "Rumpelstiltskin" | February 2, 1958 | Phyllis Love, Shaike Ophir, John Raitt, Pernell Roberts |
| 1-3 | "The Nightingale" | February 18, 1958 | Thomas Mitchell, Liam Sullivan, Judith Braun, Milton Parsons |
| 1-4[C][L] | "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" | March 5, 1958[6] | Boris Karloff, Jules Munshin, Shirley Temple, John Ericson, Barbara Pepper |
| 1-5 | "Dick Whittington and His Cat" | March 23, 1958 | Jack Diamond, Orangey, Sebastian Cabot, Martyn Green, Judi Meredith |
| 1-6 | "The Land of Green Ginger" | April 18, 1958 | Kuldeep Singh, Anthony Eustrel, Jack Albertson, Sue England |
| 1-7 | "Rip Van Winkle" | May 6, 1958 | E.G. Marshall, Leora Dana, Billy Barty, Fred Sherman, Ralph Dumke |
| 1-8 | "The Sleeping Beauty" | June 8, 1958 | Anne Helm, Judith Evelyn, Nancy Marchand, Pernell Roberts |
| 1-9 | "The Little Lame Prince" | July 15, 1958 | Lorne Greene, Rex Thompson, Anna Lee |
| 1-10 | "The Magic Fishbone" | August 19, 1958 | Leo G. Carroll, Lisa Daniels, Rex Evans |
| 1-11 | "The Wild Swans" | September 12, 1958 | |
| 1-12 | "Hiawatha" | October 13, 1958 | John Ericson, Katherine Warren, Pernell Roberts |
| 1-13 | "Rapunzel" | October 27, 1958 | Carol Lynley, Agnes Moorehead, Don Dubbins, Marian Seldes |
| 1-14 | "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" | November 12, 1958 | Nehemiah Persoff, Thomas Gomez, Bruce Gordon, Miriam Colon |
| 1-15 | "The Emperor's New Clothes" | November 25, 1958 | Sebastian Cabot, Eli Wallach, Yale Wexler, Richard Haydn |
| 1-16[C] | "Mother Goose" | December 21, 1958 | Shirley Temple, Elsa Lanchester, Billy Gilbert, Tudor Owen |
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- C^ Episode was telecast in color.
- L^ Live episode.
Season 2
| Episode # | Episode title | Original airdate | Featured cast |
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| 2-1 | "The Land of Oz" | September 18, 1960 | Shirley Temple, Agnes Moorehead, Jonathan Winters, Sterling Holloway, Frances Bergen, Arthur Treacher, Mel Blanc |
| 2-2 | "Kim" | September 25, 1960 | Tony Haig, Michael Rennie, Joseph Wiseman, Arnold Moss, Alan Napier |
| 2-3 | "Winnie the Pooh" | October 2, 1960 | Shirley Temple, Ted Eccles, Bil Baird, Cora Baird and the Baird Marionettes, Faz Fazakas |
| 2-4 | "Tom and Huck" | October 9, 1960 | David Ladd, Teddy Rooney, Dan Duryea, Jackie Coogan, Ruthie Robinson |
| 2-5 | "Madeline" | October 16, 1960 | Gina Gillespie, Imogene Coca, Ann Jillian, Billy Gilbert |
| 2-6 | "Little Men" | October 23, 1960 | Shirley Temple, Fernando Lamas, Eleanor Audley, Mary Wickes |
| 2-7 | "The Prince and the Pauper" | October 30, 1960 | Peter Lazer, Gig Young, Julie Sommars, Ronald Lang |
| 2-8 | "Emmy Lou" | November 6, 1960 | Frankie Avalon, Bernadette Withers, Shirley Mitchell, Jimmy Boyd, Marjorie Reynolds |
| 2-9 | "The Reluctant Dragon" | November 13, 1960 | Shirley Temple, John Raitt, Jack Weston, Jonathan Harris, Alice Pearce, J. Pat O'Malley |
| 2-10 | "The Black Arrow" | November 27, 1960 | Marshall Reed, Tony Haig, Jacques Aubuchon Sean McClory, Carroll O'Connor |
| 2-11 | "The Indian Captive" | December 4, 1960 | Tom Carty, Jennie Lynn, Doris Dowling, Cloris Leachman, Anne Seymour |
| 2-12 | "The House of Seven Gables" | December 11, 1960 | Shirley Temple, Martin Landau, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Culp, Jonathan Harris |
| 2-13 | "The Black Sheep" | December 18, 1960 | Dennis Kohler, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Philip Baird, Gloria Vanderbilt, Liam Redmond |
| 2-14 | "Babes in Toyland" | December 25, 1960 | Shirley Temple, Jonathan Winters, Jerry Colonna, Angela Cartwright, Carl Ballantine, Joe Besser, Hanley Stafford |
| 2-15 | | January 8, 1961 | Gina Gillespie, Wilard Waterman, Renie Riano, Kelly Smith, Gregory Irvin, Tor Johnson |
