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ALF Episode Guide

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Season 1, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/22/1986
A.L.F.
Gordon Shumway, last known survivor from the planet Melmac, crash-lands his spaceship into the Tanner family's suburban garage. Willie dubs him "ALF", short for Alien Life Form. After convincing a military officer that they are not harboring a space creature, the Tanners decide to take ALF in as a member of the family.

Season 1, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/29/1986
Strangers in the Night
ALF decides to have some fun while a nervous Mrs. Ochmonek baby-sits Brian.

Season 1, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/6/1986
Looking For Lucky
When Lucky the cat disappears, everyone pins the blame on ALF.

Season 1, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/13/1986
Pennsylvania 6-5000
ALF calls the president to address his concerns about nuclear weapons.

Season 1, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/20/1986
Keepin' the Faith
ALF takes a job selling cosmetics over the phone.

Season 1, Episode 6 – Aired: 11/3/1986
For Your Eyes Only
ALF befriends a lonely blind girl.

Season 1, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/10/1986
Help Me, Rhonda
Willie helps homesick ALF arrange a trip to Melmac.

Season 1, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/17/1986
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?
ALF has a crush on Lynn, so he makes a music video to impress her.

Season 1, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/24/1986
Jump
On his 45th birthday, Willie feels unfulfilled, so ALF suggests he go skydiving.

Season 1, Episode 10 – Aired: 12/1/1986
Baby, You Can Drive My Car
ALF sells parts of his spaceship to buy Lynn a Ferrari.

Season 1, Episode 11 – Aired: 12/8/1986
On the Road Again
Willie loses his temper with ALF during a family camping trip.

Season 1, Episode 12 – Aired: 12/22/1986
Oh, Tannerbaum
ALF convinces Willie to travel to the mountains to cut down a real Christmas tree.

Season 1, Episode 13 – Aired: 1/12/1987
Mother and Child Reunion
ALF heads for the garage when Kate's mother pays a visit.

Season 1, Episode 14 – Aired: 1/19/1987
A Little Bit of Soap
ALF submits scripts to his favorite soap opera.

Season 1, Episode 15 – Aired: 2/2/1987
I've Got a New Attitude
ALF plays matchmaker for Kate's mother.

Season 1, Episode 16 – Aired: 2/9/1987
Try to Remember (1)
ALF hits his head and is convinced he is an insurance salesman. The Tanners try reviewing past events to try and jog his memory.

Season 1, Episode 17 – Aired: 2/9/1987
Try to Remember (2)
The Tanners continue to try and jog ALF's memory, and deal with the police at the same time.

Season 1, Episode 18 – Aired: 2/16/1987
Border Song
ALF befriends a young Mexican immigrant.

Season 1, Episode 19 – Aired: 3/2/1987
Wild Thing
ALF goes through a 24-hour period of bizarre behavior.

Season 1, Episode 20 – Aired: 3/16/1987
Going Out of My Head Over You
Willie and ALF both talk to a psychologist.

Season 1, Episode 21 – Aired: 3/23/1987
Lookin' Through the Windows
ALF thinks he witnessed a murder at a neighbor's house.

Season 1, Episode 22 – Aired: 3/30/1987
It Isn't Easy ... Bein' Green
ALF comes to Brian's aid when the boy has to play an asparagus in the school play.

Season 1, Episode 23 – Aired: 4/6/1987
The Gambler
ALF develops a gambling habit and winds up in trouble with his bookie.

Season 1, Episode 24 – Aired: 4/13/1987
Weird Science
Brian causes trouble at school when he repeats some of ALF's intergalactic knowledge.

Season 1, Episode 25 – Aired: 5/4/1987
La Cucaracha
A cockroach from outer space invades the Tanner home.

Season 1, Episode 26 – Aired: 5/11/1987
Come Fly With Me
When Mr. Ochmonek becomes sick during a flight, ALF flies the plane.

Season 2, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/21/1987
Working My Way Back to You
ALF is relocated to the family garage as a result of his mischievous behavior.

Season 2, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/28/1987
Somewhere Over the Rerun (a.k.a.) The Ballad of Gilligan's Island
ALF dreams he visits "Gilligan's Island", with castaways Gilligan, the Skipper, the Professor and Mary Ann.

