Customer Reviews

Tall Tales & Legends: The Complete Series

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For fans of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theater, Tall Tales and Legends represents another fantastic collection of star-studded stories. In this, her second anthology collection, Ms. Duvall focused on American Folklore stories rather than the more internationally known fairy tales of the more well known collection "Faerie Tale Theatre". Stories like Johnny Appleseed, Casey at the Bat, Darlin' Clementine all come alive in Tall Tales, and while the sets may be a little more sparce than in Faerie Tale Theatre, the stories and productions are once again fantastic, and the casts are once again superb. In our family, Martin Short as Johnny Appleseed is the clear cut winner among the younger sect (ages 7 and 9).

The original release of this was quite expensive and included 9 individual dvd's in individual cases. This new version is a welcomed re-build of the series onto 3 discs, compiling the stories into a smaller overall package with a very attractive price point and a smaller foot-print on the proverbial kid's shelf. Kudos to E1 for the re-formatting.

I home school my kids and these stories came in handy giving them something they could enjoy as well as learn from. I was very pleased with the purchase and it coupled with the faerie tale theater set the girls have all the shows I enjoyed growing up and can enjoy them over and over again.

I bought this DVD set to replace a partial collection of these videos on VHS. These are always enjoyable and good for the whole family.

I wanted to share these stories with my children the way I remembered them. I was so happy to find on Amazon.

After watching Shelly Duvall's Fearie Tale Theatre, I was delighted to find this treasury! I ordered it and it and it came- in mint condition- a few days later. Wonderful service!!!

Was a great way to introduce the Tall tales books I grew up with. Kids liked watching and then reading the books at first. By the time we got to the end of the series the kids had read ahead and were critiquing the shows.

I purchased this DVD for my sister. She loves the stories, and so do I.

Again, I think the adults enjoyed this DVD more than the grandkids. I don't believe I chose age appropriately so we will be tucking this one away for next summer too. Better quality though than what is currently available to show this generation of kids who are more likely to watch something than read a book about it. Granddaughter is 9 and grandson is 4, so maybe next year they will get more out of this.

I mainly bought this video because I use the poem "Casey at the Bat' in my social studies class, and I thought that the video would be a great reinforcement. The video version is so silly and corny that it almost made me hate one of my favorite poems! I wouldn't waste my class time to show the video! It would also insult my kids' intelligence!!

It's no wonder they don't make shows like this one anymore. My guess is that since the actors were already big stars, they didn't take this very seriously. As a result, I'm sure the directors couldn't push very hard. The different stories seem too long. The Storyteller series by The Jim Henson Company was 1000x better.