Fairy Tale Police Department


Fairy Tale Police Department is an animated series, produced by the company Yoram Gross-EM.TV in co-production with EM.TV & Merchandising AG, Victory Media Group, and Talit Communications. 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.

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

  • Johnny Legend - Christine's childish, cowardly and clumsy partner who is easily distracted from work; he prefers to style his hair with a comb that he always carries around in his pocket than solve a crime. Johnny's clumsiness and inability to focus properly mostly gets the pair in trouble which is something that he is not often aware of. Although he acts cowardly, he can be serious at times but only in the most extreme of circumstances. Voiced by Nick Jasprizza.
  • Christine Anderson - a smart, hard-working and patient lady cop and one of two main characters of the show. Christine is the most level-headed and intelligent of the two and takes her job seriously as a cop. She always wants to get the job done right and hates it when an interference or distraction occurs. She is partners with Johnny, although she dislikes his behaviour she does see him as good cop and friend. She also often gets transformed into animals by Wanda and other fairy tale characters. She often wears and dark blue jacket with purple pants and has dark orange hair. Her name is similar to Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author who wrote fairy tales. Voiced by Sarah Aubrey.
  • Wanda - a clumsy fairy who struggles with magic, which can be troublesome at times. Wanda is also somewhat careless and distracted like Johnny and takes a while to get her spells right. Wanda's magic words are usually "Wanda Winkle" and was one of the good fairy godmothers from the Sleeping Beauty story, specifically the one who averted the bad fairy's curse. Wanda is friends with almost every other fairy, witch or magician in Fairy Tale Land, such as Agatha, the Sorcerer from "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and the Witches from "Rapunzel" and "Beauty & the Beast". She is also sworn enemies with Nancy the wicked fairy, also from Sleeping Beauty. Voiced by Sarah Aubrey.
  • Chief Horace White - the grumpy, overbearing and no-nonsense chief of F.T.P.D. Station. He is easily annoyed and Johnny's childish awkwardness and carelessness often puts him on the edge of the chief's temper. Voiced by Drew Forsythe.
  • Claude - a scientist frog who says he's really a prince, is intelligent enough, but his ideas and inventions are sometimes useless and ridiculous. Voiced by Nick Jasprizza.
  • Pinocchio - a fairy tale character who works at F.T.P.D. Like the original Pinocchio, his nose grows longer if he tells a lie. Voiced by Maggie Dence.

    Episode list

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

    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.