Wed, Jan 27, 1988
A sickened king is told he needs the Water of Life from the Evil Forest to recover. His elder selfish son Franz seeks it to reclaim his inheritance from his brother. But after insulting and threatening a gnome, he is trapped in the Valley of No Return. Prince Joesf goes and gets the gnome's help for his respect, and is directed by the North Wind. He enters an enchanted castle which appears periodically, rescues an imprisoned princess whom he falls in love with, and collects the water. But on the way back through the valley he rescues Franz, who replaces his water with a poisoned supply so Josef will be suspected of treachery.
Wed, Feb 10, 1988
When Jorinde and her fiancé Joringle visit the woods, its witch they unknowingly encountered earlier draws them to her home and turns Jorinde into a nightingale and takes her as she does every maid she meets. After being unable to move to stop it, Joringle is driven out of the woods by her magic with only a puzzling message from Jorinde, and can't see a way to best the magic to free her.
Wed, Mar 16, 1988
Princess Genevieve keeps dancing the night through, which the king only knows since she goes through a large supply of shoes. He begins to guard her to learn how, only for her sisters Julia and Louise to convince her to let them join her. Their father confines them to their chamber doubting they were in the castle since no one saw them, but it stops nothing. He offers one of their hands to the man who can discover their secret in three nights but imprisonment for those who cannot, and the princesses give every watcher wine with sleeping potion. When foreign veteran Peter takes the challenge, he does not take the drink and follows them. But under the castle he finds a dreadful truth even the sisters don't know.
1988
A rich party in attacked is a forest by a witch and her goblins. One young servant, Lisabeth, escapes and meets a talking owl who gives her a key to locks hidden in the landscape opening to everything needed to survive and fine clothing. But her friend leaves every night. When Lisabeth presses for the reason, he explains that the witch has cursed him, and she offers to free him. She is told to enter the witch's home to find a hidden ring, making no noise. But though she enters when the witch is gone as instructed, the witch returns to fight with her magic and goblins.
Sun, Dec 11, 1988
Lost in an enchanted forest during a hunt, a king is forced by a woman to wed her daughter who helps him leave, but both are witches. After his bride attacks his seven children, he has them stay in a small castle in another forest. But she sees where the king keeps the spindle that guides him to them, goes disguised as him, and uses cursed shirts to change his sons into swans. Having missed it, his daughter learns from them that they can turn back if she sews them shirts of chrysanthemums and is silent for six years, and agrees to. During that time a prince falls in love with and marries Elise, and they have a son. But her stepmother finds her, kidnaps the baby and causes blood to appear on Elise's lips so she appears to have eaten him, and convinces the prince she is a witch.
Wed, Feb 3, 1988
Josephine's dreams of marrying a prince seem to come true when one sends for her in her forest home. Though her brothers are wary of her wedding a man none of them has met, she accepts eagerly - but is startled by his striking beard of blue. The prince, who provides Josephine with every luxury until she becomes haughty, has only one locked, mismatched room in his castle he will not discuss. When he leaves her with his keys and instructions to see that one is not used, Josephine is lured by it to the forbidden room, and a terrible secret.
Wed, Jan 20, 1988
A soldier is unjustly compensated by his money-loving king and princess. Forced to fend for himself, he meets five remarkable friends: a strongman, one who can run faster than any other human, one whose bare head can create ice and snow, one whose breath extends for a distance, and one who can see and shoot for miles. The soldier inspires them to follow him, then they decide to stop the cruelty of the country's rulers.