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ALF
ALF
Format	Sitcom
Created by	Tom Patchett Paul Fusco
Starring	Paul Fusco Max Wright Anne Schedeen Andrea Elson Benji Gregory Lucky the cat {himself} Michu Meszaros
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	102
Production
Executive producer(s)	Tom Patchett Paul Fusco
Running time	30 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	September 22, 1986 – March 24, 1990
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

ALF is a 30-minute television sitcom that originally ran on NBC from 1986 to 1990. The plot involves the title character Gordon Shumway, an alien nicknamed A.L.F. or (Alien Life Form) portrayed by Paul Fusco and Michu Meszaros, who crash lands in the garage of the suburban middle class Tanner family. The series stars Max Wright as father Willie Tanner, Anne Schedeen as mother Kate Tanner, and Andrea Elson and Benji Gregory as their two children, Lynn and Brian Tanner. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... This work is presumed to be copyrighted, but its source has not been determined. ... This article is about a genre of comedy. ... Paul Fusco (born January 29, 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American voice actor who is best known as the voice, creator, and puppeteer of ALF. He is also Vice President of Alien Productions. ... Paul Fusco (born January 29, 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American voice actor who is best known as the voice, creator, and puppeteer of ALF. He is also Vice President of Alien Productions. ... Max Wright (born August 2, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actor best known for his role as Willie Tanner in the sitcom ALF. He had previously made appearances in TV shows such as WKRP in Cincinnati, and was a regular cast member in Misfits of Science, Buffalo Bill... Anne Schedeen (born on January 7, 1949) is an actress who starred as Kate Tanner in the sitcom Alf. ... Andrea Elson (born 6 March 1969 in New York, New York) is an American actress. ... Image:Benjigregory. ... Mihaly Michu Meszaros was an Hungarian performer best remembered as the man behind the costume in the NBC sitcom ALF. A native of Budapest, the three-foot tall Meszaros appeared in numerous television and film projects. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Paul Fusco (born January 29, 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American voice actor who is best known as the voice, creator, and puppeteer of ALF. He is also Vice President of Alien Productions. ... This article is about the television network. ... is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... This article is about the television network. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... EXAMPLE:Laughbox,Blondie,BamBam,Pinkie,etc. ... Paul Fusco (born January 29, 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American voice actor who is best known as the voice, creator, and puppeteer of ALF. He is also Vice President of Alien Productions. ... Mihaly Michu Meszaros was an Hungarian performer best remembered as the man behind the costume in the NBC sitcom ALF. A native of Budapest, the three-foot tall Meszaros appeared in numerous television and film projects. ... Max Wright (born August 2, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actor best known for his role as Willie Tanner in the sitcom ALF. He had previously made appearances in TV shows such as WKRP in Cincinnati, and was a regular cast member in Misfits of Science, Buffalo Bill... Anne Schedeen (born on January 7, 1949) is an actress who starred as Kate Tanner in the sitcom Alf. ... Andrea Elson (born 6 March 1969 in New York, New York) is an American actress. ... Image:Benjigregory. ...

Premise

ALF follows an amateur radio signal to Earth and crash-lands into the garage of the Tanners. The Tanners are a suburban middle class family consisting of the social worker Willie, his wife Kate, their children Lynn and Brian, and the cat Lucky. Amateur radio station with modern solid-state transceiver featuring LCD and DSP capabilities Amateur radio, often called ham radio, is both a hobby and a service that uses various types of radio communications equipment to communicate with other radio amateurs for public service, recreation and self-training. ...

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 Alf's home planet Melmac exploded because of a catastrophe involving nuclear bombs. ALF in Episode four of season one is trying to convince the president of USA to stop the nuclear program as he is scared that Earth might share Melmac's fate. ALF was off the planet because he was part of the Melmac Orbit Guard. Shumway is homeless, but he isn't the last survivor of 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. Melmac was a fictional planet in the television series ALF. Melmac was discovered 23,000 years ago when Harold Twink accidentally took the wrong exit for Neptune. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Survivor guilt, otherwise known as survivor syndrome, is the mental condition that results from the appraisal that a person has done wrong by surviving traumatic events such as combat, natural disasters, or even surviving a lay-off in a work place. ...

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 "Dave" could have been the planetoid Chiron, or "Object Kowal", after its discoverer. 2060 Chiron (IPA: ) is an object in the outer solar system with an orbit between those of Saturn and Uranus and a radius of 71±5 km [1]. Although it was initially classified as an asteroid, later dispute arose as to whether it was an asteroid or actually a comet. ...

