ALF

ALF is the name of a popular TV sitcom series produced by NBC between 1986 and 1990, inspired by and spoofing the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). It first aired September 22, 1986. This work is presumed to be copyrighted, but its source has not been determined. ... This work is presumed to be copyrighted, but its source has not been determined. ... Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A spoof is a humorous take on an established idea, cultural movement, television program, movie, play, or book. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a Academy Award-winning 1982 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg that tells the story of a young boy, Elliott, who befriends an alien being called E.T. stranded on Earth and trying to find his way home. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ...

Michu Meszaros was the actor within the Alf costume. Paul Fusco operated the Alf puppet, supplied Alf's voice and co-produced the series. Actors in priod costume sharing a joke whilst waiting btween takes during location filming. ... Yarkand ladies summer fashions. ... Paul Fusco (born January 29, 1953) is the voice and puppeteer of ALF. Categories: Actor stubs ... A puppet is any controlled character, whether formed by a shadow, strings, by the use of a glove, by direct mechanical contrivance (for example a cable-controlled figure for film or TV) or electronic guidance (such as a radio or infrared remote controller). ... The word voice can be used to refer to: Sound: The human voice. ...

The title character is Adam Kelsey, a little alien nicknamed A.L.F. (Alien Life Form). He was born 229 years ago on October 28, 1756 on the Lower East side of the planet Melmac. The planet Melmac was located six parsecs past the Hydra Centaurus Supercluster and had a green sky and blue grass. Sir Galahad, a hero of Arthurian legend In mythology and folklore, a hero (male) or heroine (female) is an eminent character who quintessentially embodies key traits valued by its originating culture. ... In popular fiction and conspiracy theories, life forms, especially intelligent life forms, that are of extraterrestrial origin, i. ... A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things real name (for example, Tom is short for Thomas). ... October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 64 days remaining. ... 1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... We are forever reading in our newspapers that our planets are made up of rock. ... 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. ... Jump to: navigation, search The parsec (symbol pc) is a unit of length used in astronomy. ... Hydra is the largest of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy. ... Centaurus (Latin for centaur) was one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy, and counts also among the 88 modern constellations. ... Superclusters are large groupings of smaller galaxy groups and clusters, and are among the largest structures of the cosmos. ... Look up Green on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Green is a color seen commonly in nature. ... A typical daytime sky. ... For other uses, see Blue (disambiguation) Blue is one of the three primary additive colors; blue light has the shortest wavelength range (about 420-490 nanometres) of the three primary colors. ... In popular language grass means a short, green, ground covering or lawn, usually, but not necessarily comprised of a true grass or grasses, called turf. ...

Shumway's body is covered with orange fur. He has a rippled snout, facial moles, eight stomachs and 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). His "catch phrase" is "No problem"! See also Orange (disambiguation) for other meanings of the word. ... The company mainly manages various fur products such as mink,fox hair,rabbit hair and leather garments,scarf,leather cap,gloves,automobile cushion,sofa cushion,carpet,leather mattress,handbag, garment auxiliary materials,shoes inner,motorcycle grip cover,animal craftwork,hair ornaments,etc,also produces handwork articles of wool knitting scarf... The stomach (Gaster) In anatomy, the stomach (in ancient Greek στόμαχος) is an organ in the alimentary canal used to digest food. ... Trinomial name Felis silvestris catus (Linnaeus, 1758) This article is about the domestic cat. ... The Japanese word for a high school is kōtōgakkō (高等学校; literally high school), or kōkō (高校) in short. ... Bouillabaisse is a traditional Provençal fish stew originating from the port city of Marseilles. ... A natural, 4 tonne, block of ice on a beach in Iceland Icicles Ice is the solid form of water. ... Shellfish is a term used to describe shelled molluscs and crustaceans used as food. ... Look up ball in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Following a ham radio signal, he crash-landed into the garage of the Tanners, a suburban middle class family including the social worker Willie (Max Wright), his wife Kate (Anne Schedeen), their children Lynn (Andrea Elson) and Brian (Benji (Ben) Gregory Hertzberg), and Lucky (a cat). Mrs. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ... A Social Worker is [[a person who has obtained a professional degree either as a BSW,MSW, or DSW/Ph. ... Trinomial name Felis silvestris catus (Linnaeus, 1758) This article is about the domestic cat. ...

