ALF (TV SERIES)

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| show_name = ALF
| image =
| caption = A.L.F.
| format = Sitcom
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| runtime = 30 Minutes
| creator = Tom Patchett
Paul Fusco
| executive_producer = Tom Patchett
Paul Fusco
| starring = Paul Fusco
Max Wright
Anne Schedeen
Andrea Elson
Benji Gregory
Lucky the cat {himself}
Michu Meszaros
| narrated =
| country =
| network = NBC
| first_aired = September 22, 1986
| last_aired = March 24, 1990
| num_episodes = 102
| website =
| imdb_id = 0090390
| tv_com_id = 761
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'ALF' is a sitcom that originally ran on NBC from 1986 to 1990.

Contents

Premise

Cast

Production

Other transmissions

Episodes

Season 1: 1986-1987

Season 2: 1987-1988

Season 3: 1988-1989

Season 4: 1989-1990

DVD releases

Spinoffs

Animated Series

Marvel Comics

TV Movie

Trivia

External links

Premise

The title character is 'Gordon Shumway', an alien nicknamed A.L.F. (Alien Life Form). He was born on October 28, 1756 on the Lower East side of the planet Melmac. The planet Melmac was located six parsecs past the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster and had a green sky, blue grass and a purple sun. The commonly-used currency is "Foam".
ALF's body is covered with orange fur. He has a rippled snout, facial moles, eight stomachs, and he likes to eat cats (tabbies have been rumored as a favorite, but his preferred snack has not been definitively stated). He attended high school for 122 years and was captain of a Bouillabaisseball team (which is played on ice using shellfish as a ball).
In the pilot episode, ALF follows an amateur radio signal and crash-lands into the garage of the Tanners. The Tanners are a white suburban middle class family consisting of the social worker Willie (Max Wright), his wife Kate (Anne Schedeen), their children Lynn (Andrea Elson) and Brian (Benji Gregory Hertzberg), and the cat Lucky.
Unsure what to do, the Tanners take ALF into their home and hide him from the Alien Task Force (a part of the U.S. military) and their nosy neighbors (the Ochmoneks), until he can repair his spacecraft. He generally hid in the kitchen. It was eventually revealed that Melmac exploded as a result of a nuclear war, and that Shumway was not only homeless, but also, to the best of his knowledge, the last survivor of both his civilization and his species. He became a permanent member of the family, although his culture shock, survivor guilt, general boredom, despair, and loneliness frequently caused difficulty for the Tanners.
While most of the science fiction of ALF was played for comedic value, there were a few references to actual topics in space exploration. For example, ALF's using a radio signal as a beacon in the pilot episode. In the episode "Weird Science", ALF told Brian, who was building a model of the solar system for school, that there were two planets beyond Pluto called "Alvin" and "Dave". However, after a call was made to an astronomical organization, Willie explained that "Alvin" could have been the planetoid Chiron, or "Object Kowal", after its discoverer.
The original series spans over four seasons and 102 episodes (each episode's name is also the name of a song relevant to the episode's plot), in which Alf learns about Earth culture and makes new friends both within the Tanner family and without, including Willie's brother Neal, Kate's mother Dorothy (with whom Alf has a love-hate relationship — he refers to her as the Wicked Witch of the West, a reference to the Wizard of Oz), her husband Whizzer, the Ochmoneks' nephew Jake, a psychiatrist named Larry, and a blind woman named Jody (who never quite figures out that Alf isn't human, though she is aware through touch that he is short and very hairy). Changes pass within the Tanner household over the course of the series, including the birth of a new child, Eric, Alf's move from his initial quarters in the laundry room to a converted attic "apartment", and the death of Lucky the cat; in the final instance, Alf finds that, despite his occasional attempts to catch Lucky with the intention of making the cat a meal, he has come to love and respect the family pet too much to do anything untoward with Lucky's remains. In the series finale, Alf is about to be rescued by other survivors of his home planet, but is instead captured by the American military, and the viewer is left to ponder Alf's ultimate fate. (This was not supposed to be the finale, as the original airing ended on a "To Be Continued" note. At the time, the show was in limbo as to whether it would get a fifth season. The producers supposedly had a verbal agreement with NBC to get at least one more episode to resolve the cliffhanger. NBC never made good on the deal, and no more episodes were created.)

