Grim Tales

tv show

poster for Grim Tales

22 total episodes

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2 seasons

Once Upon a Time...

First Aired April 14, 1989

Overview

Grim Tales is an animated British television program based on fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, featuring Rik Mayall as the storyteller dressed in his pyjamas and dressing gown. The twenty-two episodes were broadcast on ITV from 1989 to 1991,The series is rated TV-14 the released on video and audio cassette, with the slightly different title Grimm Tales.

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The Little Peasant

Season 2 - Episode 9 - 0h 10m

Air Date

March 10, 1991

Overview

There was once a village, a village called ""Horrid on Sea"", where everyone was rich, well everyone expect for one little man who was poor. All the rich peasants laughed at him and called him ""The Stupid Little Peasant"" and threw bits of lard and rubbish at him, because they didn't like poor people. The rich fokes had wonderful houses, feilds full of cows as far as the eye could see and they all each had six fifty pound notes with jam on for breakfast. But the Little Peasant was so poor he had to eat twigs with no jam. And when he and his wife had eaten all the twigs from miles around they had to start eating the floor of their hut. The peasant was sad to see his wife with mouthfulls of splinters every night, so one night instead of eating his piece of the floor he carved it into a little wooden carf asnd gave it to his wife as a preasant as she had always wanted to have some cows. The wifes loves it and suggests they put it out to graise with all the other cows of the village. So the n