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A listing of the characters from the ALF television series that ran between 1986-1990.
Gordon Shumway, nicknamed ALF (for Alien Life Form) by Willie Tanner in the pilot episode, is an alien from the planet Melmac. ALF was born on October 28, 1756 (though he mentions that his birthday is in August in Episode 7, "Help Me Rhonda") on the Lower East Side of the planet. Melmac was located six parsecs past the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster and had a green sky, pink grass and a purple sun. The commonly-used currency is Wernicks, and the substance we call lint is as precious on Melmac as gold is on Earth.
ALF's body is covered with rust-colored fur (he once described his color as burnt sienna). He has a rippled snout, facial moles, eight stomachs, his heart is apparently located in his head, and he likes to eat cats and had a best friend on his home planet named Malhar Naik. He attended high school for 122 years and was captain of a Bouillabaisseball team (which is played on a normal baseball diamond using fish parts as a ball). He has at least two cousins "Pretty Boy Shumway" and "Blinky", and has had liposuction. During a bout of amnesia, he believed he was an insurance salesman named Wayne Schlegel.
ALF: The Animated Series (also known as ALF on Melmac) is an animated cartoon spin-off based on the live-action Sitcom series ALF. It premiered on September 26, 1987 and ran for 26 episodes. ALF Tales was a spinoff from the series that ran on the NBC television network on Saturdays from August 1988 to December 1989. The show had characters from that series play various characters from fairy tales. The fairy tale was usually altered for comedic effect in a manner relational to Fractured Fairy Tales.
The show was a prequel, depicting ALF's life back on his home planet of Melmac. Since the name "ALF" was an acronym short for Alien Life Form and only given to Gordon Shumway later on Earth, "ALF" is never used in the animated series except for its title. ALF would always be referred to as "Gordon", his true name, or "Gordo" by his friends Rick and Skip. In nearly every episode a live action ALF would appear at the introduction and conclusion of the episode; reading fan mail and saying that this show is a response to a huge demand of people wanting to know what his life was like on Melmac.
Actors: Christopher Walken (actor), Lew Temple (actor), Jerry Springer (actor), Tom Waits (actor), Mickey Rourke (actor), Jacqueline Bisset (actress), Delroy Lindo (actor), Jack McGee (actor), Michael Papajohn (actor), Bob Pepper (actor), Dabney Coleman (actor), Brian Austin Green (actor), Jason Priestley (actor), Jennie Garth (actress), Shannen Doherty (actress),
Plot: The daughter of an actor father and a social-climber mother, Domino Harvey, bored with her life, decides to join the team of Ed Moseby and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafia's money is stolen from an armored truck, while Moseby and his crew are participating in a reality show produced by Mark Heiss. The situation gets out of control when the sons of a rival mobster are kidnapped while the FBI is monitoring two gangs of mobsters.
Keywords: actor-playing-himself, afghanistan, arm-blown-off, arm-ripped-off, arrest, autograph, bag-of-money, bare-chested-male, black-and-white-scene, black-comedyActors: Barber Ali (actor), Pooja Shah (actress), Asier Newman (director), Asier Newman (actor), Asier Newman (producer), Asier Newman (writer), Tiffany Stevenson (producer), Scarlett Byrne (actress), Martin Hazell (composer), Noam Friedlander (producer), Christopher Hazell (actor), George Legg (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Ekremcan Bakir (actor), Ekremcan Bakir (writer), Ekremcan Bakir (director), Tugçe Çeçen (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Short,Actors: Clive Owen (actor), Bill Paterson (actor), Anya Noakes (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Marsh (actor), Tony Garnett (producer), Lee Alliston (actor), Mike Moran (composer), Julie Robinson (miscellaneous crew), Susannah Buxton (costume designer), John Salthouse (actor), Suri Krishnamma (director), Bill Shapter (producer), Danielle Brandon (miscellaneous crew), Rowena King (actress), Kevin Freemantle (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Victor Glynn (miscellaneous crew), Suresh Ayyar (editor), John Jarratt (actor), Tom Burstall (miscellaneous crew), Chris Brown (producer), Wendy Chuck (costume designer), Karen Mansfield (miscellaneous crew), Robert Connolly (producer), John Maynard (producer), Douglas Cummins (producer), Gerard Lee (director), Gerard Lee (writer), Wayne Goodwin (composer), Matt Flannagan (actor), Mark Moffatt (composer),
Plot: Mick's father, Barry, sells the family piano, causing Mick's mother, Irene to leave. In order to raise enough money to buy the piano back, Mick dresses in his mother's clothes and becomes Michelle to join an all-girl band that has come into town for the annual harvest festival. Angela, the leader of the band, starts to question her sexuality when she begins to fall in love with Mick/Michelle.
