Wolves Witches and Giants, narrated by Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan

Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan Hon. KBE was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the...

, is a children's

Children's television series

Children's television series, are commercial television programs designed for, and marketed to children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school...

 cartoon series

Cartoon series

A cartoon series is a set of regularly presented animated television programs with a common series title, usually related to one another. These episodes typically share the same characters and a basic theme...

 of humorous adaptations of classic fairy tale

Fairy tale

A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories refer to fairies...

s, featuring a collection of villain

Villain

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s including the Big Bad Wolf

Big Bad Wolf

The Big Bad Wolf is a term used to describe a fictional wolf who appears in several precautionary folkloric stories, including some of Aesop's Fables and Grimm's Fairy Tales.-Interpretations:...

 as a wily wolf, a wicked witch and an enormous giant. It was written by musician

Musician

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 Ed Welch

Ed Welch

Edward William "Ed" Welch is an English television composer.-Career:In 1971, he recorded an album, Clowns, including songs he had co-written with Tom Paxton, and session musicians including Mike de Albuquerque and Cozy Powell. In 1972, acted as producer on a version of “I Don't Know How to Love...

, based on an LP

LP album

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, also performed by Milligan. The Directors and Producers were Simon & Sara Bor of Honeycomb Animation. There were 4 series of 13 episodes and 3 specials produced for ITV

ITV

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 from 1995-9. The Citv channel revived the series in 2008 where it still runs.

It included such remakes of tales such as Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood, also known as Little Red Cap, is a French fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. The story has been changed considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings....

, Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault or Little Briar Rose by the Brothers Grimm is a classic fairytale involving a beautiful princess, enchantment, and a handsome prince...

, Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel

"Hansel and Gretel" is a well-known fairy tale of German origin, recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812. Hansel and Gretel are a young brother and sister threatened by a cannibalistic hag living deep in the forest in a house constructed of cake and confectionery. The two children...

, Cinderella

Cinderella

"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...

, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

It was made by the same producers that made the original Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids

' is a series of books by Jamie Rix and a TV series produced for ITV.The original TV series was based on the award winning collections of cautionary tales by Jamie Rix. Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids, Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids and More Grizzly Tales for...

, Tube Mice, Binka, Funky Valley and the new series of Grizzly Tales

Although being based in Medieval times

Middle Ages

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, it has featured some modern equipment, such as the Big Bad Wolf driving a blue sports car

Sports car

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, a tailor

Tailor

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 playing on a handheld game console

Handheld game console

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, Little Red Riding Hood's bed-ridden grandmother watching an Australian soap

Soap opera

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 on her TV, or the Wicked Witch using a microwave

Microwave oven

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.

Partial Episode list

The Elves and the Shoemaker

The Wolf and the Seven Kids

Snow White

Beauty and the Beast

Little Red Riding Hood

The Little Snow Girl

The Little Red Hen

The Giant and the Apprentice

The Three Little Pigs

Peter and the Wolf

Puss in Boots

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

The Little Mermaid

The Little Tailor

The Wolf and the Horse

The Giant with the Golden Hair

The Witch and the Mill

Jack and the Beanstalk

Goldilocks

The Sleeping Beauty

The Snowqueen

Rapunzel

The Wolf and the Fox

The Witch and the Comb

Billy's Halloween

Hansel and Gretel

Sweet and Sour

The Three Wishes

Tom Thumb

Giant who Sucked his Thumb

Giant who put out the sun

Giant with Golden Hiar

Matchbox

Babes in the Wood

Four Musicians of Broom

Wolf in Sheep's Clothin

Hunchback of Nottingham

Jack the Giant Killer

The Wolf and the Duckling

Big Tales

Magic Tales

Tim Tot Tim

Wiley Tales

Alibaba and the forty fifth thhieve

Pinocchio

Molly and the Giant

Diamonds and Toads

Princess and the Pea

Cinderella