David Witt Stephen Davis David Evans Grant Fraser Kym Goldsworthy Simon Hopkinson Brendan Luno Michael Maurer Gabrielle Prendergast Phil Sanders Kier Shorey Steve J. Spears Rhett Walton Anthony Watt
10 September 2001 (2001-09-10) – 2 December 2002 (2002-12-02)
Fairy Tale Police Department is a German
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]
In the United States, it aired on
Cartoon Network from October 2, 2002 to April 25, 2004.
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 (or if he wants to). Voiced by Nick Jasprizza.
Christine (Chris) 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 (mostly caused by Johnny's clumsiness and awkwardness). 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.[3]
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 Cinderella's fairy godmother, Agatha and is enemies with Nancy the bad fairy also from Sleeping Beauty. Voiced by
Sarah Aubrey.[3]
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
Pinocchio: Puppet in Peril (
Pinocchio) (10 September 2001)
The Frog Prince Riddle (
The Frog Prince) (17 September 2001)
The Curious Kidnapping of Thumbelina (
Thumbelina) (18 November 2002)
The Fishy Tale of The Little Mermaid (
The Little Mermaid) (25 November 2002)
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]