Fairy Tale Police Department

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Fairy Tale Police Department
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Genre Adventure
Fantasy
Cartoon series
Created byRon Isaak
Leora Kamenetzky
Directed byDavid Evans
Karl Zwicky
Voices of Sarah Aubrey
Maggie Dence
Drew Forsythe
Nick Jasprizza
Rachel King
Keith Scott
Theme music composerClive Harrison
Opening theme"Fairy Tale Police Department"
Ending theme"Fairy Tale Police Department" (Instrumental)
ComposerClive Harrison
Country of originGermany
Australia
Original languagesGerman
English
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26
Production
Executive producersRon Isaak
Thorsten Wegener (for Victory)
ProducersRodney Whitham
Christian Heuermann (for Victory)
Leora Kamenetzky, Liran Talit, and Yehuda Talit (for Talit)
EditorsRoger Grant
Strutts Psyridis
Running time24 minutes
Production companies Talit Communications (Israel)
Victory Media Group
EM.TV & Merchandising AG
Yoram Gross-EM.TV
Original release
Network Seven Network (Australia)
Release10 September 2001 (2001-09-10) 
2 December 2002 (2002-12-02)

Fairy Tale Police Department is a German Australian animated series, produced by the company Yoram Gross-EM.TV in co-production with EM.TV & Merchandising AG, Victory Media Group, and Talit Communications. [1] It aired on Seven Network at various times. It offers a new perspective on classic fairy tales through the central characters Johnny Legend and Christine Anderson. They are magic police officers who restore balance to society. [2]

Contents

Setting

The series takes place in Fairy Tale Land, when a fairy tale is messed up, the cops, Johnny Legend and Christine Anderson come to fix it.

Characters

Episode list

  1. Pinocchio: Puppet in Peril (Pinocchio) (10 September 2001)
  2. The Frog Prince Riddle (The Frog Prince) (17 September 2001)
  3. Black Day for Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) (24 September 2001)
  4. No Kiss for Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty) (1 October 2001)
  5. Little Pigs' House of Trouble (The Three Little Pigs) (8 October 2001)
  6. The Emperor's New Clues (The Emperor's New Clothes) (15 October 2001)
  7. Big Trouble for the Little Tailor (The Brave Little Tailor) (22 October 2001)
  8. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Duckling (The Ugly Duckling) (29 October 2001)
  9. The Beauty & The Beast Bungle (Beauty and the Beast) (5 November 2001)
  10. Rumpelstiltskin's Last Straw (Rumpelstiltskin) (12 November 2001)
  11. The Glass Slipper Caper (Cinderella) (19 November 2001)
  12. The Trials of The Tin Soldier (The Steadfast Tin Soldier) (26 November 2001)
  13. Musicians of Bremen Mystery (Town Musicians of Bremen) (3 December 2001)
  14. No Pea for A Princess (The Princess and the Pea) (9 September 2002)
  15. Who'll Help Hansel & Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) (16 September 2002)
  16. The Sorcerer's Apprentice Spells Trouble (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) (23 September 2002)
  17. The Hair-Raising Rapunzel Case (Rapunzel) (30 September 2002)
  18. The Big Beanstalk Break-In (Jack and the Beanstalk) (7 October 2002)
  19. The Pied Piper Puzzle (The Pied Piper) (14 October 2002)
  20. Trouble Afoot for Puss in Boots (Puss in Boots) (21 October 2002)
  21. Aladdin and the Lost Lamp (Aladdin) (28 October 2002)
  22. Wrong Way For Little Red Riding Hood (Little Red Riding Hood) (4 November 2002)
  23. Ali Baba and The Faulty Thieves (Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves) (11 November 2002)
  24. The Curious Kidnapping of Thumbelina (Thumbelina) (18 November 2002)
  25. The Fishy Tale of The Little Mermaid (The Little Mermaid) (25 November 2002)
  26. A Fairy Tale Ending (2 December 2002)

Reception

A 2006 review for the video release in The Daily Times called the animation "unimaginative and cheap-looking", and complained that the show focused too much on the detectives, in addition to its jokes. [4]

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