Keywords: cross-dressingActors: Ken Loach (writer), Ken Loach (director), Willoughby Gray (actor), Rita May (actress), Barry Hines (writer), Mark Elwes (actor), Ted Beyer (actor), Phil Askham (actor), Andrew Grubb (actor), Jackie Shinn (actor), Roger James (editor), Gary Roberts (actor), Chick Barratt (actor), Peter Steels (actor), Philip Firth (actor),
Plot: A simple tale of a year in the life of a Gamekeeper. From the troubles involved in rearing the pheasants and dealing with predators (poachers and foxes). The gamekeeper shows us all the good things about living so close to nature. The end of his year comes with the organised shoot. He has the sudden pressure of dealing with a lot of people, (beaters, the guns and "the master") and ensuring that everyone has a good day and stays safe.
Keywords: based-on-novel, independent-filmActors: Aaron Stell (editor), Harry Cheshire (actor), Harry Davenport (actor), Johnny Duncan (actor), Antonio Filauri (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Robert Emmett Keane (actor), Louis Mason (actor), Oscar O'Shea (actor), Fred F. Sears (actor), Eddy Waller (actor), Mischa Bakaleinikoff (composer), Eddy Chandler (actor), Clinton Rosemond (actor), Robert Gordon (director),
Plot: Tom Cloud and his 12-year-old brother Bill arrive in Kentucky to claim the farm left them by their father and encounter hostile neighbors. "Doc" Richardson, a young veterinarian who rents a cottage on the farm, tells Tom that the animosity arrives from the result of a wager former owner Major Denning had made with his father the night before the Olympian Stakes. The Major lost the bet and Cloud took possession of the property. Tom arranges with the local banker to pay the old man from a small trust fund supposedly left to Major Denning, provided that Denning returns to the farm. But, as guardian of the Major's financial affairs, Tom also learns that he is responsible for the Major's heavy obligations.
Keywords: horse, horse-racingActors: Thurston Hall (actor), Louis Hayward (actor), Ivan Christy (actor), Lowden Adams (actor), Lawrence Grant (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Harry Allen (actor), E.E. Clive (actor), D'Arcy Corrigan (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), J. Gunnis Davis (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), David Dunbar (actor), George Bunny (actor), Herbert Heywood (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: George K. Arthur (actor), Frank Atkinson (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Geneva Mitchell (actress), Una O'Connor (actress), Guy Bolton (writer), Peter Brunelli (composer), Frank Tuttle (director), Alex Troffey (editor), Ralph Forbes (actor), Robert Greig (actor), Arthur Hoyt (actor), Claude King (actor), George Kirby (actor), Herbert Mundin (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Romance,Actors: Robert Armstrong (actor), Roy D'Arcy (actor), Billy Gilbert (actor), Dean Jagger (actor), Scott Seaton (actor), Mary Astor (actress), Malcolm Stuart Boylan (writer), Charles Kenyon (writer), William Fox (miscellaneous crew), James Kevin McGuinness (producer), James Kevin McGuinness (miscellaneous crew), May Boley (actress), James Bradbury Sr. (actor), George Scarborough (writer), Lois Leeson (writer),
Plot: Dee Renaud is a girl playing the "Devil" in an amusement concession at a beach resort. Slick Glicks, the barker, promises the yokels that if they're able to catch the "Lady From Hell," she will reward them with a kiss. But when Glicks tries to go beyond kissing, Dee is rescued by Jim Coakley, son of a New England lighthouse keeper. She marries him out of gratitude and they move to his home on an island off the rockbound coast. Dee tries to convince Jim's salty old father, Pat, that she'll be a good and faithful wife. But she's a passionate woman with a bit of the devil in her, and she flirts with Jim's best friend Alf, who invites her to elope to Havana with him. When Pat is incapacitated, however, Dee loyally remains in the lighthouse to operate the beam and avert a shipwreck.
Keywords: circus, jealousy, lighthouse, melodrama, new-england, resortThis was the one and only
So pure, so pure
You named the stars and told me
They're all yours, they're all yours
And all at once I saw the sign
The very extreme of lies
And my pain
Smothering
My pain
Cover it
I can't feel your pain but
I can taste the rain I've laid
I lost my sense of wonder
There's no cure, there's no cure
I'm losing my head
Smothering
My pain
Cover it
I can't feel no pain
But I can taste the way
It touched my heart bleed
And all at once I saw the sign
The very extreme of lies
It taught me how to cry
Without my strength
I'll handle this
Over and over and i'll
Handle this
Over and over and i
Found way to blame you
Found how to blame you
I can recognize
I've lost so much
I gave so much
I've loved so much
And that's why
You took so much
And you gave so much