by Romain and Adrien (Jan 17, 2005)

What is it ? and what is the story ?

The TV series ALF is about an alien life form (ALF) named Gordon Shumway whose spaceship crashed into the garage of the Tanner family in Los Angeles. He comes from the planet Melmac. The Tanner family decided to hide ALF from the alien task force and he was allowed to stay. He never ate cats on Melmac, he never ate Lucky, the cat of the Tanner family, but he constantly
tried to.

The program

In the US, ALF was originally broadcast on NBC from 1986 until 1990. It was a cool sitcom (30 minutes long) and had a lot of success.

Cast

Josh Blake - Jake Ochmonek (1988-1990)
Andrea Elson - Lynn Tanner
Paul Fusco - Gordon "ALF" Shumway [Voice/Puppeteer]
Benji Gregory - Brian Tanner
John LaMotta - Trevor Ochmonek
Anne Schedeen - Katherine Daphne 'Kate' Halligan Tanner
Liz Sheridan - Raquel Ochmonek
Max Wright - William "Willie" Tanner

ALF movies

While in the USA, "Project ALF" was only shown on TV, in Germany, due to ALF's popularity. Here still in 1996, the TV movie came into the theaters! It was not that successful in the cinema, though, but around 250,000 people watched ALF in the German movie theaters (although ALF, the TV series, was shown daily on TV at the same time). A few months later, the American TV
movie "Project: ALF", which was called "ALF - der Film" in Germany, came into the video stores. And in 1998, finally "Project: ALF" was shown on Germany TV. 3.2 million people watched the film , but it’s more than every other big motion picture had that evening.

ALF Merchandising

Especially in the late 80s, really lots of ALF products were in the shops. Those products were books , posters ,video tapes ,cassettes, comics, tooth brushes, bed linen, etc.

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