MUSEUM OF TELEVISION & RADIO SCREENING SERIES, THE: STORYBOOK PLAYHOUSE 2: PACKAGE 3 {THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE; RAMONA'S BAD DAY; FEELINGS}

Summary

Prepared for The Museum of Television & Radio screening series "Storybook Playhouse," this compilation of stories features works based upon the writings of the Brothers Grimm, Beverly Cleary, and Aliki. In the animated tale, "The Fisherman and His Wife," a fisherman catches a flounder that speaks. The fish explains that he is an enchanted prince and asks to be returned to the sea. The fisherman grants his request. When he returns home, the fisherman tells his wife what happened. She informs him that he should have wished for something and sends him back to the sea to ask the enchanted prince for a cottage. Reluctantly, the fisherman calls to the flounder, who instantly grants his wife's request. Two weeks later, the fisherman's wife is bored with her cottage and sends her husband back to the sea to ask for a castle. Once again, the fisherman reluctantly gets his wife what she wants. Over the next few days, the fisherman's wife demands more and more power. With each request the fisherman grows more certain that the magical fish will become angry with him and his wife. His fears are realized when his wife asks to have the powers of the Lord and is punished for her greed. In the second story, an episode of the PBS series "The Ramona Stories," a girl named Ramona suffers through a day of mishaps. At breakfast, every time she fixes herself a bowl of oatmeal someone in her family takes it. On the way to school, her lunch falls out of her lunchbox. In school, she cannot remember how to spell any of the words on her spelling test and, at lunch, her friends laugh at her leftover pot roast sandwich. After school, Ramona goes to her friend Howie's house and is forced to contend with his little sister, Willa-Jean, who makes Ramona play with her. Later, Ramona and Howie decide to play with a toy boat in a sink full of water. Ramona decides to add blue dye to the water to make it look more like an ocean, but succeeds only in dying her hands blue. When she gets home, her parents have a fight and Ramona becomes convinced that they will get divorced. The next morning she is relieved to see that her parents are no longer fighting and that her bad day is over. The third program is a "Reading Rainbow" episode covering the topic of feelings. Highlights of this program include the following: host LeVar Burton explains what feelings are; the animated story "Feelings" explores how feelings may be expressed by a child; a composer works with children to create a musical piece out of everyday sounds; Burton discusses how he copes when someone close to him dies; using sign language, Dr. Penny Patterson and Koko the Gorilla discuss the emotions Koko felt when her kitten died; a montage of photos of best friends; and children recommend books on feelings that they have read.

Details

• NETWORK: N/A
• DATE: November 30, 1993
• RUNNING TIME: 1:21:34
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T:32639
• GENRE: Children's; Animation; Music
• SUBJECT HEADING: Animation; Children's programs
• SERIES RUN: N/A
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• For "The Fisherman and His Wife":
• Mark Sottnick … Executive Producer, Director
• Tim Raglin … Associate Producer
• C.W. Rogers … Director
• Jacob Grimm … Writer, Based upon the fairy tales collected by
• Wilhelm Grimm … Writer, Based upon the fairy tales collected by
• Eric Metaxas … Adapted by
• Van Dyke Parks … Music by
• Jodie Foster … Narrator
• Diana Bryan … Illustrated by
• For "Ramona's Bad Day":
• Michael Macmillan … Executive Producer , For Atlantis Films Limited
• Seaton McLean … Executive Producer , For Atlantis Films Limited
• Cecily Truett … Co-Executive Producer , For Lancit Media Productions Ltd. , Created for television by
• Hugh Martin … Co-Executive Producer , For Lancit Media Productions Ltd., Created for television by
• Kim Todd … Producer
• Beverly Cleary … Writer, Based on the books by
• Ellen Schecter … Writer
• Mark Eisman … Writer
• Fred Mollin … Music by
• Lynda Mason Green … Cast, Dory Quimby
• Barry Flatman … Cast, Bob Quimby
• Lori Chodos … Cast, Beatrice (Beezus)
• Sarah Polley … Cast, Ramona
• Jayne Eastwood … Cast, Mrs. Whaley
• Barclay Hope … Cast, Uncle Hobart
• Helen Hughes … Cast , Grandma Kemp
• Bobby Becken … Cast, Howie
• Marlow Vella … Cast, Yardape
• Kelly Segal … Cast, Marsha
• Nicole Lyn … Cast, Susan
• Benjamin Barrett … Cast, Tommy
• Norma Reid … Cast , Willa-Jean
• For "Reading Rainbow: Feelings":
• Twila Liggett … Executive Producer
• Tony Buttino … Executive Producer
• Cecily Truett … Producer
• Larry Lancit … Producer
• Gina Pressman … Associate Producer
• Jill Gluckson … Field Producer
• Orly Berger … Field Producer
• Ronnie Krauss … Field Producer
• Hugh Martin … Director
• Ellen Schecter … Writer
• Patchworks … Music by
• Steve Horelick … Music (Misc. Credits), Music Director
• Daniel Shklair … Additional Music by
• Steve Horelick … Theme Music by
• Dennis Kleinman … Theme Music by
• Janet Weir … Theme Music by
• Artbear Pigmation … Book Animated by
• Sherman Bryce … Still Photography by, "With a Friend"
• Ovation Films, Inc. … Opening Animation by
• Le Var Burton … Host
• Raima Evans … Voice, "Feelings"
• Jessica Mercado … Voice, "Feelings"
• Laura Haymann … Voice, "Feelings"
• Paul Sidoriak … Voice, "Feelings"
• Jonathan Rose … Voice, "Feelings"
• Timothy Oakes … Voice, "Feelings"
• Jerry David … Voice, "Feelings"
• Pamela Stogner … Voice, "Feelings"
• Penny Patterson
• Koko (gorilla)