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Let's Pretend (Radio)
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A radio series that ran from 1934 to 1954, with each episode serving as a retelling of a classic (and occasionally obscure) fairy tale. Some episodes are in public domain and can be heard here. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: Some of the shorter fairy-tales get this. For example, The Elves and the Shoemaker adds a subplot of a nasty landlord threatening to evict the shoemaker's family unless his pretty daughter marries him and of a good duke who eventually falls in love with the daughter and stops the villain. | |
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Halloween Episode | |
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Holiday Episode: A few of the fairy tales were meant to serve as holiday specials. Fairer-Than-A-Fairy meant to serve as a Halloween special, Ceres and Proserpina served as a Thanksgiving special. The Leprechaun served as a St. Patrick's Day special. An original play called The House of the World and an adaptation of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas both served as Christmas specials. The 1947 broadcast of Thumbelina also included a 4th of July-themed Audience Participation game between the story's two acts, since it aired a few days before the holiday. | |
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Artifact Title: The title originally referred to the fact that the scripts were acted out by child actors. This might be surprising to modern listeners, as most of the surviving episodes are from the end of the run when the actors had grown into their teens and 20s, and the later records from the '70s just hired adult actors. | |
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Gender Flip: The Sea Witch in The Little Mermaid, becomes a male Witch Doctor instead, probably because there are so few male roles in the story as written. | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
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Adaptational Heroism: Rumpelstiltskin deals with the problem of the heroine marrying the greedy king by portraying the king as not greedy, but deep in debt to another country and worried that failure to pay will mean war, and by making it clear that he truly falls in love with the heroine and she with him. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: While most of the tales adapted have Happily Ever After endings, there are some bittersweet exceptions: for example, The Little Mermaid, Princess Moonbeam (based on The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) and The Yellow Dwarf. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Combined with Never Say "Die", this sometimes happens. For example, in Robin Hood, Robin has a Thou Shalt Not Kill policy and only knocks out Guy of Gisbourne instead of killing him, and in The Yellow Dwarf, not only are the murdered prince and princess turned into trees with entwined branches in the end, the audience is assured that someday, after the Yellow Dwarf dies, they'll become human again and live happily ever after. | |
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Merchandise-Driven | |
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Merchandise-Driven: Remember folks, radio was the TV of its time. There was a comic, picture books, and records based on the series. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: The witch threatens to beat Rapunzel when she displeases her, and the episode makes it clear that she's not just all bark and no bite. The wicked stepmother in The Twelve Months also tries to whip her stepdaughter Marushka. | |
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Compressed Adaptation | |
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Compressed Adaptation: Typical for the longer fairy-tales. For example, Thumbelina leaves out the toads and instead has the bumblebee (originally a beetle) kidnap Thumbelina from her foster mother, while Beauty and the Beast gives Beauty only one sister and skips straight from her first night in the Beast's castle to the day she asks to go home a year later. | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
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Adaptation Name Change: In The Yellow Dwarf, the princess's name is changed from Toutebelle to Margo, and in The Enchanted Frog, the youngest prince and the frog princess are named Yan and Dierdre instead of Ivan and Vasilisa. | |
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Expy: In Snowdrop and the Seven Dwarfs, one of the dwarfs is prone to loud, funny sneezes, just like Sneezy. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: In the show's later years, Cream of Wheat became its sponsor and in each episode the cast both figuratively and literally sang its praises. | |
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Never Say "Die" | |
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Never Say "Die": Played With. Animal deaths tended to be retained (i.e. the death of the goat in "One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes"). Human deaths tended to be censored, at least for non-villainous characters, such as in the show's adaption of Bluebeard, where the wives are merely held prisoner in the chamber, rather than killed. Averted in The Little Mermaid, however, which retains its original Bittersweet Ending: the words "die" and "dead" are explicitly used for the mermaid's fate. Also averted in King Arthur, which features the death of Uther Pendragon. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The series tended to be very faithful to source material. It featured one of the few adaptions of Rapunzel to remember the witch is the heroine's godmother, and one of the few adaptations of The Little Mermaid not only to keep the original ending, but to feature the mermaid's grandmother as a major character. In The Golden Touch, King Midas's sister teases him by reminding him that their uncle used to say his ears were as long as a donkey's. This alludes to another, lesser-known legend about Midas, where he offended the god Apollo, who turned his ears into donkey's ears. | |
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