A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with the Tanner family after crashing into their garage.A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with the Tanner family after crashing into their garage.A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with the Tanner family after crashing into their garage.
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The Tanner family is an average American family. One day, they discover that they have a visitor. He's small, he's furry, he's arrogant, and he's an alien from the planet Melmac. Unsure what to do, they name him ALF: Alien Life Form. Alf soon decides that as much as he misses his home planet, there's a lot to be said for Earth: the Tanners are willing to concede anything as long as he doesn't announce his presence. Oh yeah, the Tanners also have a cat, which looks rather tasty... —Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
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- TriviaIn the years since the show was cancelled, Max Wright and Anne Schedeen have said that tensions were very high on the set. The show's technical demands made for very long shooting schedules, and none of the actors enjoyed playing supporting roles to a puppet who always had the best lines.
- GoofsIn the opening credits of seasons 1 and 2, the studio lights are visible in the shot of Brian, on the left.
- Crazy creditsALF can be heard laughing at the end of the closing credits in each episode.
- Alternate versionsMany of the syndicated episodes from the American DVD sets are further edited to remove music and songs which were claimed too expensive to license for home video. In a few cases, this results in episodes which run for less than 20 minutes! The European sets released by Warner does not suffer from these problems.
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Alien Life-Form. Those were the days...
Saturday teatime viewing in the '80's along with stuff like "The A-Team". ALF pretty much reeks of its decade, which is probably why it was cancelled in early 1990. It's by no means the first show to revolve around such a concept; in fact, stylistically I remember it being very similar to "Bigfoot & the Hendersons". Unfathomably though, ALF was somehow more lovable than Bigfoot, enough to spawn merchandise like cuddly toys, amongst other things. Must've been the charm of the show itself, rather than the looks of its furry star! Even as an adult, there are few things more entertaining than a guy in a costume cracking wise. The humour was never vulgar, but often funny, a balance that many shows in this format often fail to strike. Better it had a brief but successful run rather than drag itself out embarrassingly past its sell-by-date. ALF was very much a product of his time, and that perhaps is why I remember him so fondly. It seems like it was produced in the halcyon days of family viewing. They really DON'T make 'em like this anymore...
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- Howlin Wolf
- Mar 7, 2004
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