ALF Tales

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ALF Tales
Format Animated series
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
Broadcast
Original channel NBC
Original run September 10, 1988 – December 9, 1989

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 relational 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

[edit] Cast

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Damian Inwood. "Pi Theatre, Independent Vancouver Theatre >> The Baroness and the Pig". http://pitheatre.com/the-baroness-and-the-pig/. Retrieved October 30, 2011. "That’s what Vancouver actresses Diane Brown and Tabitha St. Germain do with the delightful black comedy, The Baroness and the Pig. (...) St. Germain – better known to Vancouver audiences as Paulina Gillis – plays the Baroness as a naïve gentlewoman, full of prissy mannerisms and twittering, bird-like movements." 

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