Masha's Tales

2011
4.0
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Season 1 episodes (13)

1 Red Riding Hood/Go I Know Not Whither
5/10/11
Season-only
Mom asked Red Riding Hood to carry some cakes to her grandmother. The cakes smelled so delicious that the girl decided to sit on a stump to eat a pie. / All children like to listen to stories. Masha , it turns out, is very fond of telling them!!! Storyteller Mary tells a new children's fairy tale " Go I Know Not Whiter...
2 Cinderella/The Humpbacked Horse
5/10/11
Season-only
Masha tells her version of the fairy tale about the poor girl called Cinderella. She lived with her stepmother who forced her to work till dawn. / Masha tells the fairy tale in verse about Ivanushka the Fool, Krokomotae monster and his grandson Humpbacked Horse. In Masha's version of the tale the Humpbacked Horse fulfills the Ivanushka's love wish.
3 The Snow Maiden/Father Frost
5/10/11
Season-only
Masha tells the Russian fairy tale about the Snow Maiden which was molded by Grandmother and Grandfather. The Snow Maiden grew very fast. / One angry woman had two daughters one of her own and the second one a stepdaughter. The woman pampered her own daughter and forced the stepdaughter to work very hard.
4 By the Pike's Wish/The Wolf and the Fox
5/10/11
Season-only
This story is about Yemelya, his lazy wife and pike, which plays the role of a goldfish in this story. The moral of the story: before making a wish, it is necessary to think about the consequences for you and people around you. / Once upon a time there lived a fisherman with his wife. Nearby there lived the Fox. One day the man went to a frozen pond to fish. On his way he found the Fox, who pretended to be dead, and picked her up.
5 Ali Baba/Wee Little Havroshechka
5/10/11
Season-only
This story is about one very kind, but very poor Ali-Baba and his rich but greedy brother Kasym. Once upon a time Ali-Baba overheard the magic spell, which opens up the magic cape with numerous treasures. / There lived a woman who had three daughters - two of her own and the stepdaughter called Wee Little Havroshechka. She loved her own daughters and hated the stepdaughter who was forced to work till dawn.
6 The Swineherd/The Golden Cockerel
5/10/11
Season-only
Masha tells the fairy tale called "The Swineherd" with the unexpected moral: even the most expensive things will not make the human out of a pig. / Once there lived an old man, who had no one but the Golden Cockerel. Once upon a time the spiteful goat settled near the old man's house.
7 The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids/The Tops and the Roots
5/10/11
Season-only
This educative tale teaches us that caution should never be dismissed. Mother-Goat goes to pick up cabbage, leaving her seven kids alone at home. / There was a village and a man, living in this village. In a deep forest near that village, the Bear settled in. The Bear asked the man for some tasty treats. The man gave the Bear two options of what he prefers to eat: the tops or the roots.
8 Tom Thumb/The Magic Swan Geese
5/10/11
Season-only
This is a story about the small but brave boy. The moral of the story is that no matter how big and tall you are, you should not offend the little ones. / The story tells how important it is to listen to the elders. Alyonushka and her brother Ivanushka went to the forest disobeying the parents. The children met the magical stove and the talking apple tree.
9 Three Little Pigs/Caliph Stork
5/10/11
Season-only
In an enchanted forest there once lived three little piglets. They were very noisy and naughty, constantly laughing and playing music. Other forest creatures - their neighbours, got really tired of the piglet's shenanigans and expelled them from the forest. / This tale tells us about one Caliph from the East, who used to sit all day long in front of the window and listen to the birds chirping. Caliph was very powerful, but there was one thing that disappointed him - he could not understand the bird's language.
10 The Frog Princess/The Fox and the Rabbit
5/10/11
Season-only
There lived a Tsar with his three sons. The oldest son married on nobleman's daughter, the second one married the merchant's daughter, while the youngest son - on the Frog. / The Fox had a hut made of ice, while the Rabbit - a wooden one. When spring has arrived, the Fox's hut melted away, so she decided to move into the Rabbit's hut and kick him out from his own home.
11 Axe Porridge/Jack and the Beanstalk
5/10/11
Season-only
Masha tells the fairy tale about proper nutrition, giving as an example the story about Baba Yaga and the Soldier. The Soldier was on his way home and got very hungry. He sat on the stump and suddenly noticed Baba Yaga's small hut. / There lived a boy called Jack. He was so poor that no girl would want to marry him. One day he went to the market to sell the cow and buy himself a suit. On his way to the market Jack met an old man, who offered him to buy a cow for a bean seed.
12 Bluebeard/The Straw Bull-Calf
5/10/11
Season-only
There lived a Bluebeard man who once went for a walk and met a girl with blue hair. Somehow the Bluebeard man found himself locked in a dark closet. He was very sad until he found the secret door with numerous sweets inside. / There once lived a very old man with his wife. They were very lonely as they had neither children of their own nor grandchildren. Thus, the old man decided to make a bull made of straw to present to his wife.
13 The Valiant Little Tailor/The Fox and the Rolling Pin
5/10/11
Season-only
This fairy tale is about one little and witty tailor, who had a chance to defeat the giant and obtain a fridge full of sweets. So he ate all of them at once. / This is the story about the Fox, the Cat and the Rooster. The sneaky Fox wanted to fool the Cat in order to eat the Rooster and get a rolling-pin. No matter how the Fox tried to butter up the Cat, he denied hand over the Rooster to the Fox.

About this show

Masha’s Tales is an extraordinary series, where she tells popular fairy tales in a childlike manner, mixing up both story lines and characters, but always coming up with original advice.

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