Cast

★ Max Wright - Willie Tanner

★ Anne Schedeen - Kate Tanner

★ Andrea Elson - Lynn Tanner

★ Benji Gregory - Brian Tanner

★ John LaMotta - Trevor Ochmonek

★ Liz Sheridan - Raquel Ochmonek

★ Josh Blake - Jake Ochmonek (seasons 2-4)

★ Jim J. Bullock - Neal Tanner (season 4)

★ Lucky the Cat - himself

★ Lisa Buckley - Alf assistant/puppeteer

★ Bob Fappiano - Alf assistant/puppeteer
Michu Meszaros was the actor within the Alf costume. Paul Fusco operated the Alf puppet (assisted by puppeteers Lisa Buckley and Bob Fappiano), supplied Alf's voice and co-produced the series with Tom Patchett. Patchett also co-created, wrote, and directed the series.
'Notable Guest Starring Cast'

★ Andrea Covell - Jody

★ Bill Daily - Dr. Larry Dykstra

★ Anne Meara - Dorothy Halligan Deaver

★ Paul Dooley - Whizzer Deaver

Production

Paul Fusco is notoriously secretive about his character. During the show's production, Fusco refused to acknowledge that Alf was anything other than an alien. All involved with the production were cautioned not to give away any of ALF's secrets.
Cast interviews since the show ended have revealed a few details about making the series: to make room for the puppeteers, the entire set was built on a raised platform with dozens of trapdoors in the floor. The trapdoors had to be reset multiple times, sometimes during a single scene, forcing them to shoot each episode over the course of several hours and without a studio audience.
Fusco was the primary puppeteer, using one of his hands to control ALF's mouth while the other hand was left to control one of the puppet's arm. Also, during tapings, Paul would wear a "halo" which was used to record his voice for the ALF character. A second puppeteer, Lisa Buckley, accompanied Paul under the stage and wore ALF's other hand (the hands were basically furry gloves) to control it. Together, with a third person who controlled ALF's facial and ear movements via an RC controller offstage, they worked in concert to make ALF's movements fluid and believable. All of this made for a painstaking process and there were countless mistakes and retakes. Of course none of them made it into the final cut.
Also, to avoid unnecessary wear-and-tear on the principal Alf puppet, the performers rehearsed with a battered, early version of Alf. They nicknamed him "Ralph." Often during rehearsals Mr. Fusco would just substitute his hand for the puppet.
In an interview on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Tina Fey said that her biggest frustration as producer of NBC's 75th anniversary special was dealing with Alf's "people." Fey said Fusco would only allow Alf to appear on the show if the puppeteers were completely hidden from everyone else, even the studio audience. After his cameo (as an audience member), Alf disappeared through a hole in the riser, was stuffed into a case and immediately hustled out of the building.
While a puppet was usually used for ALF, there were some shots of the tiny alien running or
walking around. This was accomplished by dwarf actor Michu Meszaros wearing an
ALF costume. (This can be seen in one of the series' intros, which concludes with the Tanner
family getting their picture taken; ALF, played by 'Michu', walks over to be part of the photo.)

Other transmissions

After the series run in the United States, it went on to even greater success in reruns in many European countries. The series was so popular in Germany in fact that the made-for-TV Film "Project ALF" was released there theatrically under the name "Alf - Der Film" ("Alf - The Movie") and was panned by critics and fans particularly for the Tanners' absence. It continued where the show left off as ALF was captured by the U.S. army and is imprisoned in a desert base similar to Area 51.

