Pinocchio

Kindly Old Geppetto runs a local toy shop, fashioning toys of all kind. One night, a fairy hears Geppetto wishing that the puppet he is crafting were real. The fairy makes the puppet come to life. At this realization, Geppetto is happy: now, he won't be poor any more. In no time, he's made a deal with a local TV station to put Pinocchio on TV. But the little puppet only wants to do a brave deed and be a real boy. It seems that his dream will be lost until he proclaims the bravest deed of all: he'll do the show without cue cards. However, this turns him into a real boy, and the show now has no "hook."

Pinocchio, Geppetto, TV Director, Cameraman, J. Quincey Flogg, Good Fairy

This episode was originally broadcast on the Rocky and His Friends show.

Fractured Fairy Tales was narrated by famous character actor Edward Everett Horton and lampooned such classic tales as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Frog Prince (the latter of which was spun off into the later series The Adventures of Hoppity Hooper).