High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Faerie Tale Theatre (also known as Shelley Duvall`s Faerie Tale Theatre) is a live-action children`s television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales. Shelley Duvall serves as narrator, host and executive producer of the program, and occasionally stars in episodes. The series was followed by another, shorter series called Tall Tales Legends which followed the same format as Faerie Tale Theatre and focused on classic American folk tales. Both series feature well known actors and directors, and were inspired by the children`s television series Shirley Temple Theatre (also known as The Shirley Temple Show and Shirley Temple`s Storybook).