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, Kate's mother Dorothy (with whom Alf has a love-hate relationship — he refers to her as the Wicked Witch of the West), 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 (The explanation for adding a baby in the series was that Anne Schedeen was pregnant and expecting a child at the time), 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. The Wicked Witch, as portrayed by Margaret Hamilton in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz The Wicked Witch of the West (or simply The Wicked Witch) is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum in his childrens books. ... For other uses, see Psychiatrist (disambiguation). ... Anne Schedeen (born on January 7, 1949) is an actress who starred as Kate Tanner in the sitcom Alf. ...

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, supplied Alf's voice, and co-produced the series with Tom Patchett. Patchett also co-created, wrote, and directed the series. John LaMotta (born January 1, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York[1] is an American actor best know for his role Trevor Ochmonek, in the sitcom ALF. // John LaMotta played numerous small roles on television including the series ER, Growing Pains, and Frasier. ... Liz Sheridan (born April 10, 1929 in Westchester County, New York) is an American actress. ... Josh Blake born as Joshua Buxbaum (January 7, 1975 in New York City, New York)[1] is an American actor best known for his role Jake Ochmonek, in the sitcom ALF. // Blake has played numerous small roles on television including the series Full House, Married With Children, and The Wonder... Jim J. Bullock AKA JM J. Bullock (born James Jackson Bullock on February 9, 1955 in Casper, Wyoming)[2] is an American actor. ...

Notable Guest Starring Cast

• Bill Daily - Dr. Larry Dykstra
• Anne Meara - Dorothy Halligan Deaver
• Paul Dooley - Whizzer Deaver

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ALF Character

Gordon Shumway is an alien nicknamed A.L.F or (Alien Life Form). ALF was born on October 28, 1756, though he mentions that his birthday is in August in Episode 7 ("Help Me Rhonda") on the Lower East Side of the planet Melmac. 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 Wernicks, and the substance we call "Foam" is as precious on Melmac as gold is on Earth. EXAMPLE:Laughbox,Blondie,BamBam,Pinkie,etc. ... is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Melmac was a fictional planet in the television series ALF. Melmac was discovered 23,000 years ago when Harold Twink accidentally took the wrong exit for Neptune. ... A parsec is the distance from the Earth to an astronomical object which has a parallax angle of one arcsecond. ... The Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster, or the Hydra and Centaurus superclusters, is a supercluster in two parts and the closest neighbour of Milky Ways Local Supercluster. ...

ALF's body is covered with rust-colored fur(he once described his color as burnt sienna). He has a rippled snout, facial moles, eight stomachs, and he likes to eat cats. He attended high school for 122 years and was captain of a Bouillabaisseball team (which is played on ice using shellfish as a ball). For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... This article is about the food. ... Cooked mussels Shellfish is a term used to describe shelled molluscs and crustaceans used as food. ...

ALF is troublesome, sarcastic and cynical, and sometimes he puts himself at the risk of being discovered while doing some of his often unintentional pranks. However, if things have gone too far, he does as possible to make up for his mistakes, generally with good results. In one episode, he tried to help Brian to gain confidence during a school show, because he was too afraid to perform. In another occasion, he helped Dorothy to deal with Sparky's death and move on, and accept Whizzer's friendship. And he also helped Rachel Ochmonek with a depression she suffered, because she became the laughing stock in a TV program.

Production

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.

Paul Fusco was the primary puppeteer. He used one hand to control ALF's mouth leaving the other free to control one of the puppet's arms. 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 (Bob Fappiano), 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. During tapings Paul would wear a "halo" which was used to record his voice for the ALF character. All of this made for a painstaking process and there were countless mistakes and retakes.

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. Late Night with Conan OBrien is an Emmy Award-winning American late night talk show that is syndicated worldwide. ... Elizabeth Stamatina Tina Fey (born May 18, 1970) is an Emmy-winning American writer, comedian and actress. ... This article is about the television network. ...

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.) Mihaly Michu Meszaros was an Hungarian performer best remembered as the man behind the costume in the NBC sitcom ALF. A native of Budapest, the three-foot tall Meszaros appeared in numerous television and film projects. ...

The series was independently produced by Alien Productions, a dummy company owned by the same production consortium that produced The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, The Slap Maxwell Story, and Buffalo Bill. The series was syndicated by Warner Bros. Television and Lorimar-Telepictures, however WBTV does not own the video rights--those rights are held by Lionsgate under license from Alien Productions. The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd was an NBC/Lifetime dramedy that debuted in 1987. ... The Slap Maxwell Story (sometimes seen in print as The Slap Maxwell Story) was a situation comedy broadcast in the United States by ABC as part of its 1987-88 lineup. ... Buffalo Bill was an American television situation comedy that featured the misadventures of an egotistical talk show host and his staff at a small TV station in Buffalo, New York. ... Warner Bros. ... Lorimar-Telepictures was a television syndication firm established in 1986 with the merger of Lorimar and Telepictures. ... Lions Gate redirects here. ...

