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The former Gordon Shumway, refugee of the long-gone planet Melmac, continues to wreak hilarious havoc upon his adoptive Earth family the Tanners as ALF enters its third season. By this point in time, virtually every member of the viewing public knew that Gordon's "new" name, ALF, was an acronym for Alien Life Form. They also knew that, for all his wisecracks and anti-social excesses (such as eating everything that wasn't nailed down and breaking everything else), ALF had a heart of gold, else why would the Tanners not have turned him over to the dreaded Alien Task Force long ago? Typical third-season episodes include the opener, "Stop in the Name of Love," in which ALF helpfully arranges a blind date for teenager Lynn Tanner (Andrea Elson) after accidentally scaring off her boyfriend; the two-part Thanksgiving story "Turkey in the Straw," wherein a bum repays ALF's generosity by trying to report him to the authorities; "My Back Pages," a flashback to the "hippie" days of uptight suburbanites Willie and Kate Tanner (Max Wright, Anne Schedeen); "Superstition," in which ALF performs a bizarre Melmacian ritual to expunge himself from guilt after destroying the history book possessed by young Brian Tanner (Benji Gregory); and the season finale, "Varsity Drag," the story of ALF's brief and extremely eventful career as a newspaper delivery boy. Though viewership for ALF eroded a bit during its third season thanks to the formidable competition of CBS's Newhart and ABC's MacGyver, the series still managed to end up in a healthy 15th place in the Nielsens. Hal Erickson

Product Details

• UPC: 031398192497
• Source: LIONS GATE
• Region Code: 1
• Presentation: Pan & Scan
• Language: English
• Time: 9:10:00
• Sales Rank: 14,258

This set contains DVDs which may be available separately:

• ALF: Stop in the Name of Love
• ALF: Breaking Up is Hard to Do
• ALF: Like an Old Time Movie
• ALF: Promises, Promises
• ALF: Stairway to Heaven
• ALF: Tonight, Tonight
• ALF: Changes
• ALF: Turkey in the Straw, Part 1
• ALF: Turkey in the Straw, Part 2
• ALF: Do You Believe in Magic
• ALF: Suspicious Minds
• ALF: Baby Love
• ALF: My Back Pages
• ALF: Alone Again, Naturally
• ALF: Hide Away
• ALF: Standing in the Shadows of Love
• ALF: Fight Back
• ALF: Running Scared
• ALF: Shake, Rattle and Roll
• ALF: Having My Baby
• ALF: Superstition
• ALF: Torn Between Two Lovers
• ALF: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
• ALF: Funeral for a Friend
• ALF: Mind Games
• ALF: Fever
• ALF: Have You Seen My Mother, Baby?

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