Rabbit Ears Productions
Rabbit Ears Productions is a production company best known for producing three television series that feature individual episodes adapting popular pieces of children's literature. Rabbit Ears episodes have been released on home video, broadcast on Showtime, and reran on PBS. The series features actors such as Robin Williams, Raul Julia, Laura Dern, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, John Hurt, Danny Glover, and others narrating children's books either well known in the United States or from around the world. The series made use of a limited animation technique whereby still images were moved throughout the scene, similar to modern motion comics. Rabbit Ears Productions has also won numerous awards, including Parents' Choice Awards and Grammy Awards.
Rabbit Ears Productions | |
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Starring | Denzel Washington Robin Williams Jack Nicholson Geena Davis Danny Glover Whoopi Goldberg John Candy Meryl Streep Susan Saint James Amy Grant Glenn Close Morgan Freeman Jonathan Winters Kelly McGillis Anjelica Huston Laura Dern Michael Keaton Sissy Spacek |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 65 |
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Executive producers | Mark Sottnick and Mike Pogue |
Running time | 30 minutes per episode |
Original release | |
Network | Direct-to-video Showtime |
Most of the stories on VHS video and DVD were distributed by BMG Video/BMG Special Products and BMG Kidz.