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ALF is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 22, 1986 to March 24, 1990. It was the first television series to be presented in Dolby Surround sound system.

The title character is Gordon Shumway, a friendly extraterrestrial nicknamed ALF (an acronym for Alien Life Form), 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 children, Lynn and Brian Tanner. ALF was performed by puppeteer/creator Paul Fusco.

Produced by Alien Productions, ALF originally ran for four seasons and produced 99 episodes, including three one-hour episodes which were divided into two parts for syndication totaling 102 episodes.

ALF also have two Saturday morning animated series distributed by DiC Entertainment acted as prequels to the live-action sitcom on ALF's life back on Melmac before its eventual destruction from nuclear war.

ALF also did have a TV movie on ABC in 1996, "Project: ALF", which it takes after the series finale of the sitcom that was ended in a cliffhanger where the Alien Task Force finally caught ALF.

ALF did have his own talk show on Nick at Nite's TV Land in 2004. It was short lived, it ran from July 7th to December 17th, 2004.

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