★ Argentina, ALF is being currently transmitted on Nick @ Nite.

★ Australia, ALF was shown on the Seven Network.

★ Austria, ALF was shown on ORF1.

★ Brazil, ALF is being currently transmitted on Nick @ Nite. ALF was also shown on SBT and in early 90's on TV Globo.

★ Belgium, ALF was shown on Kanaal 2

★ Bulgaria, ALF was shown on Kanal 1 and bTV.

★ Canada, ALF was shown on Family Channel.

★ Chile, ALF is being transmitted on Nick @ Nite, TVN and RedTV

★ Costa Rica, shown on Channel 7. The show starts Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. (local time), and has gained an immense popularity, due to its time slot.

★ Czech Republic, ALF was shown on ČT1.

★ Finland, ALF was shown on MTV3.

★ France, ALF was shown on France 2.

★ Germany, ALF was first shown from January 5 1988 to June 28 1991 on ZDF. 100 of 102 episodes were translated into German - Tonight, Tonight was skipped, since Johnny Carson is not known in Germany. Reruns were shown on Sat.1, Kabel 1, Junior, Pro 7, RTL II and Premiere (Premiere is a Pay-TV-Network, but the ALF-Episodes were shown for free).

★ Guatemala, ALF is transmitted on Nick @ Nite and also on Channel 13 of national television weekdays at 9 p.m. (local time).

★ India, ALF was shown on POGO, a children's entertainment channel belonging to the ZEE - Turner Network.

★ Indonesia, ALF was shown on TVRI, the national TV network.

★ Ireland, ALF was shown on Radio Telifís Éireann, the national TV network.

★ Israel, ALF was shown on the IBA1 channel, as a part of the Arab programming.

★ Italy, ALF was run on RAI and Telemontecarlo (TMC, now LA7)

★ Japan, ALF was run on NHK of Japan.

★ Malaysia, ALF was run on TV3 on Saturday Mornings from 2004.

★ Mexico, ALF was shown on the Mexican channel Imevisión (now called Azteca Siete), and is being currently transmitted on Nick @ Nite.

★ The Netherlands, ALF Originally aired on Dutch public television with TROS. It was rerun recently by a commercial cable station in a children's television time slot.

★ New Zealand, ALF was shown on TVNZ's TV2.

★ Norway, ALF was shown on NRK. Reruns were later aired on TV3.

★ Paraguay, ALF is being currently transmitted on Nick @ Nite.

★ Peru, ALF is being transmitted in Peru by Frecuencia Latina (channel 2). This channel first displayed ALF in 1987. In the year 2006 the series has been emitted Monday through Friday at 02:00 p.m. (local time), and is currently transmitted on Nick @ Nite.

★ Philippines, ALF was shown previously on RPN 9 both animated and TV series and presently seen on GMA Network 7.

★ Poland, ALF was shown on TVP1, Polsat, RTL7 and TVN Siedem.

★ Portugal, ALF was shown on Canal1 (former RTP1) and later on Sic Comédia.

★ Russia, ALF was shown on STS, 1ch and Domashniy-channel.

★ Slovakia, ALF was shown on TV Markiza.

★ South Africa, ALF was shown on TV1

★ Spain, ALF was shown on TVE and TVE2.

★ Sweden, ALF aired on SVT.And in 2006 on TV4 Komedi

★ Trinidad and Tobago, ALF was aired on Trinidad and Tobago Television channels 2 and 13 during the 1980s and early 1990s.

★ Ukraine, ALF was run on ICTV in Ukrainian translation. There have been 5 reruns since 1997. On the March 8, 2000 ICTV launched the ALF Marathon, the series were shown all the day long with breaks only for the news blocks. The series returned on March 12, 2007 on ICTV with a great success. It had such success mainly because of VERY good translation.

★ United Kingdom, ALF was aired on ITV and Sky One (1990).

