Shirley Temple's Storybook
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In 1958-61, Shirley Temple made a brief return to show business with a one-hour television series. Shirley Temple's Storybook premiered on NBC January 12, 1958 and moved to ABC in 1959, when it last aired on December 1 of that year. On September 11, 1960 it returned to NBC under the title The Shirley Temple Show and last aired September 10, 1961 , with much the same format that it had featured under its previous title. The show featured adaptations of fairy tales and other family oriented stories. Shirley Temple starred as the Hostess and occasional narrator/actress. The show went off the air when Walt Disney moved his television series from ABC to NBC in September of 1961.
One of its most notable episodes was an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Land of Oz, starring Ms. Temple as Tip and Ozma, Sterling Holloway as Jack Pumpkinhead, Ben Blue as the Scarecrow, Gil Lamb as the Tin Woodman, and Agnes Moorehead as Mombi. Presented nine months after what was only the second telecast of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, the show was very likely motivated by the recent great success of the MGM classic on television.
[edit] Episode List
- As Shirley Temple's Storybook
- 1 Beauty and the Beast 1/12/1958
- 2 Rumpelstiltskin 2/2/1958
- 3 The Nightingale 2/18/1958
- 4 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 3/5/1958
- 5 Dick Wittington and His Cat 3/23/1958
- 6 The Land of Green Ginger 4/18/1958
- 7 Rip Van Winkle 5/6/1958
- 8 The Sleeping Beauty 6/8/1958
- 9 The Little Lame Prince 7/15/1958
- 10 The Magic Fishbone 8/19/1958
- 11 The Wild Swans 9/12/1958
- 12 Hiawatha 10/13/1958
- 13 Rapunzel 10/27/1958
- 14 Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves 11/12/1958
- 15 The Emperor's New Clothes 11/25/1958
- 16 Mother Goose 12/21/1958
- As The Shirley Temple Show
- 17 The Land of Oz 9/18/1960
- 18 Kim 9/25/1960
- 19 Winnie-the-Pooh 10/3/1960
- 20 Tom and Huck 10/9/1960
- 21 Madeline 10/16/1960
- 22 Little Men 10/23/1960
- 23 The Prince and the Pauper 10/30/1960
- 24 Emmy Lou 11/6/1960
- 25 The Reluctant Dragon 11/13/1960
- 26 The Black Arrow 11/27/1960
- 27 The Indian Captive 12/4/1960
- 28 The House of Seven Gables 12/11/1960
- 29 The Black Sheep 12/18/1960
- 30 Babes in Toyland 12/25/1960
- 31 Pippi Longstocking 1/8/1961
- 32 King Midas 1/15/1961
- 33 Rebel Gun 1/22/1961
- 34 The Terrible Clockman 1/29/1961
- 35 The Fawn 2/5/1961
- 36 Onawandah 2/12/1961
- 37 The Return of Long John Silver 2/19/1961
- 38 The Little Mermaid 3/5/1961
- 39 The Peg-leg Pirate of Sulu 3/12/1961
- 40 The Princess and the Goblins 3/19/1961
- 41 Two for the Road 7/16/1961
