Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories
Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories | |
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Also known as | Mother Goose Stories |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 39 |
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Executive producer | |
Release | August 25, 1990[3] – 1993 |
Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories is a children's television show hosted by
Production
The show featured child actors and elaborate puppets created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. The show featured puppeteers Mike Quinn, Mak Wilson, and Karen Prell as various characters, along with Angie Passmore as the titular Mother Goose.
Fourteen of the episodes were based on stories in L. Frank Baum's 1897 book Mother Goose in Prose, while the others were original tales written for the show. The general look of the characters was based on the work of Maxfield Parrish, the artist who illustrated Baum's book.[4]
The series was originally conceived as a co-production between the
The series finally found a home as a broadcast series on
The first and third seasons of Mother Goose Stories were directed by
A video of the series was also released by CEL Home Video in Australia along with several other films and TV shows from The Jim Henson Company.
Plot
Mother Goose tells her three goslings the stories behind well-known nursery rhymes and fairy tales; examples include "Old King Cole," "Eeiny Meeiny Miny Moe," and "The Magic Nut Tree."
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Episodes
Season 1 (1990)
- "Little Miss Muffet"
- "A Song of Sixpence"
- "Boy Blue"
- "Little Bo Peep"
- "Old King Cole"
- "Hey, Diddle Diddle"
- "Humpty Dumpty"
- "Hickory Dickory Dock"
- "Little Jack Horner"
- "The Prince and the Beggars"
- "Baa Baa Black Sheep"
- "Mary, Mary"
- "Tommy Tucker"
Season 2 (1991)
- "Eenie Meenie"
- "Dicky Birds"
- "The Crooked Man"
- "Mother Hubbard"
- "Eensy Weensy Spider"
- "Hector Protector"
- "Mary's Little Lamb"
- "Duke of York"
- "Pat-a-Cake"
- "Jack Be Nimble"
- "Willie Winkie"
- "Man in the Moon"
- "Jack & Jill"
Season 3 (1992)
- "The Queen of Hearts"
- "Hickety Pickety"
- "Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat"
- "Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater"
- "Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross"
- "It's Raining, It's Pouring"
- "The Giant"
- "Tommy Tittlemouse"
- "Little Nut Tree"
- "Little Girl with a Curl"
- "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
- "Margery Daw"
- "Rub a Dub Dub"
Cast
Puppeteers
- Angie Passmore - Mother Goose
- Karen Prell - Yellow Gosling, Cat (ep. 5), Cow (ep. 11), Little Boy Blue's Mother (ep. 11), Peter the Dicky Bird (ep. 15), Topiary Peacock (ep. 15), Old Mother Hubbard (ep. 17), Peter's Wife (ep. 30)
- Mike Quinn - Brown Gosling, Humpty Dumpty (ep. 1), King (ep. 1), Sheep (ep. 11), Paul the Dicky Bird (ep. 15), Barkley the Dog (ep. 17)
- Mak Wilson - Gold Gosling, Coutchie-Coulou (ep. 1), Speckled Hen (ep. 1), Squire (ep. 11), Royal Gardener (ep. 15), Butcher (ep. 17), Sherlock Hubbard (ep. 17), Man in the Moon (ep. 25)
Guest stars
- Victoria Shalet - Dorothy / Jenny (The Giant / The Little Girl with the Curl)
- J.J. Flynn - (Pat a Cake)
- Sam Preston - (It's Raining, It's Pouring)
Awards
- Outstanding Directing in a Children's Series (Brian Henson, Michael Kerrigan)
- Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design (Mark Storey, Jacqueline Mills, Jill Thraves)
References
- The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- ^ "Old Tales Made New By Henson The Last Work From The Hands Of The Late Puppeteer Begins This Morning On Cable's Disney Channel. Thirty-nine Rhymes Will Come To Life, With Muppets In Almost All The Roles". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- ^ a b The Disney Channel Magazine, Vol. 8, no. 3 (typo in magazine: should be "no. 4"), July/August 1990: pp. 26, 32, 43, 54.
- The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- ^ The Disney Channel Magazine, Vol. 11, no. 1, December 1992/January 1993: pp. 30, 42.
- ^ The Disney Channel Magazine, Vol. 11, no. 2, February/March 1993: p. 26.
- ^ "The 42d Annual Emmys "The Tracey Ullman Show\" Takes Twice As Many Awards As Any Other Show; \"l. A. Law" Is Named Best Drama Series". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 17 March 2012.