Series · Comedy, Animation, Family, Kids

Alf Tales (1988)Season 1

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".

Creator

Paul Fusco, Tom Patchett, Roger S.H. Schulman, David Steven Cohen

Writers

David Steven Cohen, Roger S.H. Schulman, Bradley Kesden

Network

NBC

Country

United States

Language

English

First aired

September 10, 1988

Status

Ended