★ Uruguay, ALF was shown on Channel 4 "Montecarlo Television". It was launched in June 17th 1987, and was aired each Wednesday night.

★ Venezuela, ALF was shown on RCTV. This channel displayed ALF in 1987.

★ Yugoslavia, ALF was shown on RTB. In the first episode, Belgrade and Yugoslavia are mentioned. Currently aired daily on Fox TV at 19:30 CET

★ Turkey, ALF was shown first on TRT 1 during early 1980s and late 1990s. It was aired on a now-defunct channel for a while on late 1990s and now it is showing on RetroMax, a channel of Digiturk (Turkish Satellite television)

★ Others, On February 13, 2006 Nickelodeon started transmitting ALF through Nick @ Nite to all Latin American countries.

Episodes

Season 1: 1986-1987

'#'	'Title'	'Screenshot'	'Overview'	'Original Airdate'
'1'	''ALF''			September 22, 1986
'2'	''Strangers in the Night''			September 29, 1986
'3'	''Looking For Lucky''			October 6, 1986
'4'	''Pennsylvania 6-5000''			October 13, 1986
'5'	''Keepin' the Faith''			October 20, 1986
'6'	''For Your Eyes Only''			November 3, 1986
'7'	''Help Me, Rhonda''			November 10, 1986
'8'	''Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?''			November 17, 1986
'9'	''Jump''			November 24, 1986
'10'	''Baby, You Can Drive My Car''			December 1, 1986
'11'	''On the Road Again''			December 8, 1986
'12'	''Oh, Tannerbaum''			December 22, 1986
'13'	''Mother and Child Reunion''			January 12, 1987
'14'	''A Little Bit of Soap''			January 19, 1987
'15'	''I've Got a New Attitude''			February 2, 1987
'16'	''Try to Remember: Part 1''			February 9, 1987
'17'	''Try to Remember: Part 2''			February 9, 1987
'18'	''Border Song''			February 16, 1987
'19'	''Wild Thing''			March 2, 1987
'20'	''Going Out of My Head Over You''			March 16, 1987
'21'	''Lookin' Through the Windows''			March 23, 1987
'22'	''It Isn't Easy ... Bein' Green''			March 30, 1987
'23'	''The Gambler''			April 6, 1987
'24'	''Weird Science''			April 13, 1987
'25'	''La Cucaracha''			May 4, 1987
'26'	''Come Fly With Me''			May 11, 1987

Season 2: 1987-1988

'#'	'Title'	'Screenshot'	'Overview'	'Original Airdate'
'27'	''Working My Way Back to You''			September 21, 1987
'28'	''Somewhere Over the Rerun. aka. The Ballad of Gilligan's Island''			September 28, 1987
'29'	''Take a Look at Me Now''			October 5, 1987
'30'	''Wedding Bell Blues''			October 12, 1987
'31'	''Prime Time''			October 19, 1987
'32'	''Some Enchanted Evening''			October 26, 1987
'33'	''Oh, Pretty Woman''			November 2, 1987
'34'	''Something's Wrong With Me''			November 9, 1987
'35'	''Night Train''			November 16, 1987
'36'	''Isn't it Romantic?''			November 23, 1987
'37'	''Hail to the Chief''			December 7, 1987
'38'	''ALF's Special Christmas: Part 1''			December 14, 1987
'39'	''ALF's Special Christmas: Part 2''			December 14, 1987
'40'	''The Boy Next Door''			January 4, 1988
'41'	''Can I Get a Witness?''			January 11, 1988
'42'	''We're So Sorry, Uncle Albert''			January 25, 1988
'43'	''Someone to Watch Over Me: Part 1''			February 8, 1988
'44'	''Someone to Watch Over Me: Part 2''			February 15, 1988
'45'	''We Gotta Get Out of This Place''			February 22, 1988
'46'	''You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog''			February 29, 1988
'47'	''Hit Me With Your Best Shot''			March 7, 1988
'48'	''Movin' Out''			March 14, 1988
'49'	''I'm Your Puppet''			March 21, 1988
'50'	''Tequila''			March 28, 1988
'51'	''We Are Family''			May 2, 1988
'52'	''Varsity Drag''			May 9, 1988

