Soundtrack: Stephen Barber

Direction Peter Medak · Gilbert Cates · Graeme Clifford · Robert Iscove

Cast Shelley Duvall · John Achorn · Patrick DeSantis · David McCharen

Plot TV Series (1982-1987). 6 seasons. 27 chapters. At a time when most other shows for children were either low-budget productions or product-inspired cartoons that were little more than half-hour commercials,...

Direction Peter Medak

Cast Lesley Ann Warren · Peter Weller · Roy Dotrice · Ian Abercrombie

Plot Raising six daughters by yourself is hard enough-and that's before getting their enormous monthly shoe bills. When a King (Roy Dotrice) discovers that his six princess daughters are each going...

Direction Peter Medak

Cast Melissa Gilbert · Lauren Hutton · Lee Remick · Mary Jackson

Plot The warmth of a good friend can melt any sort of trouble, as Gerta (Little House On The Prairie's Melissa Gilbert) and Kay (Outbreak's Lance Kerwin) are about to find...

Direction Graeme Clifford

Cast Vincent Price · John Achorn · Jeff Corey · Patrick DeSantis

Plot An intelligent, fearless boy living in a superstitious Transylvanian village goes out into the world to figure out what everyone else is afraid of, "the shivers". The king hires him...

Direction James Frawley

Cast Rick Schroder · Bridgette Andersen · Paul Dooley · Joan Collins

Plot If taking candy from strangers is a bad idea, then eating candy houses is a definite no-no! In this re-telling of the tale by the Brothers Grimm, Hansel (NYPD Blue's...

Direction Mark Cullingham

Cast Ellen Barkin · Sofia Coppola · John Achorn · William Daniels

Plot Sure, there's a lot of perks to being a princess-a nice castle, beautiful clothes, great food--but it's no fun if you can't laugh about it once in a while! Princess...

Direction Peter Medak

Cast Dick Shawn · Art Carney · Alan Arkin · Timothy Dalton

Plot Thanks to two con men, an overly fashion-conscious Emperor finds out that there's a lot more to being a good ruler than just looking the part. Bo (America's Sweetheart's Alan...

Direction Eric Idle

Cast Shelley Duvall · Robin Williams · Teri Garr · Rene Auberjonois

Plot A spoiled princess learns that beauty is not skin deep-especially when it's green and slimy-in this hysterical retelling of the classic fairy tale directed by Monty Python's Eric Idle. As...

Direction Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Cast Carrie Fisher · Maryedith Burrell · Mitchel Evans · Conchata Ferrell

Plot Sometimes the most wonderful things come in the smallest packages. A lonely Charwoman is given a magic seedling by a Beggar Woman and is delighted when she wakes up to...

Direction Emile Ardolino

Cast Ned Beatty · Shelley Duvall · Bud Cort · Paul Dooley

Plot The King (Roseanne's Ned Beatty) gives the Miller's Daughter a choice:she can either spin straw into gold and become his Queen, or she can die. She picks the first one,...

Direction Peter Medak

Cast Elizabeth McGovern · Vanessa Redgrave · Shelley Duvall · Rex Smith

Plot Having a stepmother who is as vain as she is wicked when you just happen to be the most beautiful woman in the land is a dangerous combination, as Snow...

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Harry Dean Stanton · Ed Begley Jr. · Tim Conway · Glenn Withrow

Plot Things are bound to have changed a bit when you wake up after a twenty-year nap, as Rip Van Winkle (Alien's Harry Dean Stanton) finds out in Francis Ford Coppola's...

Direction Lamont Johnson

Cast Shelley Duvall · Mark Blankfield · Dennis Christopher · Elliott Gould

Direction Jeremy Kagan

Cast Christopher Reeve · Bernadette Peters · Beverly D'Angelo · Rene Auberjonois

Plot As Bernadette Peters (The Jerk, Pennies From Heaven) and Christopher Reeve (Superman) find out in this witty take on the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, sometimes waiting for your prince...

Direction Robert Iscove

Cast Ben Vereen · Alfre Woodard · Gregory Hines · Brock Peters

Plot Puss (All That Jazz's/Roots' Ben Vereen proves to be one clever cat in this retelling of the Brothers Grimm tale Puss In Boots. In return for some finery and boots,...

Direction Howard Storm

Cast Billy Crystal · Stephen Furst · Jeff Goldblum · Larry Hankin

Plot In this hilarious retelling of the classic fairy tale, three little pigs find out that if you take the time to build a solid foundation, you're able to withstand anything...

Direction Ivan Passer

Cast Mick Jagger · Bud Cort · Barbara Hershey · Edward James Olmos

Plot In his dramatic television debut, legendary musical superstar Mick Jagger plays an Emperor who finds that life's most beautiful treasures sometimes come in plain wrapping-like a small little nightingale bird...

Direction Peter Medak

Cast Paul Reubens · Carl Reiner · James Belushi · James Coburn

Plot He might be made out of wood, but Pinocchio (Pee Wee's Playhouse's Paul Reubens) proves that puppets have hearts of gold in this retelling of the well-loved tale Pinocchio. A...

Direction Graeme Clifford

Cast Mary Steenburgen · Malcolm McDowell · John Vernon · Diane Ladd

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Tatum O'Neal · Shelley Duvall · Hoyt Axton · Alex Karras

Plot It's hard to find porridge, a chair and a bed that's "just right" nowadays, as a little girl is about to find in this charming retelling of the classic tale...