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Disney's Sing Me a Story with Belle is an American live-action/animated television series created by Patrick Davidson and Melissa Gould. The series features Belle from Disney's 1991 animated feature film Beauty and the Beast, who now owns and manages the bookshop in the village. She is usually greeted by children who would like to hear a story. Belle interacts with the children and narrates vintage Disney animated shorts while doing activities around the bookstore. The series premiered on September 8, 1995, on Disney Channel.




Development


According to Ken Weiner, vice president at Buena Vista Television, using vintage Disney animated shorts allows the show to present a higher quality of animation than would normally be feasible in an educational show that would meet the Federal Communications Commission's E/I standards.
By early 1995, it was said that the show would present two short films per episode (with updated music and voices), which Belle and the children would sometimes interrupt for discussion purposes or to "test cognitive abilities".




Plot


Belle (Lynsey McLeod) lives in France and owns her own book and music shop after marrying her Prince. Helping her at the bookstore are Lewis and Carroll, two magical bookworms, Harmony the Cat and Big Book, a large talking book on a book stand. The bookstore is visited by local children to whom Belle will sing songs and tell stories, usually with a moral relating to something that's happened that day. The show's format bears resemblance to Adventures in Wonderland in nature with some valuable lessons borrowed from Sesame Street like never giving up and working together.
Clips from vintage Disney cartoons would often be used to illustrate the stories, including:

Mickey's Rival
The Cookie Carnival
Goliath II
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
Music Land




Cast


Lynsey McLeod - Belle from Beauty and the Beast
Tim Goodwin - Brioche
Jacob Chase - Jacob
Kirsten Storms - Kirsten
Shawn Pyfrom - Shawn
Hampton Dixon - 'Little' Hampton
Jennifer Jesse - Jennifer
Natalie Trott - Natalie
Julie Vanlue - Julie
Kerry Anne Bradford - Kerry Anne
Chris Robles - Chris
J. J. Ward - J. J.
Lindsay Louie - Lindsay
Trevor Mann - Trevor
Holly Arnstein - Holly
Victoria Gregson - Victoria
Justin Chapman - Justin
Crysta Macalush - Crysta
Faryn Einhorn - Faryn
Corey Hayes - Corey
Thea Cabreros - Thea
Kristian Truelsen - Uncle Zack
Wolf Bauer - Gaston (1 episode, "What's Inside Counts")
Cyndi Vicino - Inez
Mary Pat Gleason - Madame Soufflé
Lindsey Alley - Miss Woohoo




= Voices

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Mary Kay Bergman - Fifi, Hansel & Gretel, Elf, Witch
Christine Cavanaugh - Carroll the Book Worm
Jeff Conover - Harmony the Cat
Jim Cummings - Big Book, Lewis the Book Worm
Wayne Allwine - Mickey Mouse
Tony Anselmo - Donald Duck
Bill Farmer - Goofy, Pluto, Practical Pig
Russi Taylor - Minnie Mouse
Maurice LaMarche - Mortimer Mouse, Joe Giraffe
Tress MacNeille - Lambs, Tillie Tiger
Corey Burton - Ghosts
Will Ryan - Willie the Giant
TBA - The Golden Harp




Episodes (including featured animated subjects)






Syndication


This series premiered in First-run syndication in select markets as a sneak preview on September 8, 1995. In August 1996, two videos featuring two episodes each were released as part of the Disney Princess Collection: Chapters of Enchantment and Beauty and the World of Music. In August 1999, two episodes from the first season were released with an episode of an abandoned Beauty and the Beast animated series on the direct-to-video film Belle's Tales of Friendship.
Two episodes were also featured separately as an extra in both the 2011 re-release of Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, and Belle's Magical World.




References






External links


Sing Me A Story With Belle official webpage via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Sing Me A Story With Belle clips via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Sing Me A Story With Belle at IMDb
Retrojunk section on Sing Me A Story With Belle, includes video of the opening sequence

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