Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories (also known as Bedtime Stories) is a 1992 American live-action/animated anthology television series that originally aired on Showtime. The series, hosted by Duvall, was a showcase of short animated adaptations of children's books with narration provided by celebrity guests. The VHSs are released by Universal Studios Home Video but are closed-captioned by the National Captioning Institute instead of Captions, Inc.

Format
Shelley Duvall hosts a showcase of animated adaptations of children's books from her pop-up book bedroom. The first season's hosting segments are limited to Duvall herself, but in the second season a lamp named Clicker and a Clock named Ticker were added to the segments. Each episode would typically contain two segments where Duvall would introduce the book which would then transition to an animated segment read by a celebrity guest narrator. Guests who appeared on the show included: Ringo Starr, Bette Midler, Dudley Moore, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bonnie Raitt, Sissy Spacek, Michael J. Fox, Martin Short and James Earl Jones

Cast

 * Shelley Duvall as herself/host
 * B.J. Ward as Clicker the Lamp
 * Jeff Bennett Ticker the Clock

Accolades
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in the 44th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1992 but lost to A Claymation Easter on CBS.