Famous Classic Tales — Season 1, Episode 1: Tales Of Washington Irving

Episode synopsis

Based on "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving

About Famous Classic Tales

Famous Classic Tales is a series that airs cartoons from production companies such as Filmation, Rankin-Bass, Ruby-Spears, Air Programs International, Hanna-Barbera, Hanna Barbera Australia, and Southern Star Group. Famous Classic Tales was shown on CBS, and distributed by Kids Klassics Home Video and Storybook World. It had cartoons from API's Family Classic Tales. Featured cartoons included adaptions of classic literature such as Gulliver's Travels, Treasure Island, Black Beauty, Moby-Dick, and many others. The creation of a series of animated features based on classic children's stories was conceived by Jack Thinnes, Media Director at Sive Advertising in Cincinnati, Ohio. The series was created for a Sive client, Kenner Products, and each program was fully sponsored by Kenner on CBS Television Network on Sunday, late afternoon or early evening, during the prime toy selling season before Christmas. The idea to use classic children's books sprang from Thinnes' viewing of a two minute demo of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which was produced by Walter Hucker's studio, API, of Sydney, Australia. API was purchased later by Hanna-Barbera Studios after Thinnes introduced the owners of the studios to one another. After the series ran on CBS for nearly ten years, it was moved into local syndication by Sive's syndication department. However, their adaptation of A Christmas Carol was such a favorite that it continued to run on the network for fifteen years.

More episodes from Season 1

• E2A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
• E3A Christmas Carol
• E4The Legend Of Robin Hood
• E5Treasure Island
• E6Travels of Marco Polo
• E7Robinson Crusoe
• E8The Prince and the Pauper
• E9The Count Of Monte Cristo
• E10Kidnapped
• E11The Swiss Family Robinson
• E12Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
• E13The Three Musketeers