Grim Tales

- Season 2

(1991)

A donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster team up to escape their farm before the evil farmer gets rid of them for good for being too old and then cunningly take on a band of braggadocios hunters.

A happy-go-lucky, good-natured servant called Stan is blessed with three wondrous gifts by an elf he befriends, which helps him tremendously when he runs into a dangerous, well-connected witch in the woods.

A simple, good-natured man everyone calls Ugly must bring some healing apples to a sickly princess and then find a griffin's feather if he wants to marry her and become the new king.

A superficial princess who owes a favor to a horrid-looking talking frog refuses in disgust to fulfill its wish to be her friend, but her father forces her to stick to the deal and something unexpected happens.

Two men lost in the forest, one a hotheaded brave soldier in buffalo leather boots, the other a mysterious frightened man in shiny shoes, discover the lair of a mean gang of robbers and decide to face them together.

The daughters of a king who owns a chocolate tree break his one command not to eat from it. Meanwhile, the king's good-natured gardener travels underground to see what lies beneath while his evil peers conspire to let him perish there.

After rejecting several rich suitors over the way they look, a spoiled princess is forced to marry a beggar who is not exactly what he seems.

A surreal tale about two brothers, the good Basil and the evil Septimus. When Basil is awarded by the king for growing a giant turnip, Septimus hires a gang of assassins to eliminate him, but a tough schoolteacher sorts things out.

A poor peasant who lives with his wife in a town full of rich snobs and backstabbing swindlers turns his fortunes around thanks to his floorboard calf, a string of incredibly lucky circumstances and his own quick wit.

Billy, the youngest and smartest of the seven little lambs, must rescue his siblings from the big bad wolf after their mother leaves them home alone.