ALF (season 3)
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| Country of origin | United States |
|---|---|
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | October 3, 1988 – May 8, 1989 |
The following is a list of episodes from the third season of ALF.[1]
Broadcast history
The season aired Mondays at 8:00-8:30 pm (EST).
DVD release
The season was released on DVD by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
Cast
- Paul Fusco – ALF (puppeteer, voice)
- Lisa Buckley - ALF (assistant puppeteer)
- Bob Fappiano - ALF (assistant puppeteer)
- Max Wright – Willie Tanner
- Anne Schedeen – Kate Tanner
- Andrea Elson – Lynn Tanner
- Benji Gregory – Brian Tanner
Episodes
| No. overall |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 1 | "Stop in the Name of Love" | Nick Havinga | Skip Frank & Gwyn Gurian | October 3, 1988 |
| Lynn's date at the drive-in goes well until she discovers ALF hiding in the back of the car. | |||||
| 54 | 2 | "Stairway to Heaven" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Philip Whitehill | October 10, 1988 |
| ALF meets his guardian angel who makes him see life without the Tanners, and vice-versa. | |||||
| 55 | 3 | "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" | Nick Havinga | Steve Pepoon | October 17, 1988 |
| Trevor and Raquel have a falling-out, so ALF and Jake try to get them back together. | |||||
| 56/57 | 4/5 | "Tonight, Tonight" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Lisa A. Bannick, Steve Pepoon, Al Jean and Michael Reiss | October 24, 1988 |
| ALF hosts The Tonight Show with Ed McMahon and promotes ALF with clips from Season 2. Frederick de Cordova, Teresa Ganzel, Tommy Newsom, Rich Little, Joan Embrey, Tim Wade, Joyce Brothers and Eugene Greytak (as Pope John Paul II) also appear. Note: This is a one-hour clip show. |
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| 58 | 6 | "Promises, Promises" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Beverly Archer | October 31, 1988 |
| ALF reveals that Lynn is dating Eddie to her parents' dismay. | |||||
| 59 | 7 | "Turkey in the Straw: Episode 1" | Nick Havinga | Tom Patchett & Steve Hollander | November 14, 1988 |
| A homeless stranger named Flakey Pete (David Ogden Stiers) sees ALF and calls the Alien Task Force. | |||||
| 60 | 8 | "Turkey in the Straw: Episode 2" | Nick Havinga | Tom Patchett & Steve Hollander | November 15, 1988 |
| The homeless man befriends ALF, but the Alien Task Force are still on their way. Note: Episodes #56 and #57 aired on a consecutive Monday-Tuesday vs. the weekly format. |
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| 61 | 9 | "Changes" | Nick Havinga | Lisa A. Bannick | November 21, 1988 |
| Kate starts working and then discovers that she is pregnant. Note: The plot device of Kate being pregnant was written to accommodate Anne Schedeen's real-life pregnancy. |
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| 62 | 10 | "My Back Pages" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Ron Burla | November 28, 1988 |
| Seeing Willie and Kate reminiscing over their old stuff in the attic and show the family film footage of them attending the Woodstock festival, ALF asks Willie about the 1960s, causing Willie to ponder if he abandoned the ideals he held during those years. | |||||
| 63 | 11 | "Alone Again, Naturally" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Paul Fusco | December 5, 1988 |
| ALF mistakenly believes his cousin Blinky is living in Barstow, getting himself captured by a deranged freak show owner (Kathleen Freeman). | |||||
| 64 | 12 | "Do You Believe in Magic?" | Tony Csiki | Scott Spencer Gorden | December 12, 1988 |
| Willie introduces ALF to simple magic tricks. | |||||
| 65 | 13 | "Hide Away" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Steve Pepoon | January 9, 1989 |
| After a verbose houseguest of Willie's reveals he is in the Witness Protection Program, ALF is convinced gangsters are stalking the Tanners. | |||||
| 66 | 14 | "Fight Back" | Nick Havinga | Seth Weisbord | January 16, 1989 |
| When Jake easily repairs Willie's car, he and ALF think the mechanic may be sabotaging the car for needless repeat business, so they start Operation Sam-Scam to furnish proof. | |||||
| 67 | 15 | "Suspicious Minds" | Nick Havinga | Al Jean & Michael Reiss | January 23, 1989 |
| ALF believes that a reclusive new neighbor is Elvis Presley, and is further convinced when the man displays Elvis-like tendencies. | |||||
| 68 | 16 | "Baby Love" | Nick Havinga | Lisa A. Bannick | February 6, 1989 |
| When Kate's friends throw her a baby shower, ALF is convinced he is allergic to babies after being made to look after one woman's baby in his room. | |||||
| 69 | 17 | "Running Scared" | Gary Shimokawa | Steve Pepoon | February 13, 1989 |
| The extortionist Lee Fraser threatens to turn ALF in to the immigration authorities for being an illegal alien. | |||||
| 70 | 18 | "Standing in the Shadows of Love" | Nick Havinga | David Cohen & Roger S.H. Schulman | February 20, 1989 |
| Jake has a crush on a girl at school named Laura (Carla Gugino) but cannot express his feelings. ALF, inspired by the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, ghostwrites love letters for Jake. | |||||
| 71 | 19 | "Superstition" | Gary Shimokawa | Steve Pepoon | February 27, 1989 |
| ALF blames his streak of bad luck on a Melmac superstition of burning a history book. | |||||
| 72 | 20 | "Torn Between Two Lovers" | Nick Havinga | Beverly Archer | March 6, 1989 |
| Thanks to ALF's mismanaged phone calls, Lynn gets two dates for a dance. | |||||
| 73 | 21 | "Funeral for a Friend" | Paul Fusco | Scott Spencer Gorden | March 20, 1989 |
| ALF acquires an ant farm and then arranges a funeral after the ants die. | |||||
| 74 | 22 | "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" | Nick Havinga | Alicia Marie Schudt | March 27, 1989 |
| To prepare Brian for his Boy Scout trip, ALF and Jake camp out to overcome his fear of the outdoors at night. | |||||
| 75 | 23 | "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" | Howard Storm | Paul Fusco & Lisa A. Bannick | April 10, 1989 |
| Jake's mother visits him and ALF catches her stealing Kate's brooch. | |||||
| 76 | 24 | "Like an Old Time Movie" | Nick Havinga | Nelson Costello | April 17, 1989 |
| While the Tanners are away and leave some old movies to entertain him, ALF imagines in black and white that he and the Tanners are silent-movie stars. | |||||
| 77 | 25 | "Shake, Rattle and Roll" | Nick Havinga | Ron Burla | May 1, 1989 |
| After experiencing a mild earthquake, ALF prepares for the worst. | |||||
| 78 | 26 | "Having My Baby" | Nick Havinga | Lisa A. Bannick | May 8, 1989 |
| ALF re-enacts scenes from The Dick Van Dyke Show, as Kate prepares to give birth. | |||||
References
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