Djkanna Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 [align=center]ALF(Alien Life Form)[/align] [align=center][/align] ALF (Paul Fusco) follows an amateur radio signal to Earth and crash-lands into the garage of the Tanners. The Tanners are a suburban middle class family in Los Angeles, California. The family consists of social worker Willie (Max Wright), his wife Kate (Anne Schedeen), their teenage daughter Lynn (Andrea Elson), younger son Brian (Benji Gregory), and their 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 Trevor and Raquel Ochmonek (John LaMotta and Liz Sheridan), until he can repair his spacecraft. He generally hides in the kitchen. It is eventually revealed that ALF's home planet, Melmac, exploded because of a catastrophe involving nuclear war. In episode four of season one ALF tries to convince the president of the USA to stop the nuclear program as ALF is afraid that Earth might suffer a doom similar to Melmac's. ALF was off the planet because he was part of the Melmac Orbit Guard. ALF (a.k.a. Gordon Shumway) is homeless, but he isn't the last survivor of his species. He becomes a permanent member of the family, although his culture shock, survivor guilt, general boredom, despair, and loneliness frequently cause 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 his science project, that there were two planets beyond Pluto called "Dave" and "Alvin", which gets Brian in trouble at school. However, after Willie makes a call to an astronomical organization, he explains to Brian and ALF that "Dave" 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 and without the Tanner family, including Willie's brother Neal (Jim J. Bullock), Kate's mother Dorothy (Anne Meara) (with whom ALF has a love-hate relationship — he refers to her as the Wicked Witch of the West or the Witch of Endor, and she in turn threatens to either make ALF a rug or chauffeur him to an Army base), her boyfriend (later husband) Whizzer (Paul Dooley), the Ochmoneks' nephew Jake, a psychologist named Larry (Bill Daily), and a blind woman named Jody (Andrea Covell) (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 (the reason for adding a baby in the series being that Anne Schedeen was pregnant at the time); ALF's move from his initial quarters in the laundry room to the attic, which he and Willie converted into an "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, although he admits to the Tanners he has become the worst kind of Melmacian, a "cat lover". 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. 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 the series was cancelled. However, the story was concluded in the TV-movie Project ALF. Source-Wiki WikiPedia IMDB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p_T_s Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I love this fury fella... Have all the series on dvd. haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djkanna Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 I love this fury fella... Have all the series on dvd. haha I envy you. Only time I get to watch them is when it's on Sky occasionally. Hulu has them but then again I cannot access that. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickson Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Alf is pure awesome, back then comedy shows we're still spot on, nowadays it's missing something :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djkanna Posted March 21, 2011 Author Share Posted March 21, 2011 Yeah the comedy! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Evans Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Why does that look like my mom... good tv show! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilith Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 OMG, that guy with 7 stomaches that always ate the cat scared me when I was little! Stickem Up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGato Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Why did you put a picture of me? :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djkanna Posted April 22, 2011 Author Share Posted April 22, 2011 Um haha. I think you need to have a little shave Alain. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Come on, you don't understand how sexy hairs are! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djkanna Posted April 22, 2011 Author Share Posted April 22, 2011 Come on, you don't understand how sexy hairs are! Haha... (msg2short) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janiepeter Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Its really awesome that you have posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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