Jim Henson’s the Storyteller: Complete Collection

Description

All nine episodes of the anthology series featuring both human actors and creations from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop in retellings of classic folk tales, fables and legends. The episodes are: ‘Hans My Hedgehog’, ‘Fearnot’, ‘A Short Story’, ‘The Luck Child’, ‘The Soldier and Death’, ‘The Three Ravens’, ‘Sapsorrow’, ‘The Heartless Giant’ and ‘The True Bride’. All four episodes of the follow-up ‘The Storyteller: Greek Myths’ are also included, in which the stories of Theseus and the Minotaur, Perseus and the Gorgon, Orpheus and Eurydice and Daedalus and Icarus from Greek mythology are retold. The cast includes John Hurt, Michael Gambon, Sean Bean, Derek Jacobi and Art Malik.