Season 2, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/5/1987
Take a Look at Me Now
Mrs. Ochmonek thinks she's gone crazy when she spots ALF in the backyard. She takes her story to a TV-show and is devastated when nobody believes her. ALF decides to make things right by talking to her again.

Season 2, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/12/1987
Wedding Bell Blues
ALF joins a monastery after learning that his parents were married before he was born -- a disgrace on the planet Melmac.


Season 2, Episode 5 – Aired:
10/19/1987
Prime Time
The Tanners become a TV-ratings family and ALF decides to rig the system so that his favorite program becomes a hit.

Season 2, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/26/1987
Some Enchanted Evening
ALF becomes the star attraction at the Tanners' Halloween party.

Season 2, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/2/1987
Oh, Pretty Woman
ALF helps Lynn boost her self-confidence by enrolling her in a beauty pageant.


Season 2, Episode 8 – Aired:
11/9/1987
Something's Wrong With Me
ALF gets a severe case of hiccups after being excluded from Dorothy and Whizzer's wedding party. According to Melmacian medicine there are two cures: fresh cat juice and something so disgusting that ALF does not want to mention it. In order to save the wedding the Tanners try to give him fake cat juice.

Season 2, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/16/1987
Night Train
Willie and ALF hop on board a freight train in search of adventure.

Season 2, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/23/1987
Isn't it Romantic?
ALF and the Tanner kids give Willie and Kate a second honeymoon.

Season 2, Episode 11 – Aired: 12/7/1987
Hail to the Chief
Kate dreams that she and ALF are rival presidential candidates.

Season 2, Episode 12 – Aired: 12/14/1987
ALF's Special Christmas (1)
ALF and the Tanners prepare to spend Christmas in a cabin. When the owner comes to visit them, ALF accidentally jumps into his trunk and he is taken to a hospital and given away as a Christmas gift to a little girl.

Season 2, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/14/1987
ALF's Special Christmas (2)
ALF tries to escape from the hospital but ends up stuck in an elevator with a woman in labor. After helping the woman to give birth, ALF pretends to be a toy and the cabin owner puts him back in the trunk and they drive away. When the cabin owner is about to jump off a bridge, ALF disguises himself as Santa and convinces the cabin owner to drive back to the cabin, where ALF is reunited with the Tanners.

Season 2, Episode 14 – Aired: 1/4/1988
The Boy Next Door
ALF befriends the Ochmoneks' belligerent nephew, Jake.

Season 2, Episode 15 – Aired: 1/11/1988
Can I Get a Witness?
ALF demands a fair trial after being accused of throwing a football through the Ochmoneks' window.

Season 2, Episode 16 – Aired: 1/25/1988
We're So Sorry, Uncle Albert
ALF believes that he scared Willie's uncle to death.

Season 2, Episode 17 – Aired: 2/8/1988
Someone to Watch Over Me (1)
ALF lends a hand with the neighborhood block patrol and ends up confronting a prowler in the Ochmoneks' house.

Season 2, Episode 18 – Aired: 2/15/1988
Someone to Watch Over Me (2)
It's up to Willie to save ALF from the SWAT team surrounding the Ochomonek house, in which ALF had been chasing a prowler.

Season 2, Episode 19 – Aired: 2/22/1988
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
ALF moves in with his blind friend, Jody, and learns some important lessons about life without sight.

Season 2, Episode 20 – Aired: 2/29/1988
You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog
ALF, jealous of the attention a stray dog is getting, gives the pooch to a mean old woman who claims to be the owner.

Season 2, Episode 21 – Aired: 3/7/1988
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Willie abandons his belief in pacifism after meeting the hostile father of the bully who's been pushing Brian around.

Season 2, Episode 22 – Aired: 3/14/1988
Movin' Out
Willie has problems trying to sell the house because ALF keeps scaring off potential buyers with phony ghosts.

Season 2, Episode 23 – Aired: 3/21/1988
I'm Your Puppet
ALF's mail-order ventriloquist's dummy takes on a life of its own, and it takes a visit from a psychiatrist to cure him.

Season 2, Episode 24 – Aired: 3/28/1988
Tequila
Kate's friend, a known drinker, sees ALF in the kitchen and thinks she's hallucinating.

Season 2, Episode 25 – Aired: 5/2/1988
We Are Family
ALF fantasizes that he reveals his existence to the world and serves as substitute host on David Letterman's show.

