From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ALF Tales
ALF Tales
ALF Tales Cast
Format Animated series • Paul Fusco - ALF (Gordon Shumway) (voice)
Created by Paul Fusco • Tabitha St. Germain (as Paulina Gillis[1]) - Augie/
Rhonda (voice)
Starring Paul Fusco
• Peggy Mahon - Flo (voice)
Peggy Mahon
Tabitha St. Germain (as Paulina • Thick Wilson - Larson Petty/Bob (voice)
Gillis) • Dan Hennessey - Sloop (voice)
Thick Wilson • Rob Cowan (II) - Skip (voice)
Dan Hennessey • Ellen-Ray Hennessy - Stella the Waitress (voice)
Rob Cowan
• Noam Zylberman - Curtis (1988) (voice)
Ellen-Ray Hennessy
Noam Zylberman • Michael Fantini - Curtis (1989) (voice)
• Don Francks - Additional Voices (voice)
Country of origin USA • Marvin Goldhar - Additional Voices (voice)
No. of seasons 2 • Greg Swanson - Additional Voices (voice)
• Debra Theraker - Additional Voices (voice)
No. of episodes 21
• Michael Lamport - Additional Voices (voice)
Production • Harvey Atkin - Additional Voices (voice)
• Greg Morton - Additional Voices (voice)
Running time 30 minutes per episode
• Stephen Ouimette - Additional Voices (voice)
Production DIC Entertainment • Andrew Sabiston - Additional Voices (voice)
company(s) Alien Productions • John Stocker - Additional Voices (voice)
Lorimar-Telepictures
• Stuart Stone - Additional Voices (voice)
Saban Entertainment
• Chris Wiggins - Additional Voices (voice)
Broadcast • Marilyn Lightstone - Additional Voices (voice)
Original channel NBC • Richard Yearwood - Additional Voices (voice)
• Eva Almos - Additional Voices (voice)
Original run September 10, 1988 – December 9, • Jayne Eastwood - Additional Voices (voice)
1989
• Marla Lukofsky - Additional Voices (voice)
• Nick Nichols - Additional Voices (voice)
ALF Tales is an animated American series that ran on the
• Linda Sorensen - Additional Voices (voice)
NBC television network on Saturdays from August 1988
• Don McManus - Additional Voices (voice)
to December 1989. The show was a spinoff from the series
• Hadley Kay - Additional Voices (voice)
ALF: The Animated Series. The show had characters from
• Robert Bockstael - Additional Voices (voice)
that series play various characters from fairy tales. The
• Luba Goy - Additional Voices (voice)
fairy tale was usually altered for comedic effect in a man-
• Jeff McGibbon - Additional Voices (voice)
ner relational to Fractured Fairy Tales.
• Colin Fox - Additional Voices (voice)
Each story typically spoofs a film genre, such as the
• Terri Hawkes - Additional Voices (voice)
"Cinderella" episode done as an Elvis movie. Some
• Michael Longstaff - Additional Voices (voice)
episodes featured a "fourth wall" effect where ALF is
• Keith Knight - Additional Voices (voice)
backstage preparing for the episode, and Rob Cowan
• John Koensgen - Additional Voices (voice)
would appear drawn as a TV executive (who introduced
• Ron Rubin - Additional Voices (voice)
himself as "Roger Cowan, network executive") to try to
• Peter Keleghan - Additional Voices (voice)
brief ALF on how to improve this episode. For instance
• Len Carlson - Additional Voices (voice)
Cowan once told ALF who was readying for a medieval
• Alyson Court - Additional Voices (voice)
themed episode that "less than 2% of our audience lives
• Darrin Baker - Additional Voices (voice)
in the Dark Ages".
• Catherine Gallant - Additional Voices (voice)
• Marlow Vella - Additional Voices (voice)
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ALF Tales
Episodes DVD release
• SEASON ONE The first seven episodes were released on DVD on May
• Robin Hood - 9/10/88 30, 2006 in Region 1 from Lions Gate Home Entertainment
• Sleeping Beauty - 9/17/88 in a single-disc release entitled ALF and The Beanstalk and
• Cinderella - 9/24/88 Other Classic Fairy Tales.
• Legend of Sleepy Hollow - 10/01/88
•
•
Jack and the Beanstalk - 10/8/88
The Aladdin Brothers - 10/15/88
See also
• Rapunzel - 10/29/88 • List of animated spinoffs from prime time shows
• Rumplestilskin - 11/12/88
•
•
The Princess and the Pea - 11/19/88
John Henry - 12/3/88
References
• The Three Little Piggs - 12/10/88 [1] Damian Inwood. "Pi Theatre, Independent
• Alice in Wonderland - 12/17/88 Vancouver Theatre >> The Baroness and the Pig".
• Peter Pan - 1/7/89 http://pitheatre.com/the-baroness-and-the-pig/.
• SEASON TWO Retrieved October 30, 2011. "That’s what
• Hansel and Gretel - 9/16/89 Vancouver actresses Diane Brown and Tabitha St.
• The Wizard of Oz - 9/23/89 Germain do with the delightful black comedy, The
• The Elves and the Shoemaker - 9/30/89 Baroness and the Pig. (...) St. Germain – better
• The Emperor’s New Clothes - 10/14/89 known to Vancouver audiences as Paulina Gillis –
• Goldie Locks and the Three Bears - 10/28/89 plays the Baroness as a naïve gentlewoman, full of
• Little Red Riding Hood - 11/11/89 prissy mannerisms and twittering, bird-like
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 12/2/89 movements."
• King Midas - 12/9/89
External links
• ALF Tales at the Internet Movie Database
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Categories:
• ALF (TV series)
• American children's television series
• American science fiction television series
• NBC network shows
• 1980s American animated television series
• 1988 television series debuts
• 1989 television series endings
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