Tall Tales & Legends is a series created by Shelley Duvall

Shelley Duvall

Shelley Alexis Duvall is an American film and television actress best known for her roles in The Shining, Popeye, Thieves Like Us and 3 Women....

, following her success with her first series, Faerie Tale Theatre

Faerie Tale Theatre

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...

. It ran from 1985

1985 in television

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-1987

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 on Showtime and comprised nine episodes, adapted from various American-based stories of bravery.

Episodes

1. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
   The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
   "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820...
   
   
2. Pecos Bill
   Pecos Bill
   Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. Their stories were probably invented into short stories and book by Edward O'Reilly in the...
   
   
3. Casey at Bat
4. Darlin' Clementine
5. Johnny Appleseed
   Johnny Appleseed
   Johnny Appleseed , born John Chapman, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois...
   
   
6. Ponce De Leon
   Ponce de León
   -People:* Juan Ponce de León, a Spanish explorer of the Americas and first Governor of Puerto Rico* Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the son of Juan Ponce de León II, and early settler of Ponce, Puerto Rico...
   
   
7. John Henry
   John Henry (folklore)
   John Henry is an American folk hero and tall tale. Henry worked as a "steel-driver"—a man tasked with hammering and chiseling rock in the construction of tunnels for railroad tracks. In the legend, John Henry's prowess as a steel-driver was measured in a race against a steam powered hammer,...
   
   
8. Davy Crockett
   Davy Crockett
   David "Davy" Crockett was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S...
   
   
9. Annie Oakley
   Annie Oakley
   Annie Oakley , born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar.Oakley's most famous trick is perhaps...
   
   

Home video

Several episodes were issued on VHS

VHS

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 by CBS/Fox Video

CBS/Fox Video

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 in the 1980s. Koch Entertainment

Koch Entertainment

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 issued the entire series on DVD

DVD

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 in 2005. The episodes were available as separate DVDs or together as a nine-disc box set. The complete series was issued again, this time in a three-DVD set, by E1 Entertainment in 2009.

• Schlessinger Media production / Juvenile animation circa 2006: by produced and directed by Top Dog Media; executive producer/director, Ray Messecar ; written by Ray Messecar, Carol Ann Messecar. Annie Oakley: Pecos Bill: John Henry: Davy Crockett: Johnny Appleseed: