The show was originally made for the British TV station TSW in 1987. While three series were produced consisting of eight-minute stories, the network ultimately passed on it. Three episodes were released on home video a year later as part of the Jim Henson's Play-Along Video series. It wasn't until 1990 when the show made its TV debut on the Disney Channel in a half-hour format.
Fifteen of the stories were adapted from L. Frank Baum's "Mother Goose in Prose." Excluded from that source were "The Wond'rous Wise Man," "The Little Man and His Little Gun," "Tom, The Piper's Son," "The Woman Who Lived in a Shoe," "Three Wise Men of Gotham," and "Little Bun Rabbit." Written new for the series in a simlar style were "Willie Winkie," "Pat-a-Cake," "The Giant," "It's Raining, It's Pouring," "Queen of Hearts," "Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross," "Hickety Pickety," "Tommy Tittlemouse," "Mother Hubbard," "Jack & Jill," "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," "Mary's Lamb," "Margery Daw," "Hector Protector," "Dicky Birds," "Rub a Dub Dub," "Duke of York," "Eenie Meenie," "Little Nut Tree," "Little Girl with a Little Curl," "Crooked Man," "Eensy Weensy Spider," "Jack be Nimble," and "Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater." Baum was not given screen credit nor credit on the video box, but the original promtional material acknowledged the source and that the sets were based on Maxfield Parrish's artwork for that book.
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