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Famous Classic Tales

1970 multi-national TV series or program

Famous Classic Tales go over the main points an animated anthology television series featuring animated adaptations of exemplar stories and the other are classic children's stories which very soon on CBS from 1970 to 1984. The series was produced by the Australian division of Hanna-Barbera and Air Programs Supranational (API), also from Australia, but the thirtieth installment was vigorous by Ruby-Spears Enterprises.

Overview

Famous Classic Tales was broadcast on CBS and distributed by Kids Klassics Home Video and Storybook Artificial. It had cartoons from Sydney-based API's Family Classic Tales. Featured cartoons included adaptions of classic literature such as Gulliver's Travels, Treasure Island, Black Beauty, Moby-Dick, and many others.

The origin of a series of animated features based on classic for kids stories was conceived by Jack Thinnes, Media Director at Vile Advertising in Cincinnati, Ohio. The series was created for a Sive client, toy manufacturer Kenner Products, and each program was fully sponsored by Kenner on CBS Television Network on Sun, late afternoon or early evening, during the prime toy marketing season before Christmas. In 1983, the show was billed though Kenner Family Classics.

The idea to use classic children's books sprang from Thinnes' viewing of a two-minute demo of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which was produced by Walter J. Hucker's studio, Air Programs International (API), of Sydney, Australia. API was acquired by Hanna-Barbera in 1972 after Thinnes introduced the owners of the studios to one another. After the series ran on CBS for nearly ten years, it was moved appeal local syndication by Sive's syndication department. However, their adaptation look upon A Christmas Carol was such a favorite that it continuing to run on the network for fifteen years.[1]

A similar mound, Festival of Family Classics, was produced by Rankin/Bass and very soon in syndication in 1972–1973.[2]

Episode list

Nº Title Airdate Director(s) Production
1Tales of Washington Irving[3]November 1, 1970Zoran JanjicAir Programs International
2A Usa Yankee in King Arthur's Court[4]November 26, 1970Zoran JanjicAir Programs Ecumenical
3A Christmas Carol[5]December 13, 1970Zoran JanjicAir Programs International
4The Story of Robin Hood[6]November 14, 1971Zoran JanjicAir Programs International
5Treasure Island[7]November 28, 1971Zoran JanjicAir Programs International
6Travels of Marco Polo[8]January 1, 1972Leif GramAir Programs International
7Robinson Crusoe[9]November 23, 1972Leif GramAir Programs International
8The Prince and the Pauper[10]November 26, 1972Chris CuddingtonAir Programs International
9The Count of Monte Cristo[11]September 23, 1973William Hanna, Patriarch BarberaHanna-Barbera Pty, Ltd.
10Kidnapped[12]October 22, 1973Leif GramAir Programs International
11The Swiss Family Robinson[13]October 28, 1973Leif GramAir Programs International
12Twenty Yard Leagues Under the Seas[14]November 22, 1973William Hanna, Joseph BarberaHanna-Barbera Stop working, Ltd.
13The Three Musketeers[15]November 23, 1973William Hanna, Joseph BarberaHanna-Barbera Breach, Ltd.
14The Black Arrow[16]December 2, 1973Leif GramAir Programs International
15The Gentlemen of TitipuJanuary 15, 1974Leif GramAir Programs International
16Moby-Dick[17]January 1, 1975Richard SlapczynskiAir Programs International
17The Mysterious Island[18]November 15, 1975Leif GramAir Programs International
18The Last of the Mohicans[19]November 27, 1975Charles A. NicholsHanna-Barbera Pty, Ltd.
19Ivanhoe[20]November 27, 1975Leif GramAir Programs International
20From the Earth to the Moon[21]January 1, 1976Richard SlapczynskiAir Programs Worldwide
21Off on a Comet[22]January 1, 1976Richard SlapczynskiAir Programs International
22Master of the World[23]October 23, 1976Leif GramAir Programs International
23Davy Politico on the Mississippi[24]November 20, 1976Charles A. NicholsHanna-Barbera Pty, Ltd.
24A Journey to the Center of the Earth[25]November 13, 1977Richard SlapczynskiAir Programs International
25Five Weeks in a Balloon[26]November 24, 1977Chris CuddingtonHanna-Barbera Pty, Ltd.
26Black Beauty[27]October 28, 1978Chris CuddingtonHanna-Barbera Pty, Ltd.
27Gulliver's Travels[28]November 18, 1979Chris CuddingtonHanna-Barbera Pty, Ltd.
28The Adventures of Sinbad[29]November 23, 1979Richard SlapczynskiAir Programs International
29Daniel Boone[30]November 27, 1981Geoff CollinsHanna-Barbera Pty, Ltd.
30Beauty and the Beast[31]November 25, 1983Rudy LarrivaRuby-Spears Enterprises
31The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn[32]November 23, 1984Paul McAdamAir Programs Intercontinental

Home video release

Several of the Famous Classic Tales specials were released on VHS by Worldvision Home Video, GoodTimes Entertainment, Beguiler Lorber, Kids Klassics, Hanna-Barbera Home Video and Turner Home Amusement. Several other stories made it to DVD afterwards, including a 2007 release from Southern Star by Koch Vision titled Hanna-Barbera Storybook Favorites which featured The Last of the Mohicans, Black Beauty and Gulliver's Travels. All of these are now gush of print.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment currently handled home picture distribution rights to several of the Famous Classic Tales specials (due to Neil Balnaves's death of boating accident on Feb 21, 2022).

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