About this season
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".
Episodes (8)
1. Hansel and Gretel
Aired 16 September 1989 • 21 min
2. The Wizard of Oz
Aired 23 September 1989 • 21 min
3. The Elves and the Shoemaker
Aired 30 September 1989 • 21 min
4. The Emperor's New Clothes
Aired 14 October 1989 • 21 min
5. Goldie Locks and the Three Bears
Aired 28 October 1989 • 21 min
6. Little Red Riding Hood
Aired 11 November 1989 • 21 min
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.
7. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Aired 2 December 1989 • 22 min
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.
8. King Midas
Aired 9 December 1989 • 22 min
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.