The Singing Ringing Tree

Do you remember this East German fairy tale?

In hushed conversations around Britain, devotees of the Singing Ringing Tree, now perhaps in their late thirties or early forties, try to come to terms with one of the great traumas of postwar childhood. This programme reveals why it was that the BBC saw fit to import a terrifying Communist fairy tale, and why the East Germans themselves struggled to work out how a superbly arrogant princess and lots of strange magical animals could promote world revolution.

Comments

[Gordon]

I remember this from my childhood in the sixties.

I recall being quite scared of it especially the dwarf charecter. For years I thought I was the only one to remember this & the only one to be scared of what was after all suposed to be a childrens program. I now find a hole generation thought the same.

Gogs...

[marialette de haas]

We gave the Singing Ringing Tree - DVD to a friend who remembered it from long time ago. After watching it he was a tad confused - he said that he distinctly remembered the bear being nasty to the princes being tied to the tree.
Is he the only one who thinks that the series he saw on TV long time ago is different (maybe edited) from the recent DVD?
Please let me know. He think's he's going gaga.

[marialette de haas]

We have the Singing Ringing Tree - DVD to a friend who remembered it from long time ago. After watching it he was a tad confused - he said that he distinctly remembered the bear being nasty to the princes being tied to the tree.
Is he the only one who thinks that the series he saw on TV long time ago is different (maybe edited) from the recent DVD?
Please let me know. He think's he's going gaga.