| 2-16 | "King Midas" | January 15, 1961 | Paul Ford, Wally Cox, Julius LaRosa, Anne Helm, Lou Krugman |
| 2-17 | "Rebel Gun" | January 22, 1961 | Robert Morse, J. Pat O'Malley, Jackie Coogan, Christopher Dark, Wesley Lau, Robert Sampson |
| 2-18 | "The Terrible Clockman" | January 29, 1961 | Shirley Temple, Sam Jaffe, Jacques Aubuchon, Eric Portman, David Frankham |
| 2-19 | "The Fawn" | February 5, 1961 | Jane Darwell, Jena Engstrom, Charles McGraw, Dan Sheridan, Tommy Turk |
| 2-20 | "Onawandah" | February 12, 1961 | |
| 2-21 | "The Return of Long John Silver" | February 19, 1961 | James Westerfield, Tim O'Connor, Tony Haig, Walter Burke, Robert Carricart |
| 2-22 | "The Little Mermaid" | March 5, 1961 | Shirley Temple, Donald Harron, Ray Walston, J. Pat O'Malley, Francine York, Nina Foch, Cathleen Nesbitt |
| 2-23 | "The Peg-leg Pirate of Sulu" | March 12, 1961 | Claude Akins, Miriam Colon, Eugene Mazzola, Howard Caine |
| 2-24 | "The Princess and the Goblins" | March 19, 1961 | Shirley Temple, Arte Johnson, Irene Hervey, Alice Pearce, Jack Weston, Mary Wickes |
| 2-25 | "Two for the Road" | July 16, 1961 | Richard Eyer, Theodore Marcuse, Joey D. Vieira | |
Book collections
Random House published three fairy tale collections under Temple's name based on the first season: Shirley Temple's Storybook (the complete season, except for "Hiawatha" and "Mother Goose," and including one additional story, "The Valiant Little Tailor"), Shirley Temple's Fairyland (selections from the first season), and Shirley Temple's Stories That Never Grow Old (selections from the first season). A fourth book, Shirley Temple's Favorite Tales of Long Ago (illustrated and published by Random House in 1958) includes "The Magic Fishbone", "The Nightingale", "The Valiant Little Tailor", and "The Little Lame Prince".
Home media
The full series anthology has not been released, however selected episodes of the second season were released on Region 1 DVD in 2006.[7] First Run Video released all sixteen of the first-season episodes, all in black and white, on VHS tapes in 1989. Wood Knapp Video re-released thirteen of the episodes from the first season in extended play speed on VHS tape. The episodes were "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", "Hiawatha", "The Land of Green Ginger", "The Magic Fishbone", "The Nightingale", "Rapunzel", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Lame Prince", "Mother Goose", "Rip Van Winkle", "The Sleeping Beauty", "The Wild Swans", and "Dick Wittington and His Cat".
External links
Notes and References
- Shirley's Show Proves to Be Just Too Costly. Scott, Vernon. The Bend Bulletin. 1959-01-12. 2010-05-04.
- Book: Woolery . George W. . Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series . 1985 . The Scarecrow Press . 0-8108-1651-2 . 452–453.
- Book: Windeler, Robert . 1978 . The Films of Shirley Temple . New York: Carol Publishing Group . 255 . 0-8065-0725-X.
- Shirley Temple's Storybook. 1958-01-11. 2010-05-04. Daytona Beach Morning Journal.
- WHERE TO DIAL TODAY. https://web.archive.org/web/20121026141527/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/518786842.html?dids=518786842:518786842&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+13,+1958&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=WHERE+TO+DIAL+TODAY. dead. October 26, 2012. Chicago Tribune. 1958-01-13. Wolters, Larry. 2010-05-04.
- SHIRLEY TEMPLE TAKES A TV ROLE; Hostess of 'Storybook' Show Will Play Part March 5 -Niven Acquires Script. The New York Times. February 13, 1958. May 4, 2010.
- Web site: Shirley Temple's Storybook DVD release. Lambert. David. 2006-04-23. TVShowsOnDVD.com. 2009-06-08. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121010034017/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Shirley-Temples-Storybook/5524. 2012-10-10.
