[trilobitian]

Hi, I am looking for anyone who might be able to help me find the name of this old obscure children's video that I used to watch when I was a child in the mid to late 80's.

Here's what I remember of it:
The cover of the VHS video case was mostly grayis (with faded background images of scenes from the video) and there was a lady (the host?) of the show in the center foreground of the cover. I remember distinctly her red curly hair. (My mom thinks she remembers this as Shari Lewis or possibly Shirley Maclaine but I'm questioning this after the immense amount of research I've done.)

It was VERY colorful. I thought it was made in the 80's but my mom thinks it was made in the 70's and this would make sense with the extreme amount of color that was in this show.

It was live action- NOT animated. If indeed the host was Shari Lewis she did NOT have her puppets lamp chop and friends. However, the reason I am doubting that this is Shari Lewis is that everything she did before Lambchop was in black and white, and since my memory of this show was vivid color this doesn't make sense.

It was set in sort of a fairy tale land maybe? My mom remembers that there were toys that came to life and there was a little girl that basically followed this lady with curly red hair around in complete awe. The thing I most vividly remember is that there were colorful fairy dancers (who were definitely wearing tights). They were real people dressed up, not puppets or animated.

There may have been singing.

My mom also recalls that the host lady was wearing a clown suit or suspenders or both.

It was a very random show and as far as me and my mom can remember it didn't really have a plot, however, I was really young, and I think plot would have escaped me if it was there. It was the colors that I remember so vividly, as I said before.

I know that it is NOT "Wee Sing songs in Sillyville", HOWEVER, that show is extremely SIMILAR to the one that I'm looking for. In fact the "green kids" outfits sparked a memory similar to the colorful dancing people I'm remembering from this video. Plus, the cover of the video isn't right.

Any help I can get would be immensely appreciated. This nostalgic memory won't leave me alone until I figure out what this movie was, I'm afraid. I've been solidly researching what it might be for a good 3 weeks now.


Thank you so much,

Trilobitian