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Hosted by Captain Kangaroo's Bob Keeshan, the episodes are half-hour animated adaptations of some of the most beloved children's books published at the time of airing, including How to Eat Fried Worms. Other episodes included Dragon's Blood and Ratha's Creature.
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1985
The story of a slightly imperfect older-model robot owned by a family that can't afford a newer mechanical butler.
A 12-year-old girl adopts a stray cat, unaware that the animal is on a mission to train her as a good witch, the only one born in this century.
""The Pig Plantagenet"" organizes his fellow creatures into a stampede when they are faced with extermination by the lord of a nearby mansion.
""Harry the Fat Bear Spy"" is ordered to find out why all the macaroons in Bearmania are coming out green, a task fraught with light-hearted danger.
""Hugh Pine"" is a porcupine who, unlike his fellow porcupines, learns how not to get run over while crossing roads.
Three street-smart mice are stymied by an evil cat as they try to rescue twin mice who disappeared in the perilous Windberry Lot.
1987
""Twist it once, you're horned and haired; Twist it twice and fangs are bared; Twist it thrice? No one has dared!"" Russell is sure that the ring is just a silly magic trick, but he follows the instructions and twists the ring twice anyway - and becomes a monster!
1985
A raccoon community is faced with a reduced garbage and natural-food supply.
This story is a thousand years older than the familiar Cinderella story.
A rabbit, dissatisfied with the tail that nature gave him, assumes the tails of other animals.
A boy named Billy bets that he can eat a worm a day for 15 days.
Zucchini, a rare black-footed ferret, escapes from the zoo he was born in to look for his real home on the prairie.
Hank the Cowdog, the intrepid head of ranch security, faces a challenge from a chicken killer on the loose.
Walter Fozbek wakes up in a world inhabited by dinosaurs where humans have been extinct for a million years.
The first known case of ""Chocolate Fever"" occurs in a boy who dotes on the stuff and suddenly breaks out in little brown spots.
A bonded orphan on a distant planet vows to earn his freedom by training a dragon to be a champion fighter.
""Arnold of the Ducks"" is a lost boy who is found by ducks and reared as their own.