Grim Tales

- Season 1

(1989)

A dying king gives three quests to his three sons to decide who the heir to the throne will be. His two "clever" sons immediately resort to cheating, but the "stupid" one still wins thanks to a strange helpful frog living in the cellar.

A poor woodcutter's son rescues a trickster spirit trapped in a bottle and is rewarded with a magic rag that can turn things into silver.

A turnip thieving hedgehog challenges a posh hare to a race. The prize? A gold coin and a silk hanky.

The valiant little tailor who claims he can kill 'seven in one blow' is tasked by the king to take care of two troublesome giants.

Rapunzel, a girl kidnapped as a baby by an evil witch and locked away in a tower that no one can climb, risks enraging the witch by using her own impossibly long hair to help prince charming reach her and keep her company in secret.

The tale of the honest fisherman and his greedy wife who find an enchanted wish-granting fish.

A good-natured woman is blessed with three wondrous gifts by three mysterious men in the woods. Her evil stepmother decides to send her ill-natured daughter to also visit the men, but the outcome ends up being quite different.

Abandoned by their impoverished parents, wily brother and sister run into a witch in the forest, who tries to eat them.

Forced to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold for the greedy king, a miller's daughter asks in desperation a trickster creature named Rumpelstiltskin for help, but his assistance has a steep price.

Princess Finella disguises herself as one of king Stefan's huntsmen to be close to him, her true love, and try to win him back somehow. However, his pet lion suspects something, but can it prove its suspicion?

Rik beats his chair for playing his guitar, improvises a sad tale of Horace the frog who wanted to be the first frog on the Moon, and tells the tale of a poor, hungry girl who receives a magic cooking pot which produces unending porridge.

Three braggadocios doctors try to prove to a skeptical innkeeper that they are so good they can operate on themselves.