I had NO IDEA this was based on the Faeries BOOK until like last night and it blew my mind. I love that book and I had so many types of the preview on it but I never made the connection until I looked at the preview again and realized that the art style for the creature was the same, as well as the logo.....GAH! 12:15 According to the book this is based on, male Merror may be ugly but they are loyal, friendly and strong which is meant to contrast off the vanity and selfishness of the more beautiful mermaids. Female merrors are beautiful like mermaids but they aren't selfish but seek human men because they are terrified of how males look despite how they behave. So either this is a corrupt one or he got tired of listening to Puck talk crap about him! XD Regardless, love the early 80s jumpscare. Even the previews as a kid had me scared at this bit and Frank Welker's scream didn't help. 13:26 Never mind. I'm with Puck on this one. His expression captures the tone of this whole moment; "......WHY?!"

Wow haven't seen this in ages thanks for posting it.

Loved this as a kid....now..40 plus years later,..I still have much of the script in memory I had watched it on vhs so many times!

If this is a pilot special, the full show should have gotten green-lighted.

16:07 that's some serious creaking

I've been trying to remember this for damn near 40 years. Thank you so much!

That's not how you pronounce 'Niamh'.😂

I absolutely LOVE this!❤😊

Wow... You can recognize Hans Conried's voice regardless of the character or decade.

1:22 Okay, not even 2 minutes in and this escalated.

Hagsie

Oshin neon fungy

Yeah, once a guy enters the world of fairies, he never comes back 😵‍💫

I remember this 🥰 oh how it’s all coming back to me!!! My mum got this lovely movie on VHS and I lost it!! So happy to see it on here!!!! Thank you for uploading this!!!

this is so cool!

Enchantment fairies gnomes trolls pixies sprites elves......🥰

Excellent work dudes and happy Independence Day!!

Now show me the cartoon where a princess is feeding little babies that won't eat because her mean sister was trying but got mad. Pudding or something. One of these strange old cartoons.

To all that have had memories and dreams of the shadow boss. I feel you. I really do.

I used to be from “Family Home Entertainment”.

This is such a weird show.

What ever happened to great shows like these

I paid $75 in 2001 to buy this on VHS, that's how much this "stuck" with me

Predates the candle wearing kobolds of WoW by quite a bit.

I used to be obsessed with this cartoon and am thrilled I found it again ! They seriously need to bring this out on DVD

I used to watch this constantly as a toddler but my parents were always horified that they couldn't pronounce Niamh and winced every time.

Holy crap, it just hit me that Shadow has the same voice actor as the Grinch from the Grinch Night special.

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I'm looking for the Christmas moive where the car adopted the baby and blessed him and he later became Santa Klaus

The book on which this is based is FABULOUS. The most amazing illustrations ever.

Thank you uploader Brohann. In the 80s when I was a child I had only seen the trailer for Faeries on the Family Home Entertainment VHS tape for Riki Tiki Tavi. This was a time when children's animated films were intelligently written (not as ridiculously stupid as today's kid's cartoons) and you were genuinely touched by emotions you were scared of the evil forces, cheered the good guys, cried when a loved character dies etc. This is gorgeously animated based on the Brian Froud book. I remember being frightened of the Shadow which looked like a huge dragon in a tower to me. I also did spot the nude fairy (with long hair covering all the spots that would have made it X rated) I had always wanted to see this film which at the time looked and felt very grown up to me. Hans Conreid as the Shadow was terrific I can never forget his line "Who intrudes upon my perfect darkness!". I equate this level of somewhat adult fantasy at the same level as The Last Unicorn which I also saw on VHS and with The Secret of Nimh and to a degree even the very graphic Watership Down. I also see this as a kind of B movie animated version of WILLOW. I miss the 80s and I miss when animated films were masterpieces. I am so proud of my generation/age group. Thank you for making me re live my childhood.

0:55 don’t listen to her. Things rarely turn out well when mortals interact with Faeries

Up to the point the hero's shadow fought the villain, I had completely forgot I had seen this as a kid. I even remembered the part where the villain claws the back of the shadow and hero's back bleeds. Thanks for posting this!

Sometimes I imagine to go to Faerieland and meet the faeries. In fact, I’d like to write a story about it.

Am I missing something here? Why does the shadow want to get rid of the sun? Light is what causes shadows he should want the sun to be out all the time.

0:53 That buttchin tho

I had a 3 hour vhs, first hour was tom and jerry, second tweety and sylvester and last hour was new missadventures of icabod crane and this. I found it just now after 20 years and many attempts to id the film

This is definitely one of the weird things I remember from my childhood that I didn’t know if it was real or not! I can’t believe I found it after 20 years!!! As an adult now, I can totally see where and how my love for dark and obscure 1980’s fantasy films began.

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Hans Conried can make anyone sound cool!!

Someone should make new live action movie

Would never have been able to piece this together without Google, but here it is, a cartoon that I enjoyed many times as a child. Thanks for putting this up!

...She forgot to Mention ...Evil TROLLS..

Stumbled upon this, - it looks great, and as an Irish person I can say they lifted the main characters' names from the legend of Oisín and NIamh (who seduces Oisín and brings him to the fairy realm for 3 years - while 300 years pass in the mortal realm) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ois%C3%ADn . Sadly they woefully mispronounce Niamh - it's meant to be pronounced like nee-ev.

The Animation is from the Creators of HE-MAN...

Brings back Some Fond Memories....Cartoon Isn't the same anymore.....

I actually have this on DVD, lol

The audio on this vid is terrible. Why would anybody release a crappier version of something that has been on youtube for years...

I have not seen this cartoon since some time in the eighties, well over thirty-five years ago, and I still remember seeing it back when they still showed cartoon specials at night like this one.

The ending fight always haunted me, because it was a very brutal fight for a kid's cartoon.