ALF Tales

Infobox television
show_name = ALF Tales


caption =
format = Animated series
runtime = 30 minutes per episode
creator = Paul Fusco
starring = Paul Fusco
Peggy Mahon
Paulina Gillis
Thick Wilson
Dan Hennessey
Rob Cowan
country = USA
network = NBC
first_aired = September 10, 1988
last_aired = December 9, 1989
num_seasons = 2
num_episodes = 21
imdb_id = 0094413

"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 "". 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 also typically spoofed 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 and 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) (voice)
*Paulina Gillis - Augie/Rhonda (voice)
*Peggy Mahon - Flo (voice)
*Thick Wilson - Larson Petty/Bob (voice)
*Dan Hennessey - Sloop (voice)
*Rob Cowan (II) - Skip (voice)
*Don Francks - Additional Voices (voice)
*Marvin Goldhar - Additional Voices (voice)
*Greg Swanson - Additional Voices (voice)
*Debra Theraker - Additional Voices (voice)
*Michael Lamport - Additional Voices (voice)
*Harvey Atkin - Additional Voices (voice)
*Greg Morton - Additional Voices (voice)
*Stephen Ouimette - Additional Voices (voice)
*Andrew Sachs - Additional Voices (voice)
*John Stocker - Additional Voices (voice)
*Stuart Stone - Additional Voices (voice)
*Chris Wiggins - Additional Voices (voice)
*Marilyn Lightstone - Additional Voices (voice)
*Richard Yearwood - Additional Voices (voice)
*Eva Almos - Additional Voices (voice)
*Jayne Eastwood - Additional Voices (voice)
*Marla Lukofsky - Additional Voices (voice)
*Nick Nichols - Additional Voices (voice)
*Linda Sorensen - Additional Voices (voice)
*Don McManus - Additional Voices (voice)
*Ken Ryan - Additional Voices (voice)
*Robert Bockstael - Additional Voices (voice)
*Luba Goy - Additional Voices (voice)
*Rick Jones - Additional Voices (voice)
*Colin Fox - Additional Voices (voice)
*Wendy Brackman - Additional Voices (voice)
*John Koensgen - Additional Voices (voice)
*Ron Rubin - Additional Voices (voice)
*Peter Keleghan - Additional Voices (voice)
*Len Carlson - Additional Voices (voice)
*Alyson Court - Additional Voices (voice)
*Darrin Baker - Additional Voices (voice)

DVD release

The first seven episodes were released on DVD on May 30, 2006 in Region 1 by Lions Gate Home Entertainment in a single-disc release entitled "ALF and The Beanstalk and Other Classic Fairy Tales".

ee also

*List of animated spinoffs from prime time shows

External links

* [http://www.alftv.net ALFtv.NET: Fansite]