
Famous Classic Tales
Famous Classic Tales is a series that airs cartoons from production companies such as Filmation, Rankin-Bass, Ruby-Spears, Air Programs International, Hanna-Barbera, Hanna Barbera Australia, and Southern Star Group. Famous Classic Tales was shown on CBS, and distributed by Kids Klassics Home Video and Storybook World. It had cartoons from 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 creation of a series of animated features based on classic children's stories was conceived by Jack Thinnes, Media Director at Sive Advertising in Cincinnati, Ohio. The series was created for a Sive client, Kenner Products, and each program was fully sponsored by Kenner on CBS Television Network on Sunday, late afternoon or early evening, during the prime toy selling season before Christmas. 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 Hucker's studio, API, of Sydney, Australia. API was purchased later by Hanna-Barbera Studios after Thinnes introduced the owners of the studios to one another. After the series ran on CBS for nearly ten years, it was moved into local syndication by Sive's syndication department. However, their adaptation of A Christmas Carol was such a favorite that it continued to run on the network for fifteen years.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Tales Of Washington Irving
01-11-197046mBased on "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving
- Ep 2
2.A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
29-11-197073mThis animated version updates this classic story to a modern day Connecticut factory worker who is transported back in time to the year 528 and the days of the court of King Arthur...
- Ep 3
3.A Christmas Carol
13-12-197053mAn old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when spirits visit him on Christmas Eve.
- Ep 4
4.The Legend Of Robin Hood
14-11-197146m - Ep 5
5.Treasure Island
28-11-197145m - Ep 6
6.Travels of Marco Polo
02-01-197247m - Ep 7
7.Robinson Crusoe
19-11-197247mBased on the original novel by Daniel Defoe.
- Ep 8
8.The Prince and the Pauper
26-11-197246mBased on the original story by Mark Twain.
- Ep 9
9.The Count Of Monte Cristo
23-09-197346m - Ep 10
10.Kidnapped
21-10-197348m - Ep 11
11.The Swiss Family Robinson
28-10-197346m - Ep 12
12.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
22-11-197344mBased on the novel by Jules Verne and produced by Hanna-Barbera Australia.
- Ep 13
13.The Three Musketeers
23-11-197346m - Ep 14
14.The Black Arrow
02-12-197348m - Ep 15
15.The Gentlemen Of Titipu
13-01-197447m - Ep 16
16.Moby Dick
01-01-197550m - Ep 17
17.The Mysterious Island
15-11-197548m - Ep 18
18.The Last Of The Mohicians
27-11-197545m - Ep 19
19.Ivanhoe
27-11-197548m - Ep 20
20.From The Earth To The Moon
01-01-197645m - Ep 21
21.Off On A Comet
01-01-197656mBased on the original novel by Jules Verne.
- Ep 22
22.Master Of The World
23-10-197648m - Ep 23
23.Davy Crockett On The Mississippi
20-11-197645m - Ep 24
24.A Journey To The Center Of The Earth
13-11-197746m - Ep 25
25.Five Weeks In A Balloon
24-11-197747m - Ep 26
26.Black Beauty
28-10-197845m - Ep 27
27.Gulliver's Travels
18-11-197948m - Ep 28
28.The Adventures Of Sinbad
23-11-197947m - Ep 29
29.Daniel Boone
27-11-198148m - Ep 30
30.The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
24-11-198344m - Ep 31
31.Beauty And The Beast
25-11-198348m
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