ALF Tales

ALF Tales
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".

Cast

• Paul Fusco - ALF (Gordon Shumway)/Rick Fusterman
• Tabitha St. Germain (as Paulina Gillis) - 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

• List of animated spinoffs from prime time shows

External links

• ALF Tales at IMDb