Faerie Tale Theatre

Faerie Tale Theatre
The 6-DVD box set cover by former distributor Starmaker II.
Also known as	''Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre''
Genre	Fairytale fantasy
Created by	Shelley Duvall
Presented by	Shelley Duvall
Starring	Various
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	27 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Shelley Duvall
Running time	50 min.
Release
Original network	Showtime
Original release	September 11, 1982 – November 14, 1987
Chronology
Followed by	Tall Tales & Legends Nightmare Classics
Related shows	Shirley Temple's Storybook Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Faerie Tale Theatre (also known as Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre) is an American live-action children's anthology series retelling fairy tales. Shelley Duvall serves as narrator, host and executive producer of the program, and occasionally stars in episodes. The series was followed by two other, albeit less successful shorter anthology series Tall Tales & Legends which followed the same format as Faerie Tale Theatre and focused on classic American folk tales and Nightmare Classics .Both series feature well known actors and directors, and were inspired by the children's television series Shirley Temple's Storybook. This was one of the first examples of cable original programming, alongside HBO's Fraggle Rock.

Faerie Tale Theatre originally aired on Showtime from 1982 to 1987, winning a Peabody Award, TCA Award and Golden CableACE Award. It later aired as edited re-runs on the Disney Channel as well as in syndication on various television stations, including PBS and BookTelevision.

Shelley Duvall began conception of Faerie Tale Theatre while filming Popeye. She reportedly asked her co-star, Robin Williams, his opinion on "The Frog Prince", a fairy tale she was reading during production. Williams would later star in the pilot episode of the series, "The Tale of the Frog Prince".