| 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 | 45–48 minutes |
| Production company | Henry Jaffe Enterprises Inc. |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC (1958) |
| Release | January 12, 1958 – July 16, 1961 |
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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]
- ^ Scott, Vernon (1959-01-12). "Shirley's Show Proves to Be Just Too Costly". The Bend Bulletin. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
- ^ Woolery, George W. (1985). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 452–453. ISBN 0-8108-1651-2.
- ^ Windeler, Robert (1978). The Films of Shirley Temple. New York: Carol Publishing Group. p. 255. ISBN 0-8065-0725-X.