WELL-MEANING EURO-BONDING co-production featuring various forgettable dramatised fairytales but blessed with a supremely non-forgettable title sequence: a camp Robin Hood cartoon minstrel with lute shambling about boasting of his international narrative prowess and insisting “Oi am the Storoytollor/And moi storois must be told…” Had a different alias for each country’s production, apparently; in England he was, disappointingly, “John”. ISLA BLAIR did the narration stuff.
Storybook International
1983 to 1984 on ITV (HTV)
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