Season 3: 1988-1989

'#'	'Title'	'Screenshot'	'Overview'	'Original Airdate'
'53'	''Stop in the Name of Love''			October 3, 1988
'54'	''Stairway to Heaven''			October 10, 1988
'55'	''Breaking Up is Hard to Do''			October 17, 1988
'56'	''Tonight, Tonight: Part 1''			October 24, 1988
'57'	''Tonight, Tonight: Part 2''			October 24, 1988
'58'	''Promises, Promises''			October 31, 1988
'59'	''Turkey in the Straw: Part 1''			November 14, 1988
'60'	''Turkey in the Straw: Part 2''			November 15, 1988
'61'	''Changes''			November 21, 1988
'62'	''My Back Pages''			November 28, 1988
'63'	''Alone Again, Naturally''			December 5, 1988
'64'	''Do You Believe in Magic?''			December 12, 1988
'65'	''Hide Away''			January 9, 1989
'66'	''Fight Back''			January 16, 1989
'67'	''Suspicious Minds''			January 23, 1989
'68'	''Baby Love''			February 6, 1989
'69'	''Running Scared''			February 13, 1989
'70'	''Standing in the Shadows of Love''			February 20, 1989
'71'	''Superstition''			February 27, 1989
'72'	''Torn Between Two Lovers''			March 6, 1989
'73'	''Funeral for a Friend''			March 20, 1989
'74'	''Don't Be Afraid of the Dark''			March 27, 1989
'75'	''Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow''			April 10, 1989
'76'	''Like an Old Time Movie''			April 17, 1989
'77'	''Shake, Rattle and Roll''			May 1, 1989
'78'	''Having My Baby''			May 8, 1989

Season 4: 1989-1990

'#'	'Title'	'Screenshot'	'Overview'	'Original Airdate'
'79'	''Baby, Come Back''			September 18, 1989
'80'	''Lies''			September 25, 1989
'81'	''Wanted: Dead or Alive''			October 2, 1989
'82'	''We're in the Money''			October 9, 1989
'83'	''Mind Games''			October 16, 1989
'84'	''Hooked on a Feeling''			October 23, 1989
'85'	''He Ain't Heavy, He's Willie's Brother''			October 30, 1989
'86'	''The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face''			November 6, 1989
'87'	''Live and Let Die''			November 13, 1989
'88'	''Break Up to Make Up''			November 20, 1989
'89'	''Happy Together''			November 27, 1989
'90'	''Fever''			December 4, 1989
'91'	''It's My Party''			December 11, 1989
'92'	''Make 'em Laugh''			January 8, 1990
'93'	''Love on the Rocks''			January 15, 1990
'94'	''True Colors''			January 22, 1990
'95'	''Gimme That Old Time Religion''			January 29, 1990
'96'	''Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades''			February 5, 1990
'97'	''When I'm Sixty-Four''			February 12, 1990
'98'	''Mr. Sandman''			February 19, 1990
'99'	''Stayin' Alive''			February 26, 1990
'100'	''Hungry Like a Wolf''			March 3, 1990
'101'	''I Gotta Be Me''			March 10, 1990
'102'	''Consider Me Gone''			March 24, 1990

DVD releases

Lions Gate Home Entertainment has released all four seasons of ''ALF'' on DVD in Region 1. All releases contain edited episodes (syndicated versions). Lions Gate stated that they had no choice but to use the syndicated episodes as the original episodes' footage was too poor in quality to be used for DVD releases; it would be cost prohibitive to clean up the original broadcast versions for release.