Unsure what to do, the Tanners take Shumway into their home and hide him from the Alien Task Force, the military, and their nosy neighbors, the Ochmoneks until he could repair his spacecraft. He generally hid in the kitchen. It was eventually revealed that Melmac was destroyed in a nuclear war, and that Shumway was not only homeless, but also, to the best of his knowledge, the last survivor of both his civilization and his species. He became a permanent member of the family, although his culture shock, survivor's guilt, and general boredom, despair, and loneliness frequently caused difficulty for the Tanners. Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta space probe on March 2, 2004. ... A kitchen is a room used for food preparation. ... Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1966. ... A homeless man pushes a cart down the street. ... In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or group of taxons. ... A civilization or civilisation has a variety of meanings related to human society. ... In biology, the most commonly used definition of species was first coined by Ernst Mayr. ... Culture shock is a term used to describe the anxiety and feelings (of surprise, disorientation, confusion, etc. ... Survivor guilt is a type of remorse felt by people who manage to survive a tragic event involving much loss of life, especially the lives of friends and loved ones or other people commonly associated with the survivor. ...

The original series spans over four seasons and 102 episodes, at the end of which he is about to be rescued by other survivors of his home planet, but is instead captured by the American military. The name of every episode is also a name of a song that is relevant to the episode's plot. After the series run in the United States, it went on to even greater success in re-runs in many European Countries such as Poland and Germany. The series was so popular in Germany in fact that the Made for TV Film "Project ALF" was released there theatrically under the name "Alf Der Film" ("Alf the Movie"). The word season has the following uses: As a verb, to season food is to add herbs or spices for the purpose of flavouring. ... An episode is to television and radio what a chapter is to a book: a part of a sequence of a body of work. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ...

The first ALF DVD (The ALF Files) was released, exclusively in Canada, in 2002. In the summer of 2004 the first season of the show was released on DVD in the United States, but loyal fans were very disappointed that the DVD release featured the syndicated version of the episodes which have several minutes cut from each of them. This prompted an increase in the sale of bootleg tapes of the entire show from various websites. There is currently no word as to whether a re-release of the uncut original broadcast episodes will be issued. DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ... As a noun, bootleg means the top part of a boot, the part that is around the leg instead of the foot. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ...

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
• Sean Pasternak - Cousin Jack (Season 3 only)

Max Wright (born on August 2, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan) was an American actor in the hit sitcom Alf. ... 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. ... Liz Sheridan (born April 10, 1929 in Westchester County, New York) is an American actress. ...

Spinoffs

Two spinoff animated series arose. Alf: The Animated Series, (AKA Alf on Melmac) set on ALF's home planet of Melmac, ran on Saturday daytime from 1987 to 1988. A later second series, AlfTales, which took Gordon and his familiar cohorts on Melmac and placed them as characters in classic (Earthly) fairy tales, ran alongside the older cartoon and outlived it by one season before itself being cancelled in 1989. 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. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Cover to Marvel Comics' ALF Annual #1.

An ALF comic book was published by Marvel Comics beginning in 1988 and ran for 50 issues. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (400x642, 90 KB) Summary Cover to Alf Annual #1. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (400x642, 90 KB) Summary Cover to Alf Annual #1. ... Marvel Comics NYSE: MVL, (AKA Marvel Entertainment Group, Marvel Characters, Inc. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Marvel Comics NYSE: MVL, (AKA Marvel Entertainment Group, Marvel Characters, Inc. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1996 a 90-minutes television movie, named Project: ALF, was aired on ABC. This movie started where the TV-series had ended several years earlier. 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... A television movie (also known as a TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, single drama, telemovie, telefilm, or two-hour-long drama) is a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ...

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. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A calendar is a system for naming periods of time, typically days. ...

There is an obscure Sega Master System video game based on ALF. It, however, lacks decent gameplay and is commonly forgotten.

Alf also made a small appearance in the drug prevention video Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. The term narcotic, derived from the Greek word narkotikos, meaning feeling of being stoned, originally referred to a variety of substances that induced levels of high the likes of which have never been seen (such state is narcosis). ... North Korean propaganda showing a soldier destroying the United States Capitol building. ... The characters around Michael Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue is an animated drug prevention television special starring many of the popular cartoon characters from American Saturday morning television, among them Winnie-the-Pooh, Bugs Bunny, Alf, the Muppet Babies, and several others. ...

Recently, ALF has been appearing in one of the numerous long-distance dialing plan commercials on American television. ALF has made many appearances on Hollywood Squares. Long distance in telecommunications, refers to telephone calls made outside a certain area, usually characterized by an area code outside of a local call area. ... The Hollywood Squares is a American television comedy and game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win money and prizes. ...

In July 2004, ALF began hosting a half-hour talk show, Alf's Hit Talk Show, co-hosted by Ed McMahon, on the TV Land network. 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... Alfs Hit Talk Show is an American cable television talk show on the TV Land network. ... Ed McMahon During One of Johnny Carsons Monologues on the Tonight Show Ed McMahon (born Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. ... TV Land is an American cable television network which first started transmissions on April 29, 1996. ...

External links

• ALF Episode Guide -- by Dean Adams
• ALF at the Internet Movie Database
• Open Directory Project: ALF