Episodes

Season 1: 1986-1987

Season 2: 1987-1988

Season 3: 1988-1989

Season 4: 1989-1990

• Final three episodes were moved from Monday night to Saturday night.

Spinoffs

Animated Series

To capitalize on the success of the series, a spinoff animated series arose and aired on Saturday mornings on NBC. Alf: The Animated Series, set on ALF's home planet of Melmac, ran from 1987 to 1988 and was produced by DIC Entertainment. 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. A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...

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 fairy tales. AlfTales was an animated American series that ran on the NBC television network on Saturdays from August 1988 to December 1989. ... A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ...

Select episodes of the first season of the cartoon are included as a special feature on the ALF: Season 2 DVD.

Marvel Comics

Cover to Marvel Comics' ALF Annual #1.

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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. Tom DeFalco (born June 26, 1950) is an American comics writer and editor. ...

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, but they were briefly referenced in the movie. Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... “Telefilm” redirects here. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... This article is about the American broadcast network. ...

The series was so popular in Germany that the TV Movie was released there theatrically under the name Alf - Der Film (Alf - The Movie) and was panned by critics and by 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. Also in Germany at the time the show ALF was on, the roadside signs for the Moselle River town of "Alf" were frequently stolen by souvenir hunters. This article is about the U.S. Air Force installation in Nevada. ... This article is about the river in France, Luxembourg & Germany. ...

Other media

Merchandise

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 parodied baseball cards by depicting players of the Melmacian sport "Bouillabaisseball", complete with stats such as "Splats." The yellow bordered first series was released in 1987 with a red bordered second series released in 1988. Various trading cards A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card which is intended for trading and collecting. ... For the meat company, see Topps Meat Company. ... Baseball cards from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s A baseball card is a small card printed on heavy paper stock, featuring one or more baseball players. ...

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 marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a market that might satisfy a want or need. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Calendar (disambiguation) A page from the Hindu calendar 1871–1872. ...

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 Sega Master System ) or SMS for short (1986 - 2000), is an 8-bit cartridge-based video game console that was manufactured by Sega. ... C-64 redirects here. ...

Music

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."^[1] This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Appearances / References in other Media

• Jerry Stahl, writer for episodes of ALF, was portrayed by Ben Stiller 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"

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

• ALF also appeared in the long-distance plan 10-10-220 commercials on American television.

• ALF has made many appearances on Hollywood Squares.

• ALF appeared as a guest on The Love Boat: The Next Wave.

• ALF has appeared in 2 episodes of Family Guy one as a recovering drug addict in a flashback special. Peter also thought Brian's costume was Alf. Also he appeared in the episode "I Never Met the Dead Man"; Peter has a dream where he is in a house that is spinning in a tornado (referencing The Wizard of Oz), where ALF passes and waves at Peter in a rocking chair.

• ALF appeared briefly on Chappelle's Show as a ghost figure.

• ALF has appeared on several The Simpsons episodes. In one cartoon Alf has a cameo in a police lineup of Illegal Aliens. He also appears "in pog form" as Milhouse van Houten trades Bart Simpson's soul for $5 in the episode Bart Sells His Soul. He was also a special guest at Springfield's "Bi-Mon Sci-Fi-Con". Alf also appears on many episodes on the cover of Homer's TV Guide (prominently on flashbacks that happened in the '80s, and on old issues of the TV Guide stored in the Simpson's basement).

• ALF has been referenced many times on the Adult Swim series Stroker and Hoop.

• ALF is referenced in an episode of Stargate SG-1 entitled "SIGHT UNSEEN". As the final scene comes to a close, the joke applied is a reference to the fact that Anderson's previous show, MacGyver, aired opposite of ALF during most if its run.

• ALF was referenced in the second season of 30 Rock. ALF was one of Dr. Spaceman's famous clients whom he kept photographs of on his wall.

• In November of 2007, ALF appeared as a guest on The O'Reilly Factor.

• Alf was mentioned in the CBC show Arrested Development When the star said "Thats the horrble blood-sucking Alien? It looks Like ALF

• ALF is mentioned in "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "eBay" from his Poodle Hat CD. In the song about the "worldwide garage sale" that is the auction website, he asks "Why did I buy that ALF alarm clock?"

