Michu Meszaros was the actor within the Alf costume. Paul Fusco operated the Alf puppet, supplied Alf's voice and co-produced the series.

A title character is Gordon Shumway, a little alien nicknamed A.L.F. (Alien Life Form). He was natural 229 years ago in October 28, 1756 on the Lower East side of the planet Melmac. A planet Melmac was set captain hicks parsecs past the Hydra Centaurus Supercluster and had the green sky and blue grass.

Shumway's system is covered sustaining orange fur. He has the rippled snout, facial moles, eight stomachs and likes to eat cats. He attended high school for 122 years and was captain of the Bouillabaisseball team (which is played on ice using shellfish as a ball). His "catch phrase" is "No problem"!

Charted the ham radio signal, he crash-landed into the his pickup of the Tanners, the suburban middle class family including the social worker Willie (Max Wright), his wife Kate (Anne Schedeen), their toddlers Lynn (Andrethe Elson) & Brian (Benji (Ben) Gregory Hertzberg), & Lucky (a cat).

Uncertain what to run, a Tanners require Shumway into their page & hide him from either a Alien Project Click, a military, and their snoopy neighbors, a Ochmoneks until he can repair his spacecraft. He typically hid in the kitchen. It was finally revealed that Melmac was destroyed within the nuclear war, and that Shumway was non lone homeless, but as well, to a right of his noesis, the last survivor of both his civilization and his species. He became the lasting member of the personal, although his culture shock, survivor's guilt, and general boredom, despair, and loneliness frequently caused difficulty for the Tanners.

A original series spans assibilate quatern seasons and 102 episodes, at the prevent of which he is astir to exist as rescued by more survivors of his house planet, however is instead captured per U.s. armed services. the title of each episode is besides the title of a song that is relevant to the episode's plot. Fallowing a series dog around the United States, it went within to potentially greater profits in re-diarrhea in several European Countries like Poland and Germany. A series was and so popular inside Germany in point of fact that a Manufactured for TV Film "Project ALF" was freed there theatrically under a title "Alf Der Film" ("Alf the Movie").

A foremost ALF DVD (The ALF Files) was freed, only withwithin Canada, in 2002. In the summertime of 2004 a first year of a indicate was freed in DVD in the United States, however truehearted fans were super disappointed that the DVD release featured the syndicated version of the episodes which have many minutes cut from either every of the children. This prompted an increase in the low of bootleg tapes of the entire show from either various websites. There exists presently there are no word when to whether the re-release of the uncut original broadcast episodes is issued.

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 Three single)

Spinoffs
2 spinoff animated series arose. Alf: The Animated Series, (AKA Alf on Melmac) attack ALF's house planet of Melmac, ran in Saturday daytime from either 1987 to 1988. The late 2nd series, AlfTales, which took Gordaround & his familiar cohorts on Melmac and laid the babies when characters in classic (Earthly) fairy tales, ran alongside the older cartoon & outlived it by of these year prior to itself existence cancelled within 1989. An ALF comic book was published by Marvel Comics beginning in 1988 and ran for Fifty issues.

Within 1996 a 90-minutes television movie, named Project: ALF, was aired in ABC. This motion-picture show began in which a TV-series experienced ended many years earliest.

At a period that a original TV series was popular, a few ALF-related merchandise was sold, including a 1988 calendar with Melmac's planetary holidays (such as Yell at the Shrub Day) conspicuously marked.

There exists an obscure Sega Master Technique computer game according to ALF. It, even so, lacks decently gameplay & is normally forgotten.

Alf too mass produced the little appearance in the drug prevention video Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.

Recently, ALF has been appearing inside one of a many long-distance dialing plan commercial message in U.s. television. ALF has manufactured numbers of appearances in Hollywood Squares.

Within July 2004, ALF began hosting a half-30 minutes talk show, ''Alf's Hit Talk Show,'' co-hosted by Ed McMahon, on the TV Land network.