Mother Goose Stories 1-Disc Box Set DVD

Mother Goose Stories is the early-1990s Disney Channel preschool series produced by Jim Henson Productions, in which the iconic puppet Mother Goose narrates and brings to life a rotating set of classic Mother Goose nursery rhymes, with each half-hour bundling three short rhyme-based segments together. The show ran on the Disney Channel across 1990 through 1994, with episodes that pair Henson's specific puppet performance with the kind of gentle storybook narration that the youngest preschoolers respond to.

What stands out is the show's commitment to honoring the source rhymes. Each segment treats one specific nursery rhyme as a self-contained story, the puppet performance keeps the Henson Company's unmistakable style and timing, and the writing trusts very young viewers to absorb the rhyme without modern reinterpretation. The production has the warm, soft-lit Disney Channel preschool look of the period.

It belongs to a specific early-90s Disney Channel and Jim Henson Productions partnership wave, the same family of carefully-produced literary-derived puppet shows that the studios were creating for early-decade preschool slates. For viewers who first met these specific Mother Goose puppets on the Disney Channel during that period, this collection captures the version that built the memory.

Highlights in the collection include "Hickory Dickory Dock," "Hey Diddle Diddle," "Song Of Sixpence," "Jack And Jill," "Little Bo Peep," "Old King Cole," "Mary, Mary," "Baa Baa Blacksheep," "Eensy Weensy," "Jack Horner," and "Humpty Dumpty," rhyme-segments that capture both the show's quietest readings and its biggest character-driven set pieces. This 1-DVD collection gathers 13 episodes from the run, a representative archival home for Mother Goose Stories.