ALF

TV Series
1986–1990
TV-G
30m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

40K

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POPULARITY

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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

40K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,227

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 7 wins & 18 nominations

Episodes104

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TopTop-rated4 seasons6 years

Trivia
The ALF puppet was operated from various trap doors hidden within the set, making filming more hazardous than a normal sitcom. The cast had to remember where the doors were, so they could avoid 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)

User reviews80

Review

Featured review

8/10

Classic

ALF is a classic show, I remember loving watching this show every week when I was a kid with my brother and parents, ALF was such a funny character and also very cuddly!

I recently saw this show again on DVD when my brother gave it to me for Christmas, didn't watch it until over the last month when I had some free time and the jokes were not as funny now as I remember when I was a kid, but obviously this is a show for families and children to enjoy so that's not too surprising, I bet kids today would still love this show. ALF is still an all time classic character.

I'd recommend this for any family, great for kids with some good morals in the episodes.