• Alf is mentioned in Scrubs, when JD says what in his opinion is funny.^{[episode needed]}

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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), although "Try to Remember" from season one, "ALF's Special Christmas" from season two, and "Make 'em Laugh" from season four were unedited. Lions Gate claimed 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 (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... The following is an excerpt of the article entitled DVD. For the sake of convenience, the terms Region 0, Region 1, Region 2, Region 3, Region 4, Region 5, Region 6, Region 7 and Region 8 redirect to this page. ...

Video Service Corp. 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", but unlike the season sets, these episodes were presented in their full length, unedited versions. On September 13, 2005 Project: Alf was released. Some prints of the DVD came with an Alf keychain as a purchasing incentive. is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... {| style=float:right; |- | |- | |} is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... ALF Tales was an animated American series that ran on the NBC television network on Saturdays from August 1988 to December 1989. ... is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sirius Satellite Radio NASDAQ: SIRI is one of two satellite radio (SDARS) services operating in the United States and Canada, along with XM Satellite Radio. ... is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motorola T2288 mobile phone A mobile phone is a portable electronic device which behaves as a normal telephone whilst being able to move over a wide area (compare cordless phone which acts as a telephone only within a limited range). ... A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. ... is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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 explains why they were in both season sets.

Other transmissions

After the series run in the United States, it went on to even greater success in reruns in many European countries.

• Argentina, ALF is being currently transmitted on Nick @ Nite and Telefé.
• Australia, ALF was shown on the Seven and Nine Networks.
• Austria, ALF was shown on ORF1.
• Brazil, ALF is being currently transmitted on Nick @ Nite. And 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, currently on GTV.
• Canada, ALF was shown on Family Channel. Currently talks are underway to revive Alf in a major motion picture by Cory Wilson and Janet Shaikh of Calgary
• Chile, ALF is being transmitted on Nick @ Nite, TVN and Red TV
• Costa Rica, shown on Teletica Channel 7. Airing on Saturdays at 12:30 p.m.
• Croatia, ALF was shown on HRT.
• Czech Republic, ALF was shown on ČT1.
• Finland, ALF was shown on MTV, Kolmoskanava and MTV3.
• France, ALF was shown on France 2, France 5 and Sci-Fi.
• Germany, ALF was first shown from January 5, 1988 to June 28, 1991 on ZDF. and has had reruns shown on many different stations.
• Greece, ALF was shown on ET1/NET during the 1980s
• Guatemala, ALF is aired on Nick @ Nite and also on Channel 13 of National Television Weekdays at 9 p.m.
• India, ALF was shown on POGO, a children's entertainment channel of 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 IBA1
• Italy, ALF was run on RAI and Telemontecarlo (TMC, now LA7)
• Japan, ALF was run on NHK of Japan
• Latin America, On February 13, 2006 Nickelodeon started transmitting ALF through Nick @ Nite to all Latin American countries.
• Malaysia, ALF was run on TV3 on Saturday Mornings from 2004.
• Malta, ALF was shown on MTV (Maltese Television) but has since been discontinued.
• Mexico, ALF was shown on the Mexican channel Imevisión (now called Azteca Siete), and is currently aired on Nick @ Nite
• The Netherlands, ALF Originally aired on Dutch public television [TROS]]
• New Zealand, ALF was shown on TVNZ's TV2.
• Norway, ALF was shown on NRK. Reruns were later aired on TV3.
• Pakistan, ALF was shown on PTV during the 80's.
• Paraguay, ALF is being currently transmitted on channel 4 Telefuturo
• Peru, ALF was shown by Frecuencia Latina (channel 2). This channel aired ALF in 1987.
• Philippines, ALF was shown on RPN 9 and on GMA Network.
• 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, Domashniy-channel and Vostochniy Express-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.
• Turkey, ALF was shown on TRT 1 and TRT 2.
• Ukraine, ALF was run on ICTV, There have been 5 separate reruns since 1997. The series returned in 2007 on ICTV
• United Kingdom, ALF was aired on ITV and Sky One, This channel aired ALF in 1990.
• Uruguay, ALF was shown on Channel 4 "Montecarlo Television". This channel aired ALF in 1987, and was shown on Wednesday nights.
• Venezuela, ALF was shown on RCTV and Televen.
• Yugoslavia (Serbia), ALF was shown on RTB. Currently aired daily on Fox TV at 19:30 CET
• Turkey, ALF was shown first on TRT 1 and TRT 2 during early 1980s and late 1990s. and now it is showing on RetroMax.

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References

 http://mixhistory.mixfreaks.nl/Liebrand/mini1987.html 

 [www.tvshows.de / Stephan Ramdohr (MAXX-press-Redaktion) in 27/12/1996 

Last Update: 8 February 2005][1]

See also

• ALF characters

External links

• ALF Episode Guide
• ALF at the Internet Movie Database
• ALF at the Open Directory Project