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Special Features
- All 25 episodes from the 1986-87 season plus the un-aired pilot, all newly remastered
- Gag/outtake reel
- ALF facts
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
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
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I remember when my father had me watch the show ehn it first aired. I was 5 years old at the time. He taped several episodes which I continued to watch. A few years ago, I was able to gat all the episodes on tape from a friend. The humor became much more understandable as I was 20 years old.
An interesting fact is that almost all the episodes are named after songs and that the episode name often describes the plot.
Here is a brief synopsis of the episodes
Pilot Episode
ALF crash lands his spaceship in the Tanner family's garage and he begins to live with them
Strangers in the Night
The next door neighbor babysits Brian and ALF causes trouble but later catches a burglar
Looking for Lucky
After ALF trashes the house and the family cat, Lucky disappears, the family falsely accuses ALF of eating him.
Pennsylvania 6-5000
When ALF usus Willie's shortwave radio to call the president on Air Force One, Willie is arrested for the crime
Keepin' the Faith
ALF buys $4000 worth of cosmetics and convinces the family to resell them at a higher price
For Your Eyes Only
ALF meets a blind woman on a call in radio show and wants to meet her in person.
Help Me Rhonda
ALF manages to contact his girlfriend, Rhonda, on the shrtwave radio and debates about whether he wants to live with her
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
ALF has a crush on Lynn and makes a rock video to woo her.
Jump
ALF convinces Willie to try again on a skydive that he chickened out on years earlier.
It is nice to have them on DVD. Would it have been better to have the original uncut ones? Hell yeah. But I'll take this. I just hope that if the next seasons are released, that they don't use syndication.
The comments by Alf on the DVD menus are pretty funny, and the blooper reel is awesome (What the hell is that? A plane?) As a long time Alf fan, I'm glad to see these on DVD, but my excitement is tinged with disappointment over them being edited.
The DVD intros recorded by Alf are quite funny. The bit about more FBI warnings made me laugh out loud, as did some of the blooper reel - to hear Alf (mildly) swear made me and my wife really laugh out loud). The syndicated issue aside, the show is STILL damn funny - there's no getting around that issue. :)
NOTE: There's a statement from Lion's Gate on why they have the syndicated versions over the originals online over at TVshowsondvd.com - look in their Alf section.
I am stunned by the rave reviews of the Extras: 1) a short gag reel of which only about 15% is funny, 2) some brief trivia screens which is mostly made up of obvious facts that any fan of the show already knows (like A.L.F. stands for Alien Life Form, for example), and 3) credits screens - credits for the DVD authoring is now considered a bonus extra?!?! Sheesh! Would have made better sense to have included some of the best ALF bits from Hollywood Squares, or even included some of the many commercials ALF has appeared in over the years. Or interviews with the cast reflecting on being a part of the show.
The omission of a feature to play all of the episodes on a disc is simply appalling. Interactive is nice, but can you imagine an audio CD in which you have to select each song separately? Adding this feature would have taken the authors mere minutes to code. I just don't get it.
Rather than deluxe packaging, like you get with most TV series box sets, a clamshell case crams in the four discs in a clunky, overlapping layout. No book, either, just a single sheet listing the discs and episodes, and a slipcover for the case. I've seen public domain sets packaged better.... Read more ›
BOO! HISS! AVOID THIS DVD! Write the studio and tell them you will not sit still for this. Save your money and record the edited versions from TV reruns yourself. Glad I have the uncut network versions from NBC.
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