The BEST episodes directed by Steve Barron
#1 - Part Two
Treasure Island (2012) - Season 1 - Episode 2
Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver are forced to choose between the elusive treasure and their lives, as danger lurks behind every corner on their quest to reach the loot.
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#2 - Part One
Treasure Island (2012) - Season 1 - Episode 1
Teenager Jim Hawkins, Captain Smollett, Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey prepare to set sail in search of an elusive hoard of gold, following the discovery of a treasure map that once belonged to a notorious pirate. Unfortunately, crew member Long John Silver wants the riches for himself, and persuades his fellow sailors to back him in a mutiny.
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#3 - Part Two
Merlin (1998) - Season 1 - Episode 2
In the Dark Ages, Merlin the magician finds himself in opposition to Queen Mab and her cohorts
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#4 - Fearnot
Jim Henson's The Storyteller - Season 1 - Episode 2
From an early German folk tale. The Storyteller recounts the adventures of a boy who goes out into the world to learn what fear is.
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#5 - Hans My Hedgehog
Jim Henson's The Storyteller - Season 1 - Episode 5
From an early German folk tale. A farmer's wife drives her husband mad with her desperate measures to have a baby. On the advice of the village Midwife, she tries sleeping upside down, bathing in nettles and so on. She wants a baby so badly that she doesn't care what she gets, even a hedgehog. That, of course, is she gets: a baby covered in quills, as soft as feathers. His mother calls him 'Hans My Hedgehog' and she is the only one to love him. The farmer grows to hate him, people laugh at him and children call him names, like 'Grovelhog'. Finally, Hans asks his father for a saddle for his rooster (which is the size of a small horse), so that Hans can leave for a place where he can't hurt anyone and where no one can hurt him. Twenty years later, a king gets lost in a dark forest. Coming to a strange palace he asks the owner, the now grown Grovelhog, for food and a place to sleep. The king wants to reward his host, and asks him to name the gift he desires.
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#6 - Part One
Merlin (1998) - Season 1 - Episode 1
Before Excalibur, before the Knights of the Round Table, before Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and Galahad, there was a Sorcerer Shrouded in the mists of Avalon...and this is his Tale.
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#7 - Sapsorrow
Jim Henson's The Storyteller - Season 1 - Episode 7
A king has three daughters, two bad and one good, the good daughter has many friends in the animal friends that hide in her pockets, under her bed and in her room. As there is no queen and by tradition the king cannot marry until a special ring is worn. All come to try and none can fit the unusual ring. The two bad daughters, fearing a new step-mother will get their inheritance, decide to try the ring themselves to stop their father from ever marrying. The youngest, good daughter comes along and when their father turns up hides the ring on her finger - her ring finger and it fits. She cannot marry her father, but she cannot ignore the law. Locked in her room, the princess says she will not marry until a dress, a special dress is made; this will take time and meanwhile she asks her animal friends to help her as she hatches a plan. Then another dress has to be found for wedding feast, but a third is needed for the church.
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#9 - Part 1
Delete - Season 1 - Episode 1
A viral threat almost triggers a nuclear reactor meltdown, giving reporter Jessica Taylor and her hacker friend Daniel an inside track on a grim reality: an artificial intelligence has become a conscious entity with the sole purpose of destroying the world one disaster at a time.
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