# Dancing Storybook

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{{Short description|Canadian children's television series}}
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| writer               = Marian Waldman
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| channel              = [CBC Television](/source/CBC_Television)
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| producer             = Neil Harris
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'''''Dancing Storybook''''' is a [Canadian](/source/Television_in_Canada) children's television series which aired on [CBC Television](/source/CBC_Television) in 1959.

==Premise==
This Winnipeg-produced children's show featured performances from the [Royal Winnipeg Ballet](/source/Royal_Winnipeg_Ballet), who previously performed in CBC's ''[Toes in Tempo](/source/Toes_in_Tempo)'' series.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1eYxAAAAIBAJ&pg=7288%2C6229107 | newspaper=Ottawa Citizen | date=28 March 1959 | page=TV Guide 9 | title=Program Previews | accessdate=7 January 2015}}</ref> The series plot involves two youths, Woody (Wally Martin) and Sue (Sheila McKinnon), who look for a patch from their father's magic jacket.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=thwxAAAAIBAJ&pg=5567%2C2430317 | newspaper=Ottawa Citizen | date=11 April 1959 | title=Program Previews | page=TV Guide 9 }}</ref> [Eric Wild](/source/Eric_Wild_(conductor)), principal conductor of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet at that time, was the series musical director.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Dan.html | first=Blaine | last=Allan | title=Dancing Storybook | publisher=[Queen's University](/source/Queen's_University_at_Kingston) | year=1996 | accessdate=7 January 2015 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114075939/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Dan.html | archivedate=14 January 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Scheduling==
The half-hour series aired on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. from 1 April to 24 June 1959.

==References==
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Category:CBC Television original programming
Category:1959 Canadian television series debuts
Category:1959 Canadian television series endings
Category:1950s Canadian children's television series
Category:Black-and-white Canadian television shows
Category:English-language Canadian television shows

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