An old storyteller tells European folk tales to his sarcastic dog.An old storyteller tells European folk tales to his sarcastic dog.An old storyteller tells European folk tales to his sarcastic dog.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 4 wins & 3 nominations total
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- TriviaSir John Hurt loved working on this series, and wished it could've lasted for more than one season. Jim Henson also planned to use more detailed folktales and the Creature Shop to make hour-long episodes. Some completed scripts included ones based on Petrosinella; The Witch Baby, which was used in the 2011 StoryTeller graphic novel anthology; and Vasilissa the Beautiful, which was adapted into "The Storyteller: Witches" graphic novel series in 2014. Three more graphic novel series were made, "The StoryTeller: Dragons" in 2016 and "The Storyteller: Giants" and "The Storyteller: Fairies" in 2017. A video game was also planned to be made but never released.
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The Storyteller: [opening lines] When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by the fire was kept for... The Storyteller.
- Crazy creditsA bird flies through various scenes, before emerging from the Storyteller's mouth and dropping a ring on a stone, which forms the O in the series title.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Troldspejlet: Episode #3.1 (1990)
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amazingly satistfying
i loved this series when i was 6 and now i own it on dvd i love it even more.The key to this(and all the other jim henson fantasies)is that if they had recreated all those monsters with a computer, it might have looked okay then but by now it would of been laughed at by any critical viewer.The stories are all so beautifully created they are extremeley hard to forget, and who said the title music was corny!! my favourite of all the stories is probably the three ravens in a close tye with the soldier and death. the only episode i dont like is hans my hedgehog, this can be forgiven as it was made as a pilot and probably had smaller budget, the camera is shakey storytellers makeup is different and hans mum and dad are two terribly annoying actors but all the rest are great buy and enjoy edward
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- cows_and_pigs
- Dec 10, 2003
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