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Alf Tales

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First Aired:September 10, 1988
Seasons:2 seasons
Episodes:21
Status:Ended

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 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".

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Cast

Paul Fusco

ALF (voice)

Seasons

E1Robin Hood

25m

Sep 10, 1988

Robin Hood from the TV cartoon series ALF Tales premiered on September 10, 1988 as the pilot for the series in Season 1, Episode 1. Robin Hood is portrayed by ALF. ALF has a jazz band that fights against Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham while good King Richard is away, promoting his book How to be a Really Nice King.

E2Sleeping Beauty

23m

Sep 17, 1988

Sleeping Beauty from the TV cartoon series ALF Tales premiered on September 17, 1988. The Evil Sorceress puts a curse on ALF, the prince, which ensures that the moment he gets a paper cut he dies. The King makes several decrees to prevent this tragedy from happening including keeping the prince in the castle, banning all paper products and printing greeting cards and utility bills on Canadian Bacon.

E3Cinderella

22m

Sep 24, 1988

E4Legend of Sleepy Hollow

23m

Oct 1, 1988

Sleepy Hollow from the TV cartoon series ALF Tales, season 1. The tale takes place in the 20th Century and provides a modern twist on the original The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. In the story, Ichabod Crane rides an Express train to interview for a staff photographer position at The Daily Hemisphere.

E5Jack and the Beanstalk

22m

Oct 8, 1988

Jack and the Beanstalk also released under the title ALF and the Beanstalk premiered on October 8, 1988 in Season 1, Episode 5. When Jack Bates' mother has business troubles, Jack runs to town to sell the family cow. Jack comes in contact with a man that trades him three magic beans for the cow. Upon learning of this trade, Jack's mother throws the beans out the window. The next morning a beanstalk grows and ALF climbs it, exploring where it leads.

E6The Aladdin Brothers and Their Lamp

21m

Oct 15, 1988

The Aladdin Brothers and Their Lamp premiered in Season 1, Episode 6 on October 15, 1988. The brothers, Ziggy and Roy Aladdin, get lost while on a massive tour that spanned the United States and the world. While in the Middle East, the brothers get lost and come across a man riding a camel. The man saves them and asks them to retrieve a lamp in a cave. Once discovered, they use the lamp to their own benefit

E7Rapunzel

24m

Oct 29, 1988

Alf tells the classic tale of Rapunzel, except with a few different twists along the way.

E8Rumpelstiltskin

23m

Nov 12, 1988

E9The Princess and the Pea

22m

Nov 19, 1988

E10John Henry

20m

Dec 3, 1988

E11The Three Little Pigs

21m

Dec 10, 1988

E12Alice in Wonderland

21m

Dec 17, 1988

E13Peter Pan

22m

Jan 7, 1989

E1Hansel and Gretel

21m

Sep 16, 1989

E2The Wizard of Oz

21m

Sep 23, 1989

E3The Elves and the Shoemaker

21m

Sep 30, 1989

E4The Emperor's New Clothes

21m

Oct 14, 1989

E5Goldie Locks and the Three Bears

21m

Oct 28, 1989

Little Red Riding Hood

E6Little Red Riding Hood

21m

Nov 11, 1989

ALF and his friends present their entertaining version of "Little Red Riding Hood", a 17th-century European classic tale about an unsuspecting little girl who faces a scary predator.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

E7Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

22m

Dec 2, 1989

ALF and his friends take the rivalry between Snow White and the evil queen to another level in an exciting version of the classic tale.

King Midas

E8King Midas

22m

Dec 9, 1989

An Indiana Jones-like character wishes to help King Midas with the cursed touch, but there are people who don't want that to happen in ALF's amusing version of the classic tale.

Storyline

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 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".

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