Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories (also known as Bedtime Stories) is an American live-action/animated anthology television series that originally ran on Showtime from April 21, 1992 to December 11, 1994. The series, hosted by Shelley Duvall, was a showcase of short animated adaptations of children's books with narration provided by celebrity guests. The VHS tapes were released by MCA/Universal Home Video, but were closed-captioned by the National Captioning Institute instead of Captions, Inc.
Shelley Duvall hosts a showcase of animated adaptations of children's books from her pop-up book bedroom. The first season's hosting segments are limited to Duvall herself, but in the second season a lamp named Clicker and a Clock named Ticker were added to the segments.
Each episode would typically contain two segments where Duvall would introduce the book which would then transition to an animated segment read by a celebrity guest narrator. Guests who appeared on the show included: Ringo Starr, Bette Midler, Dudley Moore, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bonnie Raitt, Sissy Spacek, Michael J. Fox, Martin Short and James Earl Jones
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in the 44th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1992 but lost to A Claymation Easter on CBS.