The Storyteller (TV series)

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Television series
German title Jim Henson's The Storyteller
Jim Henson's Best Stories
Original title Jim Henson's The Storyteller
Country of production United States
United Kingdom
original language English (AE)
Year (s) 1988-1989
length 22 minutes
Episodes 13 in 2 seasons
genre Puppet cartoon , fantasy
idea Jim Henson
music Rachel Portman
First broadcast May 15, 1988 (UK)

The Storyteller is a television series in which real actors acted with characters from Jim Henson's Creature Shop . It was a US - British co-production which first aired in 1987 and was created and produced by Jim Henson . The individual episodes of the series are based on different European fairy tales (German, Russian, Greek & Celtic origin), which are represented with actors and puppets. In the frame story these stories are told by an old storyteller (English storyteller - played by John Hurt ), who sits by the fireplace and tells each of these legends to his talking dog (a realistic looking doll - played and spoken by Brian Henson ). Rachel Portman wrote the music on the show .

List of episodes

season 1

Each half hour episode was written by Anthony Minghella . Only nine were completed:

  1. The Soldier and Death ( The Soldier and Death ) *
  2. Of one who went out to learn to fear ( Fearnot )
  3. The lucky child ( The Luck Child )
  4. The Missing Story ( A Story Short )
  5. Hans my hedgehog ( Hans My Hedgehog )
  6. The Three Ravens ( The Three Ravens ) *
  7. Die Kummerliese ( Sapsorrow ) *
  8. The heartless giant ( The Heartless Giant ) *
  9. The true bride ( The True Bride ) *

* This episode first aired during the Jim Henson Hour

On DVD, the individual stories follow the order in which they were broadcast in the US:

  1. Hans my hedgehog (Hans My Hedgehog)
  2. From one who went out to learn to fear (Fearnot)
  3. The Missing Story (A Story Short)
  4. The Luck Child
  5. The Soldier and Death
  6. The True Bride
  7. The Three Ravens
  8. Die Kummerliese (Sapsorrow)
  9. The Heartless Giant

season 2

Henson ventured later at a follow-up series, The Storyteller: Greek Myths (dt .: The Storyteller: Greek legends ), which had a different storyteller ( Michael Gambon ), but the same dog. The second series concentrated on Greek mythology , the framework story took place in the labyrinth of the Minotaur instead of at the fireplace of the (old) narrator, through whose corridors the new narrator and the dog wandered. Only four episodes were produced:

  1. Daedalus and Icarus
  2. Orpheus and Eurydice
  3. Perseus and the Gorgon
  4. Theseus and the Minotaur

On DVD, the individual stories follow the order in which they were broadcast in the US:

  1. Perseus and the Gorgon
  2. Daedalus and Icarus
  3. Theseus and the Minotaur
  4. Orpheus and Eurydice

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