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".
Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
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Season 1 | Episode 1 | Robin Hood | 1988-09-10 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 2 | Sleeping Beauty | 1988-09-17 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 3 | Cinderella | 1988-09-24 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 4 | Legend of Sleepy Hollow | 1988-10-01 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 5 | Jack and the Beanstalk | 1988-10-08 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 6 | The Aladdin Brothers | 1988-10-15 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 7 | Rapunzel | 1988-10-29 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 8 | Rumplestilskin | 1988-11-12 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 9 | The Princess and the Pea | 1988-11-19 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 10 | John Henry | 1988-12-03 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 11 | The Three Little Piggs | 1988-12-10 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 12 | Alice in Wonderland | 1988-12-17 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 13 | Peter Pan | 1989-01-07 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 1 | Hansel and Gretel | 1989-09-16 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 2 | The Wizard of Oz | 1989-09-23 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 3 | The Elves and the Shoemaker | 1989-09-30 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 4 | The Emperor's New Clothes | 1989-10-14 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 5 | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | 1989-10-28 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 6 | Little Red Riding Hood | 1989-11-11 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 7 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1989-12-02 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 8 | King Midas | 1989-12-09 | 30 min |