ALF Tales
ALF Tales | |
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Created by | Paul Fusco |
Starring | Paul Fusco Peggy Mahon Tabitha St. Germain (as Paulina Gillis) Thick Wilson Dan Hennessey Rob Cowan Ellen-Ray Hennessy Noam Zylberman |
Country of origin | USA |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 21 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes per episode |
Production company(s) | DIC Entertainment Alien Productions Lorimar-Telepictures Saban Entertainment (1988-1989) |
Release | |
Original network | NBC |
Original release | September 10, 1988 – December 9, 1989 |
External links | |
[{{#property:P856}} Website] |
ALF Tales is an animated American series that ran on the NBC television network on Saturdays from August 1988 to December 1989. The show was a spinoff from the series ALF: The Animated Series. The show had characters from that series play various characters from fairy tales. The fairy tale was usually altered for comedic effect in a manner akin to Fractured Fairy Tales.
Each story typically spoofs a film genre, such as the "Cinderella" episode done as an Elvis movie. Some episodes featured a "fourth wall" effect where ALF is backstage preparing for the episode, and Rob Cowan would appear drawn as a TV executive (who introduced himself as "Roger Cowan, network executive") to try to brief ALF on how to improve this episode. For instance Cowan once told ALF who was readying for a medieval themed episode that "less than 2% of our audience lives in the Dark Ages".
Contents
Cast
- Paul Fusco - ALF (Gordon Shumway)/Rick Fusterman
- Tabitha St. Germain (as Paulina Gillis[1]) - Augie/Rhonda
- Peggy Mahon - Flo
- Thick Wilson - Larson Petty/Bob
- Dan Hennessey - Sloop
- Rob Cowan (II) - Skip
- Ellen-Ray Hennessy - Stella the Waitress
- Noam Zylberman - Curtis (1988)
- Michael Fantini - Curtis (1989)
Episodes
Season one
- Robin Hood - 9/10/88
- Sleeping Beauty - 9/17/88
- Cinderella - 9/24/88
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow - 10/01/88
- Jack and the Beanstalk - 10/8/88
- The Aladdin Brothers - 10/15/88
- Rapunzel - 10/29/88
- Rumplestilskin - 11/12/88
- The Princess and the Pea - 11/19/88
- John Henry - 12/3/88
- The Three Little Piggs - 12/10/88
- Alice in Wonderland - 12/17/88
- Peter Pan - 1/7/89
Season two
- Hansel and Gretel - 9/16/89
- The Wizard of Oz - 9/23/89
- The Elves and the Shoemaker - 9/30/89
- The Emperor's New Clothes - 10/14/89
- Goldie Locks and the Three Bears - 10/28/89
- Little Red Riding Hood - 11/11/89
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 12/2/89
- King Midas - 12/9/89
DVD release
The first seven episodes were released on DVD on May 30, 2006 in Region 1 from Lions Gate Home Entertainment in a single-disc release entitled ALF and The Beanstalk and Other Classic Fairy Tales.
See also
References
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External links
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- Television series by DHX Media
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