The first season of sixteen black-and-white and colored episodes aired on NBC between January 12 and December 21, 1958 as Shirley Temple's Storybook.

[1] The second season of twenty-five color episodes aired on NBC as The Shirley Temple Show between September 18, 1960 and July 16, 1961 in much the same format.

A fourth book, Shirley Temple's Favorite Tales of Long Ago (illustrated and published by Random House in 1958) includes "The Magic Fishbone", "The Nightingale", "The Valiant Little Tailor", and "The Little Lame Prince".

Wood Knapp Video re-released thirteen of the episodes from the first season in extended play speed on VHS tape.

The episodes were "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", "Hiawatha", "The Land of Green Ginger", "The Magic Fishbone", "The Nightingale", "Rapunzel", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Lame Prince", "Mother Goose", "Rip Van Winkle", "The Sleeping Beauty", "The Wild Swans", and "Dick Wittington and His Cat".