ALF Tales

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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. 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 "Rob Cowan, NBC 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 Middle Ages".

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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.