Original title
Crackanory
Released
11/13/2013
Origin country
GB
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
4
Number of episodes
26
Crackanory is a storytelling television series aimed at adults, inspired by the popular children's series Jackanory. Each episode features two 15-minute tales narrated by contemporary comedians and actors, containing a mix of live action and animation and all read from the same oversized chair.
Are you sitting comfortably? Jackanory gets a reboot as famous faces read comic tales. Jack Dee and Sally Phillips narrate stories about a Twitter addict and a dead toymaker.
Rebecca Front reads a story about a hack writer who discovers a lost Shakespeare play. Kevin Eldon then narrates the tale of an ungrateful man driven to insanity.
Twisted tales read by Harry Enfield and Sarah Solemani. An office worker takes on a high-street coffee chain and a downtrodden librarian gains access to a CIA military drone.
When a hungover Sabine accidentally mis-translates an exchange at a diplomatic summit, she realizes she can influence world politics by being creative with her interpreting. And a woman is stranded in a lay by after breaking down on Walpurgis night - a night of evil spirits and demonic forces.
An unremarkable postman turns himself into the perfect boyfriend for a girl he has fallen in love with by reading her mail and absorbing all her interests. And a woman is visited by her eight year old self but lies about her life so she doesn't repeat the same mistakes.
Stephen Mangan and Hugh Dennis narrate funny yarns about a newsreader interviewing an evil dictator and a care assistant who moonlights as a superhero.
A cleaner is accidentally launched into space and a weatherman finds that he can control the weather in darkly comic tales read by Vic Reeves and Rik Mayall.
A scientist creates the perfect wife - using his dog's brain and a prisoner escapes from jail by posting herself out in two twisted tales read by Ben Miller and Sue Perkins.
David Mitchell and Katherine Parkinson read two dark tales in which a group of party guests fear for their lives and the survivors of an earthquake contemplate cannibalism.
Johnny Vegas and Meera Syal read two more twisted tales of a man who finds relics from his dodgy past and a murderous obituary writer.
A man with a gift for untangling things tries to woo a princess and a wife is framed for murder by her husband in two tales narrated by Warwick Davis and Emilia Fox.
A TV talent show judge gets a taste of their own medicine and a street performer poses as a statue in order to foil an art heist in two more darkly comic tales.
Things get out of control at a historical re-enactment group when evidence suggests history may have taken a different course. A young couple check into a mysterious B&B.
A couple desperate to get their 'gifted' daughter into the best local school move into a makeshift camp. In 1901, a photographer attempts to prove a deadly beast doesn't exist.
When his friend Craig is attacked by zombies, Brian swears to pick them off one by one. In the second tale a disgraced police detective thinks his Sat-Nav is possessed.
An am-dram group must keep their audience laughing when a bomb is discovered. In the second story a girl gets a job at an abattoir but can't bring herself to kill the animals.
After lying to his colleagues about being married, Alan must find a date for the office awards night. A man gets into trouble when he sends a text to his boss instead of his wife.
A student tries to convince his superstitious, elderly landlady that her beliefs are unfounded. A man tries to prevent his girlfriend discovering the CIA agent living under their house.
In the household of a playwright in Ancient Rome, a slave helps his master to finish writing his latest opus. Little does the slave know that he has effectively conceived his own death.
A frustrated writer invents an elderly relative as an excuse to get time off work so that he can start work on his novel. When the doorbell rings and he comes to face-to-face with "Aunt Janet" he discovers that his lie has come to life.
An out of work actor agrees to take part in making an advert for tea in an isolated former Soviet-bloc country. Years later he returns to the country to discover that his character Sir Slurpington-Boots has become a national treasure.
In 1850, a man wakes from a long illness to find that he is being cared for by a group of strangers and a beautiful woman. If, as they insist, he is their guest why is he not allowed to leave the house.
Beth is contacted out-of-the-blue by a reclusive woman who has used Beth's picture on a dating website. Now she wants Beth to pose as her and go and meet the man she has formed a relationship with over the web.
In New York City in the 1940s, the baritone in a barbershop quartet unwittingly agrees to sell his soul to the devil to make sure that his group win in the national finals.
In London in 1910, an illusionist performs his famed "the lady vanishes" act. Only this time his assistant really has vanished without a trace. Has he actually acquired real magic powers?
A down on his luck man, a former aristocrat who squandered away his fortune, stumbles upon an old house with a mysterious inhabitant.
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