Tales from the Neverending Story

infobox Television
show_name = Tales from the Neverending Story


caption = Tales from the Neverending Story Vol. 1 DVD cover
format = Fantasy
runtime =
starring = Mark Rendall
Tyler Hynes
country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 4 (television movies' version) / 13 cite web| url=http://www.muse.ca/4105/fiche.asp?id=34| title=Tales from the Neverending Story| publisher=Muse Entertainment| accessdate=2008-06-06]
list_episodes = #Episodes
network = HBO
first_aired = October 1, 2001
last_aired = January 1, 2002
related = The NeverEnding Story (film)
production_website = http://www.muse.ca/4105/fiche.asp?id=34
imdb_id = 0271308
tv_com_id = 7686

Tales from the Neverending Story is a one season-only TV series that is loosely based on Michael Ende's novel "The Neverending Story", produced (in Montreal, Canada during December 2000-August 2001 ) and distributed by Muse Entertainment, and aired on HBO in 2001. It was aired as 4 two-hour television movies in the US and as a TV series of 13 one-hour episodes in the UK. The series was released on DVD in 2001. Fact|date=June 2008

Premise

The series was a reboot of the Neverending Story series with the overall story exploring the origin story of Fantasia and Bastian from an even greater point of divergence from Michael Ende's novel than the motion pictures had been. Only a few very basic plot points of the original story have been left intact. Throughout the first half of the series there are two storylines occurring in tandem: Atreyu's adventures in Fantasia and Bastian's adventures in the real world. Various characters have also been altered, for example Xayide has become the Childlike Empress' sister, making them power equals. This enables her to become the main enemy to Bastian, Atreyu and all Fantasians over the span of the series.

Episodes

US version

# The Adventure Begins
# The Gift of the Name
# Badge of Courage
# Back to Fantasia

UK version

# Heart of Stone
# The Nothing
# The Luckdragon
# Deleting Mr. Blank
# The Gift of the Name
# Home Sweet Home
# The Sceptre
# The Luck Stops Here
# Badge of Courage
# Deus Ex Machina
# Stairway to Heaven
# The Visitor
# Resurrection

Trivia

* The license plate for Bastian's mother's car reads "Moonchild".

References

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