It was kinda creepy and I think it took place in a witches cavern and she would kidnap kids and make them read books to her..I think.. Later the same gal who played the witch had a show where she was an evil space witch too. ????????????????????? :?

****update she kidnapped the librarian****

I'm bumping this srry....but I do remember this show as well and am in desperate need of any more info...Ive searched all over the net and have come up with nada...Please help......


Thanx in Advance........

It sounds like "Dark Tales" the TV show to me
but I'm most likely wrong.

I remember this show. I had to watch it in school. The witch kidnapped a librarian and made the librarian read books to her. The librarian had a machine that she would put objects in and a book would come out the other side. She would then read the story which had the objects she put in the machine in the story somehow. I think it was called "The Witch and the Librarian" but I'm not totally sure. Totally 80's

You are all over it Dr that is the exact show.. then later the gal who was the witch did a show where she was some sort of maniacle space alien who did the same thing as the witch.

Thanx Dr...but unfortunatley no hits off of major search engines...oh well,,thanx a bunch....

I know EXACTLY the shows you're talking about. But first, a quick story to give you some background info.

Back in the early-mid 70's, NBC had spent a load of dough to convert their classic "Peacock" logo to a streamlined looking "N". However, NBC forgot to take into account that the Nebraska Public Television Network had a nearly identical logo for years. NBC managed to avoid a messy lawsuit by paying NPTV some money in an out-of-court settlement, as well as donating a bunch of state-of-the-art (for the time) TV production equipment.

And, from their Channel 26 studios located from the A/V section at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, they created several original educational TV programs.

The one you're thinking of is called "Once Upon A Time", where a witch kidnapped a librarian and kept her in the dungeon of her tower with a machine that would produce books based on whatever story elements were placed into it.

The other show you're thinking of was called "Star Lore", made by the same people who did OUAT, where an alien queen kidnapped a librarian (I sense a subliminal desire for kidnapping here) and taken her back to her home planet "until the children of her world are able to have imaginations". Instead of a bookmaking machine this time, the heroine had the aid of a computer named 1Z2Z.

This group did a lot of shows for NPTV's Schools Telelearning Service (they were like a Midwestern version of the Children's Television Workshop), and they still show these programs (well, they OWN the shows, so of course they can afford to air them as long as they like).

Not to brag, but a few years back, I managed to get in touch with the agency that holds these shows and after a bit of coaxing, was able to get them to dub a select few of them from the original masters onto S-VHS (which I then transfered to DVD-R for my personal nostaglia use). It's still a blast to look at these things I thought were pretty weird as a kid then and even weirder still as an adult. If you have Cox Digital cable in Omaha, KB, check out the NPTV digital channels for the afternoons. They're usually hidden there under a long generic "Instructional Programming" block (I'm in Council Bluffs and get the same Cox schedule).

PS: Of the whole bunch, I thought "Reverse The Curse" was the coolest.

Outstanding Fear!! That is exaclty it..! I am so excited. .. I am also from Omaha. Thanks Bro..!