What happens
Mitch and Mytyl, two children in a poor woodcutter's family, trap a thrush in the royal forest on the day before Christmas. Their quarrel with their parents over the bird and their selfishness leads to a night of strange visitors. The fairy Berylune sends the siblings on a search for the bluebird of happiness, and they travel into the past and beyond. This is the Screen Guild Theater broadcast of the 1939 film The Bluebird, adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's play, starring Shirley Temple, with Roger Pryor as host.
A woodcutter's cottage near a royal forest, on the day before Christmas, and then the magical lands of the past and the future.
Characters: Mitch, Mytyl, Angela, Berylune, Tyltyl's mother, Tyltyl's father, Grandpa, Granny
Listen for: The children's search for the bluebird and their adventures in the past and the future.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.