| Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories | |
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| Also known as | Bedtime Stories |
| Genre | Anthology |
| Created by | Shelley Duvall |
| Presented by | Shelley Duvall |
| Starring | Various |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Shelley Duvall Carol Davies |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production companies | Think Entertainment[1] Universal Cartoon Studios[2] |
| Original release | |
| Network | Showtime |
| Release | April 21, 1992 (1992-04-21) – December 11, 1994 (1994-12-11) |
| Related | |
| Faerie Tale Theatre Tall Tales & Legends Nightmare Classics | |
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories (also known asBedtime Stories) is an Americanlive-action/animatedanthology television series that originally ran onShowtime from April 21, 1992 to December 11, 1994. The series, hosted byShelley Duvall, was a showcase of short animated adaptations ofchildren's books with narration provided by celebrity guests. The VHS tapes were released byMCA/Universal Home Video, but were closed-captioned by theNational Captioning Institute instead of Captions, Inc.
Shelley Duvall hosts a showcase of animated adaptations of children's books from her pop-up book bedroom. The first season's hosting segments are limited to Duvall herself, but in the second season a lamp named Clicker and a Clock named Ticker were added to the segments.
Each episode would typically contain two segments where Duvall would introduce the book which would then transition to an animated segment read by a celebrity guest narrator. Guests who appeared on the show included:Ringo Starr,Bette Midler,Dudley Moore,John Candy,Rick Moranis,Bonnie Raitt,Sissy Spacek,Michael J. Fox,Martin Short andJames Earl Jones[3]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Elizabeth and Larry/Bill and Pete" | Arthur Leonardi | Unknown | April 21, 1992 (1992-04-21) | |
Segment 1:Elizabeth and Larry byMarilyn Sadler narrated byJean Stapleton Segment 2:Bill and Pete byTomie dePaola narrated byDudley Moore | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Blumpoe the Grumpoe Meets Arnold the Cat/Millions of Cats" | Arthur Leonardi | Unknown | April 28, 1992 (1992-04-28) | |
Segment 1:Blumpoe the Grumpoe Meets Arnold the Cat by Jean Davies Okimoto narrated byJohn Candy Segment 2:Millions of Cats byWanda Gag narrated byJames Earl Jones | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "There's a Nightmare in My Closet/There's an Alligator under My Bed/There's Something in My Attic" | Arthur Leonardi | Unknown | May 5, 1992 (1992-05-05) | |
Segment 1:There's a Nightmare in My Closet byMercer Mayer narrated byMichael J. Fox Segment 2:There's an Alligator under My Bed by Mercer Mayer narrated byChristian Slater Segment 3:There's Something in My Attic by Mercer Mayer narrated bySissy Spacek | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Elbert's Bad Word/Weird Parents" | Arthur Leonardi | Unknown | May 12, 1992 (1992-05-12) | |
Segment 1:Elbert's Bad Word byAudrey Wood narrated byRingo Starr Segment 2:Weird Parents by Audrey Wood narrated byBette Midler | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Little Toot & the Loch Ness Monster/Choo Choo" | Arthur Leonardi | Hardie Gramatky | May 19, 1992 (1992-05-19)[4] | |
Segment 1:Little Toot and the Loch Ness Monster byHardie Gramatky narrated byRick Moranis Segment 2:Choo Choo byVirginia Lee Burton, narrated byBonnie Raitt. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Patrick's Dinosaurs/What Happened to Patrick's Dinosaurs?" | Arthur Leonardi | Unknown | May 26, 1992 (1992-05-26) | |
Segment 1:Patrick's Dinosaurs by Carol Carrick narrated byMartin Short Segment 2:What Happened to Patrick's Dinosaurs by Carol Carrick, narrated by Martin Short. | ||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 1 | "Tugford Wanted to Be Bad/Little Penguin's Tale" | Arthur Leonardi | Unknown | September 19, 1993 (1993-09-19) | |
Segment 1:Tugford Wanted to Be Bad by Audrey Wood narrated bySteve Martin Segment 2:Little Penguin's Tale by Audrey Wood narrated byCandice Bergen | ||||||
| 8 | 2 | "My New Neighbors/Rotten Island" | Arthur Leonardi | Unknown | September 26, 1993 (1993-09-26) | |
Segment 1:My New Neighbors written by Keith Faulkner illustrated by Jonathan Lambert narrated byBilly Crystal Segment 2:Rotten Island byWilliam Steig narrated byCharles Grodin | ||||||
| 9 | 3 | "Moe, the Dog in Tropical Paradise/Amos, The Story of an Old Dog and His Couch" | Arthur Leonardi | Unknown | October 3, 1993 (1993-10-03) | |
Segment 1:Moe, the Dog in Tropical Paradise byDiane Stanley narrated byRichard Dreyfus Segment 2:Amos, The Story of an Old Dog and His Couch by Susan Seligson &Howie Schneider narrated byMorgan Freeman | ||||||
| 10 | 4 | "The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings/Katy No Pocket" | Arthur Leonardi | Unknown | October 10, 1993 (1993-10-10) | |
Segment 1:The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings byCarolyn Sherwin Bailey narrated by Shelley Duvall Segment 2:Katy No Pocket by Emmy Payne narrated byMary Steenburgen | ||||||
| 11 | 5 | "Bootsie Barker Bites/Ruby the Copycat" | Arthur Leonardi | Unknown | October 17, 1993 (1993-10-17) | |
Segment 1:Bootsie Barker Bites written by Barbara Bottner illustrated byPeggy Rathmann narrated byRhea Perlman Segment 2:Ruby the Copy Cat by Peggy Rathmann narrated byShelley Long | ||||||
| 12 | 6 | "Aunt Ippy's Museum of Junk/Uncle Wizzmo's New Used Car" | Arthur Leonardi | Unknown | October 24, 1993 (1993-10-24) | |
Segment 1:Aunt Ippy's Museum of Junk by Rodney Greenblat narrated byKathy Bates Segment 2:Uncle Wizzmo's New Used Car by Rodney Greenblat narrated byEd Begley Jr. | ||||||
| 13 | 7 | "The Christmas Witch" | Arthur Leonardi | Unknown | December 11, 1994 (1994-12-11) | |
The Christmas Witch bySteven Kellogg narrated byAngela Lansbury | ||||||
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories was nominated forPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in the44th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1992 but lost toA Claymation Easter onCBS.[5]