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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Reluctant Dragon

A mouse is stranded on an isolated island.

Abel's Island

Happy Circus

Three animated stories.  Janko Raven; Plinko; The Hedgehog

Hungarian Folk Tales

The Talking Parcel - Pt.1

The Talking Parcel - Pt.2

A hunter tries to save the czar and wed his daughter.

Svatohor

The Sleeping Princess

As Long as He Can Count the Cows

The Man Who Planted Trees

The Silver Cornet

Bill & Bunny

Frog and Toad Are Friends

A leggy green frog and a squat green toad share adventures together.

Frog and Toad Together

A beauty agrees to live in a beast's castle.

Beauty & the Beast

God commands Noah to build an ark. Animated.

Noah's Ark

People discover they exist in a man's dream.

Rarg

Three tales in clay animation. Circus Dream - by Franck Flanquart and Pierre Scarella; The Elephant and the Whale - by Jacques-Remy Girerd; Timber the Woodsman - by Alexandre Fletchet

Circus Dreams

The Poor Man’s Vineyard; First the Dance, Then the Feast; The Wandering of the Needle, the Dog, the Egg, and the Rooster; The Astronomer, the Thief, the Hunter, and the Tailor

More Hungarian Folk Tales

The Boy in the Oak Tree

Oh, Mr. Toad! - Pt.1

Oh, Mr. Toad! - Pt. 2

Bill the Minder

A Czar declares that whoever makes him a ship that could sail through the air would marry his daughter.

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship - Pt.1

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship - Pt.2

The Emperor's New Clothes

A young elephant goes to live with his eccentric uncle when his parents are lost at sea.

Uncle Elephant

Jazztime Tale

Merlin and the Dragons

Pegasus the Flying Horse

Elderly Badger, unworldly Mole and brave Rat repeatedly save reckless Toad from misadventures stemming from his infatuation with cars. In puppet animation.

The Wind in the Willows

An emperor learns a lesson from a tiny bird.

Nightingale

A mouse's tales distract a hungry weasel.

Mouse Soup

The Talking Eggs

Long Ago and Far Away is a TV series that aired on PBS Television from 1989 to 1993. It was created by WGBH, a public television broadcast service located in Boston, Massachusetts. WGBH is a member of PBS, which allowed for this TV series to be viewed on various other PBS stations.

Each episode began with host James Earl Jones sitting in a chair in a room with a table, lamp and window. The walls were blue with white dots in order to make it appear as if these living room items were sitting out in space.

James Earl Jones talks during the short opening section, then acts as narrator for the balance of an episode. This series, aimed at children aged six to nine years old, presents stories based on traditional fairy tales. A number of presentation methods were used to tell these stories, with stop motion animation, live-action or cel animation being used depending on the episode.

Long Ago and Far Away also featured a number of guest narrators including: Tammy Grimes, Kim Loughran, David Suchet, and Mia Farrow.

The Best Seasons of Long Ago and Far Away

The Best Seasons of Long Ago and Far Away

Season 2

Season 1

Season 3

Season 4