title: ALF Tales
text: ALF Tales is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series that aired on NBC from September 10, 1988, to December 9, 1989. The show is a spin-off of ALF: The Animated Series which featured characters from that series playing various characters from fairy tales. The fairy tale parody was usually altered for comedic effect in a manner akin to Jay Ward's "Fractured Fairy Tales".
  
  The episodes were performed in the style of a resident theater company or ensemble cast where Gordon and Rhonda would take the leading male and female roles, and the other characters were cast according to their characteristics.
  
  Many stories spoof a film genre, such as the "Cinderella" episode which is presented like an Elvis Presley film. Some episodes featured a "fourth wall" effect where Gordon is backstage preparing for the episode, and Rob Cowan would appear drawn as a TV executive (who introduced himself as "Roger Cowan, network executive") who tries to brief Gordon on how to improve this episode. For instance Cowan once told Gordon 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)/Rick Fusterman
  Tabitha St. Germain (as Paulina Gillis) – Augie/Rhonda
  Peggy Mahon – Flo
  Thick Wilson – Larson Petty/Bob
  Dan Hennessey – Sloop
  Rob Cowan – Skip
  Ellen-Ray Hennessy – Stella the Waitress
  Noam Zylberman – Curtis (1988)
  Michael Fantini – Curtis (1989)
  
  Episodes
  
  Season 1 (1988–89)
  
  Season 2 (1989)
  
  Home media
  The first seven episodes were released on DVD on May 30, 2006, in Region 1 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment in a single-disc release entitled ALF and The Beanstalk and Other Classic Fairy Tales.
  
  See also
  List of animated spinoffs from prime time shows
  
  References
  
  External links
   
  
  ALF (TV series)
  1980s American animated television series
  1980s American comic science fiction television series
  1988 American television series debuts
  1989 American television series endings
  American animated television spin-offs
  American children's animated comic science fiction television series
  Animated television series about extraterrestrial life
  English-language television shows
  NBC original programming
  Television series by DIC Entertainment
  Television series by Lorimar Television
  Television series by Saban Entertainment
  Television series created by Paul Fusco
  Television series created by Tom Patchett
  Television shows based on fairy tales
  Television series by Lorimar-Telepictures