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Shirley Temple's Storybook

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Shirley Temple's Storybook is an 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 The House of the Seven Gables, was meant for older youngsters. Temple's three children made their acting debuts in the last episode of the first season, "Mother Goose".

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Shirley Temple

Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

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Seasons

Season 1

16 episodes

Premiered Jan 12, 1958

Season 2

25 episodes

Premiered Oct 18, 1960

Episodes

1–6 of 16

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Ep 1

Beauty and the Beast

Jan 12, 1958

60m

Based on the novel by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, a merchant must give up one of his three daughters, or he will lose his life. Beauty sacrifices herself and so the story continues.

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Ep 2

Rumpelstiltskin

Feb 2, 1958

60m

The miller Hanz Franz has bragged to one and all that his daughter Elsa can spin straw into gold. The poor girl is spirited away by the Royal Tax Collector Lord Karsch and locked in a room in the palace of the King.

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Ep 3

The Nightingale

Feb 18, 1958

60m

The oppressed Chinese peasants and woodsmen have only one consolation -- the beautiful song of a nightingale. But word of this unusual bird reaches the emperor, who promptly orders it brought from the woods to the palace.

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Ep 4