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DVD ALF - Season One
"He's just like E.T.," says a character of the fuzzy extraterrestrial stranded on Earth in the pilot episode of ALF. But the fun of this late 1980s family sitcom is that the sardonic ALF (an acronym for Alien Life Form) is nothing like the interplanetary innocent of Steven Spielberg's classic. With his whiplash wit and huckster sensibility, ALF (real name: Gordon Shumway from the late planet Melmac, Lower East Side) enters the lives of the Tanner family as a fully formed rascal whose spacecraft crashes into their garage one night. Worried that the feds will chop ALF up for research purposes, the Tanners--father Willie (Max Wright), a cautious civil servant who doesn't like a lot of fuss at home; wife Kate (Anne Shedeen), and kids Lynn (Andrea Elson) and Brian (Benji Gregory)--reluctantly take ALF in like a shambling, profligate uncle who cracks wise despite having fallen on hard times.
There is a touch of darkness to ALF that inspires some interesting episodes. While most of season 1's episodes find the Tanners and their permanent guest struggling with compatibility, certain stories are sharper for indulging a little black comedy. "Looking for Lucky," for instance, finds Willie and Kate assuming that ALF--who is quite open about his fondness for eating cats--made a snack out of the family kitty. In "Pennsylvania 6-5000," Willie is accused of being a terrorist after ALF uses his host's ham radio to contact Air Force One. One of the best episodes, "Wild Thing" (written by David Silverman, later a co-producer on The Simpsons), is a nutty burlesque in which ALF asks the Tanners to lock him in a crate while he undergoes a 24-hour madness peculiar to Melmac-ians. After he escapes, chaos ensues in the community as cats disappear, a gorilla is freed at the zoo, and Willie--looking for ALF--prowls the streets in his pajamas. Fans of Jerry Stahl's book Permanent Midnight: A Memoir, in which the Hollywood writer describes working on ALF while supporting a severe drug habit, will be interested in his season 1 scripts, particularly the surreal "La Cucaracha," in which ALF and Willie do battle with a car-size cockroach. --Tom Keogh
I rented the first two discs from Netflix and enjoyed them. My wife who had never seen them also enjoyed them. However, I will wait for a while and look for a set with full episodes before purchasing them.
The family in Alf is much better than the families in modern sitcoms.
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Well, I'm here in Germany, waiting and waiting for Alf on DVD - nothing ever happens. So I ordered it from the States and I was very happy, when I hold the box in my Hands, just a few days later. I watched this show for years, know every dialog of it and guess what I was thinking, when I put the first DVD in the Player? They raped it! I'm very disapointed, this is not the show I used to know. In some episodes there are important scences missing. And I'm totally suprised, that most of the customer reviews don't care about it. What is it, with you guys? Is all you need just a hairy puppet with funny jokes? Don't need a story? It's like you're renting a house without any walls. And you say: Oh, no problem. I know walls. I've seen them once on TV. It's OK. At least we have a roof. It's in the garage.
Well, after all it's just a TV-Show. But I wont buy the other seasons. You can bet your dead brain on that.
ALF still funny today
I loved Alf when I was a kid and 20 years later it's still as funny as it was back then, maybe more so because I understand the jokes better as an adult. My 6 year old nephew was over a few weeks ago and I put in Season 1 and he watched every episode in one day! He loved it. His birthday is this week and I bought him Season 1 and 2 for his present.
A well-crafted family comedy about a fuzzy space alien who crash lands into the lives of the Tanner family, Alf Season Two spoons up a second serving of 26 episodes as deliciously witty as the first. The diminutive, sardonic Alien Life Form from planet Melmac (voiced by Paul Fusco) becomes an integral (and unabashed) part of the Tanner family in the sitcom's second season of its four-year run (1986-1990), with many of the storylines maximizing Alf's impish onstage chemistry with Willie (Max Wright). Alf is more outspoken this year and viewers will relish the nostalgic romps through his Alien Relocation Program, Melmacian hiccups, and brief stint in a monastery. Alf hosts the David Letterman show, rides the rails with "Boxcar Willie," recites his own rendition of "Born Free," and... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Peter Bonerz DVD Release Date: Released the 23 August 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I loved Alf as a kid, and I am glad I get to enjoy it again on DVD. I also own the first two seasons of Alf. For anyone that enjoyed watching Alf back in the good ol '80s, this is a must buy. Now you can watch Alf anytime you want! :) More Info about this DVD Director(s): Peter Bonerz DVD Release Date: Released the 30 May 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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ALF is a legend in my book. Despite the syndicated copies of the fabulous TV show, I would still recommend this to any ALF fan. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Peter Bonerz DVD Release Date: Released the 05 September 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I was never a big ALF fan, but when I saw this two hour TV film, I gave it a try, Regretfully it has few laughs in it, and you should not go out of your way to see it again. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Dick Lowry DVD Release Date: Released the 13 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Children who love Robin Williams as the voice of Aladdin or as Mrs. Doubtfire will get a blast out of the show that blasted him into the stratosphere, and made "Nanoo, Nanoo" a national catch-phrase. Mork & Mindy, a spin-off of a season 5 Happy Days episode, was a tailor-made star vehicle for Williams, who won a Golden Globe for this inaugural 1978 season. The role of extraterrestrial Mork from Ork gave free reign to Williams's stream-of-consciousness riffing as Mork observed life on Earth and reported back to his leader, Orson, on all that he learned about friendship, love, family, and emotions. As Mindy, the down-to-Earth Boulder, Colorado, girl who takes the stranded alien under her roof, fresh-faced Pam Dawber does her best to keep up. When Williams is really in... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robin Williams DVD Release Date: Released the 07 September 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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