Shirley Temple's Storybook
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Shirley Temple's Storybook is a 1958-1961 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.
Shirley Temple's Storybook | |
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Also known as | The Shirley Temple Show Shirley Temple Theatre |
Directed by | William Corrigan Bob Henry Harry Horner Richard Morris Robert B. Sinclair |
Presented by | Shirley Temple |
Narrated by | Shirley Temple |
Composers | Jack Brooks Jerry Livingston Vic Mizzy Arthur Morton Walter Scharf Vic Schoen |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 41 |
Production | |
Executive producer | William H. Brown Jr. |
Producers | William Asher Paul Bogart Alvin Cooperman |
Cinematography | Gert Andersen |
Editor | Henry Batista |
Running time | 45ā48 minutes |
Production company | Henry Jaffe Enterprises Inc. |
Original release | |
Network | NBC (1958) |
Release | January 12, 1958 (1958-01-12) ā July 16, 1961 (1961-07-16) |
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]