DVD Name	Ep #	Release Date	Additional Information
Season One	25	August 10 2004	Contains all 25 episodes from Season One ★ Interactive menus hosted by ALF himself ★ Gag/Outtakes Reel ★ Original Unaired Pilot ★ ALF Trivia Facts
Season Two	25	August 23 2005	Contains all 25 episodes from Season Two ★ Interactive menus hosted by ALF in his own "ALF Shopping Network" ★ Contains the first episode of '' and the first episode of ''ALF Tales'' ★ The hour-long Christmas special runs at approximately 47 minutes and is unedited
Season Three	28	May 30 2006	Contains all 28 episodes from Season Three ★ Interactive menus hosted by ALF in his own Sirius Satellite Radio show
Season Four	24	September 5 2006	Contains all 24 episodes from Season Four ★ Interactive menus hosted by ALF promoting his own ALF 1000 Cell Phone. ★ Easter Egg on Disc Four ★ The episode "Make 'Em Laugh" runs at 23:27 and is unedited

'Video Service Corp. (VSC)' previously released two other DVDs of ALF. 'The ALF Files' was released exclusively in Canada on November 1, 2002. It contained three episodes, ''"Tonight, Tonight"'', ''"Try to Remember"'', and ''"ALF's Special Christmas"''. On September 13, 2005, they released the 1996 reunion movie, 'Project: Alf'. Some prints of the DVD came with an Alf keychain as a purchasing incentive.
The two-part episodes "Try To Remember," "ALF's Special Christmas," and "Tonight, Tonight" are fused into one episode in their consecutive season sets.
The episodes "Mind Games" and "Fever" were made while in production for Season 3, yet shown on NBC as episodes for Season 4, which probably explains why they were in both season sets.

Spinoffs

Animated Series

To capitalize on the success of the series, a spinoff animated series arose and aired on Saturday mornings on NBC. '','' (AKA ''Alf on Melmac'') set on ALF's home planet of Melmac, ran from 1987 to 1988. The series was a prequel series, set on Melmac before the planet exploded. The show focused on ALF, his family, his friends, and girlfriend Rhonda and their various exploits. Each episode was bookended by a live-action sequence involving ALF talking to the television viewers, setting up the episode.
When the cartoon entered its second season, it was paired in a one-hour block with its own spin-off ''AlfTales'', which took Gordon and the cast of characters from season one and recast them as characters from assorted classic (Earthly) fairy tales.
Select episodes of the first season of the cartoon are included as a special feature on the ALF: Season 2 DVD.

Marvel Comics

An ''ALF'' comic book was published by Star Comics (and eventually Marvel Comics) beginning in 1987 and ran for four years, 50 issues, and nearly a dozen specials.
The comic loosely followed the continuity of the television show (though it featured alternate takes on certain episodes, like the birth of Eric Tanner) and featured numerous parodies of Marvel Comic characters and other pop culture parodies in the form of "Melmac Flashbacks". Towards the end of the series, when the cancellation of the series was imminent, the series took a highly critical position towards Marvel Comics and then Marvel Editor-In-Chief Tom DeFalco.

TV Movie

In 1996 a 90-minute television movie, named ''Project ALF'', was aired on ABC. This movie picked up six years after the events of the TV series with ALF in government custody and focuses on a scientist and military police officer who break ALF out of government custody.
It did not feature any of the Tanner family from the original series, but they were briefly referenced in the movie.

Trivia

★ At the time that the original TV series was popular, some ''ALF''-related merchandise was sold, including a 1988 calendar with Melmac's planetary holidays, such as ''Shout at a Shrub Day'', prominently marked.

★ In 1987, Dutch remixer and producer Ben Liebrand made a mix with samples from one of the ALF-shows. The song was called ''Stuck on Earth''. The mix had a lot of impact at the TV Studio: "Next step was getting permission to release the mix. For this, all vocal lines, and the spoken texts were traced back to the episodes they came from, and the authors who had written them. New record contracts needed to be created for each and everyone of the authors."

