Storybook International is a British children's TV series produced by Harlech Productions for ITV. The show featured folk tales and fairy stories from around the world, based on an anthology edited by Veronica Kruger. Filmed in locations like Russia, Ireland, and Scandinavia, it had 65 episodes over three series, first airing in 1983.
The series was initially in Britain and Europe but later aired in the US, Scandinavia, and the Middle East. It was released on VHS in the 1980s and 1990s and on DVD in 2006.
The show's animated title sequence featured a troubadour singing the theme song with a friendly fox. The original was in a traditional English folk style, but international versions varied, such as the US version replacing "In England I am John" with "In America I'm John".
Madame Bofvén leads a notorious gang of thieves known locally as the Klappsnapparna (the Christmas Thieves), because Christmas is their peak season and Christmas presents are their prey. The gang is now busy with their preparations – cow hooves must be polished, picklocks gathered, and the thieves' lair decorated with counterfeit banknotes. Among the thieves are Bongo, Skuggan, Trollet, and of course Kurre. Kurre is the clumsiest pickpocket in town and grew up in the gang, which has become his family.
A magical storyteller tells enchanting tales based on Aboriginal Canadian folklore and history. It features the comic adventures, magical transformations and mysterious circumstances surrounding a young coyote named Dwight. He falls from the sky into the midst of a community of idiosyncratic animals
Lene and Anders Beier have done what most people only dream of: they have sold everything they own in Denmark and embarked on a new life as hotel owners in Austria. Now the adventure begins, but what will it take to make their dream come true?
Pappyland was a live action children's television show originally written by Jon Nappa. More than 65 episodes were written by award-winning children's writer, Benette Whitmore. It was originally broadcast on TLC from September 30, 1996 to December 1999. Then, after cancellation, aired reruns until February 21, 2003. The show starred acclaimed cartoonist-artist Michael Cariglio as Pappy Drewitt, an artist/49er type character who lived in a magical cabin in a bizarre land with many different creatures and people. More than half of the show was shot on bluescreen. During each half-hour segment, Pappy and other characters danced, sang, taught life lessons and other children's television fare but the main focus of the show was watching Pappy draw pictures. Viewers who sent in their artwork, had their drawing shown during the "Hall of Frames" segment near the end and the closing credits.
A story about three friends and the twists and turns that life throws at them. Rida, Jahan and Babar are the best of friends. Thect that they come from three completely different backgrounds only serves to bring them closer together and complement each other in every aspect of life.
Polka Dot Door was a long-running Canadian children's television series produced by the Ontario Education Communications Authority from 1971–1993. PDD was created and developed by a team of employees from TVOntario hired and led by original series producer-director, Peggy Liptrott.
Significant contributors to the creation and development of the series in 1971 included Executive Producer Dr. Vera Good who laid the conceptual foundation of the show, Educational Supervisor, Marnie Patrick Roberts, Educational Consultant L. Ted Coneybeare, Script Writers/Composers, Pat Patterson and Dodi Robb, Animator Dick Derhodge and Dr. Ada Scherman, a professor at the prestigious Institute of Child Study in Toronto who was consulted in the early stages of PDD's development and is responsible for giving the show its name.
The series presents archetypes that reflect the issues encountered by people who are about to marry, as all the romance fades once the groom is forced to pay all he has in order to secure a house, turning his life after marriage into a struggle to pay off his debts.