ALF

TV Series
1986–1990
U
25m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

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Paul Fusco and Mihaly 'Michu' Meszaros in ALF (1986)

A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with the Tanner family after crashing into their garage.

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High-Concept Comedy Sitcom Comedy Family Sci-Fi

When an ugly creature, who loves eating cats, crash-lands into the Tanner family's garage, they treat him as a guest and allow him to live with them as he comments on the stupidity of mankin... Read allWhen an ugly creature, who loves eating cats, crash-lands into the Tanner family's garage, they treat him as a guest and allow him to live with them as he comments on the stupidity of mankind.When an ugly creature, who loves eating cats, crash-lands into the Tanner family's garage, they treat him as a guest and allow him to live with them as he comments on the stupidity of mankind.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

41K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,291

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 7 wins & 17 nominations total

Episodes104

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Trivia
Max Wright later said that while he disliked working on the show, he got satisfaction from fan letters sharing how much joy and happiness the show brought them.

Goofs
In the opening credits of seasons 1 and 2, the studio lights are visible in the shot of Brian, on the left.

Quotes
Willie: This is a jigsaw puzzle.
ALF: It's broken.
Willie: That's the object, ALF. You're supposed to put it together.
ALF: Why? I didn't break it.

Crazy credits
ALF can be heard laughing at the end of the closing credits in each episode.

Alternate versions
Many 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, except for: season one's "For your eyes only" lacks one scene due to music licensing issues. For season two's "Somewhere over the Rerun" the shorter syndicated version was used.

Connections
Edited into 2 Everything 2 Terrible 2: Tokyo Drift (2010)

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Best show of the 1980's!

I remember that show was on cbs when I was four to eight years old in '86 to '90. I loved watching that show for 4 years but it was so funny and great show that I ever seen when I was a kid! I remember that episode was Alf crashed to the earth from space to the Tanners' house that he wanted to meet the family because they never met an alien like ALF before. I remember one funny episode that ALF was doing something but it exploded in the kitchen table when they heard the noise then they saw the mess everywhere then Gregory helped to help ALF to clean tme mess what ALF did. It was so funny! I still miss that show for these years since it ended 14 years ago. I still remember that show when I was a child. It was so great! "ALF" is the best show of the late 1980's!