TV.com

Jim Henson's the Storyteller Season 1 Episode 1

The Soldier and Death

Favorite

Watched It I've Watched This 1

Next
Episode Previous
Episode

9.0

User Rating

22 votes

Your Rating: 10
Your Rating: 9.5
Your Rating: 9
Your Rating: 8.5
Your Rating: 8
Your Rating: 7.5
Your Rating: 7
Your Rating: 6.5
Your Rating: 6
Your Rating: 5.5
Your Rating: 5
Your Rating: 4.5
Your Rating: 4
Your Rating: 3.5
Your Rating: 3
Your Rating: 2.5
Your Rating: 2
Your Rating: 1.5
Your Rating: 1

Rate Now

EPISODE REVIEWS
By TV.com Users

Write A Review

Episode Summary

EDIT

iTunes

Buy

AIRED: 5/15/88

From an early Russian folk tale. A soldier returns from 20 years of war with nothing but three biscuits in his sack. Soon he must outwit devils, save a kingdom, and try to outwit death.

FAN RECAP

Fan Episode Reviews (1)

Soldier guy has a special sack and cheats Death with it, which is never a good thing.

9.5

By stranger12, Dec 13, 2006

SO freaking sad!!! When it got to the very end, I couldn't stop feeling sad. Poor guy. But, well, it's a myth, and they usually have sad endings because, life sucks, and most of the time, we don't get happy endings. This is an episode I constantly remember from The Storyteller because it marked me. It's almost heartbreaking, and makes you wonder... If I had a sack to put Death in it, would I do it? Would I wanna live forever, would I want everyelse around me to live forever? Would it be worth it, imortality? What if I turned out like him, not able to go to Hell or Heaven? Wandering around the world... Waiting for Death... Although it would never come. Ever.moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
0 0

Flag
Share Hide

See All Fan Reviews

Cast & Crew: STARS

EDIT

Brian Henson	Storyteller's Dog
John Hurt	The Storyteller

See All Cast & Crew

Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

EDIT

Peter Marinker	Devils' Voices	Guest Star
Peter Hawkins	Devils' Voices	Guest Star
Tony Jackson	Devils' Voices	Guest Star

See All Cast & Crew

Watch Online

iTunes

Buy

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

FILTER BY TYPE

TRIVIA (0)
ADD TRIVIA
- ADD TRIVIA from this episode.
QUOTES (1)
ADD QUOTES
- Soldier: Do you know what this is?
  Death: A sack.
  Soldier: If this is a sack, then get in it.
  EDIT SHARE
NOTES (3)
ADD NOTES
- This episode won the Houston International Film & Video Festival/Festival of the Americas "Gold Medal Award" in 1988.
  EDIT SHARE
- This episode won a Golden Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival for "Television Production/Children's Programming" in 1988.
  EDIT SHARE
- This episode won the Grand Award at the International Film and Television Festival of New York for "Best Children's Program" in 1988.
  EDIT SHARE
ALLUSIONS (0)
ADD ALLUSIONS
- ADD ALLUSIONS from this episode.