Festival of Family Classics

Festival of Family Classics is a Rankin/Bass animated anthology series that originally aired between 1972 and 1973. The show originally aired in syndication. It was re-aired 1 November 2005 on the Boomerang channel and on 16 June 2011 via the Teletoon Retro network.

Festival of Family Classics is a series of television versions of famous folk tales and classic literature. 16 of the 18 episodes were 20 minutes long. The two 40 minutes-long episodes ("20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "Around the World in 80 Days") were split into two-parters, making 20 episodes in total. The episodes were animated by two Japanese animation studios: Mushi Production and Topcraft.

Videos have been distributed by several companies, including Prism Entertainment, Starmaker Video, EBM Group, and DreamWorks Classics. 12 episodes (including the two-parters as single episodes) have been released on DVD.

A similar series, Famous Classic Tales, aired on CBS from 1970 to 1984.

List of episodes

Voices

Home media

On VHS:

• Alice in Wonderland (Starmaker Entertainment (1989, US), Futurevision Ltd. (1986, UK), Prism Entertainment (1986, US))
• Sleeping Beauty (Starmaker Entertainment (1989, US)
• Snövit och De Sju Dvärgarna (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) (SWE-Ayamonte AB)
• Tom Sawyer (SWE-Ayamonte AB - 1995)

Classic Media released 10 episodes on 4 DVDs in between 2006–2007.

• The Princess Collection (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland)
• Classic Adventures Volume 1 (Around the World in 80 Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
• Classic Adventures Volume 2 (The Arabian Nights, Robin Hood)
• Classic Adventures Volume 3 (Swiss Family Robinson, Robinson Crusoe)

The 2002 DVD release of Here Comes Peter Cottontail features the "Puss in Boots" episode, and the Mad Mad Mad Monsters DVD includes the "Jack O' Lantern" episode.

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