The Storyteller

The StoryTeller is a live-action/puppet television series. It was an American/British co-production which originally aired in 1988 and was created and produced by Jim Henson. Reruns of The StoryTeller episodes were featured in some episodes of The Jim Henson Hour. The series retold various European folk tales, particularly ones considered obscure in Western culture, created with a combination of actors and puppets. The framing device had an old storyteller sitting by a fire telling each tale to both the viewers and to his talking dog who acted as the voice of the viewers, and was written in... a language and traditional style in keeping with old Indo-European based folk tales . The episodes The Heartless Giant, The Soldier and Death, The True Bride and Sapsorrow first aired in the United States as part of The Jim Henson Hour. "The Three Ravens" aired as part of the Hour's twelfth episode, "Food", which was shown in the UK in 1990 and not shown in the US. From an early German folk tale.
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