★ There is an obscure Sega Master System video game based on ''ALF''. It is an adventure game in which Alf must get pieces to repair his spaceship. There was also a computer game designed for the Commodore 64 as well as other computers.

★ The animated version of Alf also made an appearance in the drug prevention video ''Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue''.

★ ALF has also appeared in one of the numerous long-distance dialing plan commercials on American television, called 10-10-220.

★ ALF has made many appearances on ''Hollywood Squares''.

★ Alf also appeared as a guest on ''.

★ Alf has appeared on several Simpsons episodes. In one cartoon Alf has a cameo in a police lineup of Illegal Aliens. {Others in the lineup include Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still; Chewbacca from Star Wars; and Marvin the Martian from Warner Brothers cartoons.} He also appears "in pog form" as Milhouse van Houten trades Bart Simpson's soul for a rare Alf pog in the episode ''Bart Sells His Soul''. He was also a special guest at Springfield's "Bi-Mon Sci-Fi-Con" alongside Mark Hamill. Alf also appears on many episodes on the cover of Homer's TV Guide (prominently on flashbacks that happened in the 80's, and on old issues of the TV Guide stored in the Simpson's basement).

★ In the 1996 Made-for-TV movie, ALF states an intense dislike for the Fox Television Network.

★ In the movie teaser, Alf has become so adept at playing poker with his guards since his capture that he wins enough possessions to fill an aircraft hangar.

★ Like many shows of its day, ALF also had a trading card series by Topps. Most featured stills from various episodes, but a few cards depicted baseball players complete with bogus stats like "Splats." The yellow bordered first series was released in 1987 with a red bordered second series released in 1988.

★ ALF appeared (in parody) in an episode of Family Guy as a recovering drug addict in a flashback special. Peter also thought Brian's costume was Alf.

★ ALF appeared briefly on Chappelle's Show as a ghost figure, but the puppet design was rushed.

★ Alf has been referenced numerous times on Adult Swim's series "Stroker and Hoop".

★ In an episode of Family Guy, Peter has a dream where he is in a house that is spinning in a tornado (referencing to the Wizard of Oz), where ALF passes and waves at Peter in a rocking chair.

★ Jerry Stahl, writer for episodes of ALF, was portrayed by Ben Stiller (Dorothy Halligan/Anne Meara's real life son) in the autobiographical movie ''Permanent Midnight'', details Stahl's rise to fame and his addiction to heroin. In the movie ALF is portrayed as "Mr. Chompers"

★ At the time the show ALF was popular in Germany, the roadside signs for the Moselle River town of "Alf" were frequently stolen by souvenir hunters.

★ In the "Weird Al" Yankovic song "eBay" (from ''Poodle Hat''), he mentions buying an ALF alarm clock.

★ ALF is referenced in an episode of ''Stargate SG-1'' entitled "SIGHT UNSEEN" (Season 6: Episode 13). In the episode, an alien device causes people to see large, insect-like creatures which exist around us, only in a parallel dimension. The episode ends with Col. Jack O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) convincing a cynical Gulf War vet called Vernon Sharpe that the creatures he has been seeing are aliens -- which is, in fact, a ruse. As the final scene comes to a close, the following exchange takes place:

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★ Vernon: So, what planet are they from?

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★ O’Neill: Who?

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★ Vernon: The aliens.

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★ O’Neill: Oh. A place called Melmac.

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★ Vernon: Isn’t that where ALF is from?

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★ O’Neill: Who?

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★ Vernon: ALF, you know, on TV, the puppet.

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★ O’Neill: Never saw it.

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★ Vernon: No kidding? (Fade to black.)

★ The explanation for adding a baby in the series was that Anne Schedeen was pregnant and was expecting a child at the time.

★ In an episode of the internet video series "Tourette's Guy" an episode from season 1 is on Danny's TV. [1]

External links

★ ''ALF'' Episode Guide -- by Dean Adams

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★ Alf at TV.com

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