Season 2, Episode 26 – Aired: 5/9/1988
Varsity Drag
ALF takes a job as a paper carrier when he learns that the cost of his upkeep is preventing Lynn from attending her first-choice college.

Season 3, Episode 1 – Aired: 10/3/1988
Stop in the Name of Love
ALF hides out in the back seat during Lynn's date at the drive-in.

Season 3, Episode 2 – Aired: 10/10/1988
Stairway to Heaven
In a fantasy sequence, ALF's guardian angel shows him what the Tanners' lives would be like without him.

Season 3, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/17/1988
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
The Tanners let Trevor Ochmonek stay at their house after he has a fight with his wife.

Season 3, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/24/1988
Tonight, Tonight (1)
ALF hosts The Tonight Show, with Ed McMahon.

Season 3, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/24/1988
Tonight, Tonight (2)
ALF hosts The Tonight Show, with Ed McMahon.

Season 3, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/31/1988
Promises, Promises
Betrayed confidences cause a falling-out between ALF and Lynn.

Season 3, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/14/1988
Turkey in the Straw (1)
The Tanners are invited to a Thanksgiving dinner with the Ochmonek's bizarre relatives.

Season 3, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/15/1988
Turkey in the Straw (2)
ALF must avoid the Alien Task Force when a bum blows the whistle on him.

Season 3, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/21/1988
Changes
Kate goes back to work when a strike sends Willie home.

Season 3, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/28/1988
My Back Pages
After watching some old Woodstock footage, ALF wonders what happened to Willie over the years. Willie has a nightmare of his old college days, with ALF as his roommate influencing his ideals.

Season 3, Episode 11 – Aired: 12/5/1988
Alone Again, Naturally
ALF mistakenly believes his cousin is living in Barstow, when he reads an article in the National Inquisitor.

Season 3, Episode 12 – Aired: 12/12/1988
Do You Believe in Magic?
ALF makes Brian disappear with a mail-order magic kit.

Season 3, Episode 13 – Aired: 1/9/1989
Hide Away
ALF is convinced gangsters are chasing the Tanners' houseguest.

Season 3, Episode 14 – Aired: 1/16/1989
Fight Back
Thinking Willie is getting ripped off at his car repair shop, ALF, Jake and Lynn start Operation Sam-scam to provide proof.

Season 3, Episode 15 – Aired: 1/23/1989
Suspicious Minds
ALF is convinced that a reclusive neighbor is actually Elvis Presley.

Season 3, Episode 16 – Aired: 2/6/1989
Baby Love
ALF has an allergic reaction to a baby.

Season 3, Episode 17 – Aired: 2/13/1989
Running Scared
An extortionist threatens to turn ALF in to the immigration authorities for being an "illegal alien".

Season 3, Episode 18 – Aired: 2/20/1989
Standing in the Shadows of Love
ALF ghostwrites Jake's love letters.

Season 3, Episode 19 – Aired: 2/27/1989
Superstition
ALF blames his streak of bad luck on a Melmac superstition.

Season 3, Episode 20 – Aired: 3/6/1989
Torn Between Two Lovers
Lynn ends up with two dates for a dance through ALF's mishandled phone message.

Season 3, Episode 21 – Aired: 3/20/1989
Funeral for a Friend
Desperate for a pet of his own, ALF acquires an ant farm.

Season 3, Episode 22 – Aired: 3/27/1989
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
ALF and Jake suggest Brian camp out to overcome his fear of the dark.

Season 3, Episode 23 – Aired: 4/10/1989
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
ALF sees Jake's kleptomaniac mother arrives for a visit, and steals a broach from Kate.

Season 3, Episode 24 – Aired: 4/17/1989
Like an Old Time Movie
ALF imagines in black and white that he and the Tanners are silent-movie stars.

Season 3, Episode 25 – Aired: 5/1/1989
Shake, Rattle and Roll
ALF prepares for the worst after experiencing a mild earthquake.

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Season 3, Episode 26 – Aired:
5/8/1989
Having My Baby
ALF prepares for the baby's arrival by re-enacting scenes from The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Season 4, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/18/1989
Baby, Come Back
ALF earns the right to baby-sit Eric, but almost blows it when the child disappears.

Season 4, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/25/1989
Lies
Tabloid photographers accidentally photograph ALF, so the Tanners have to get the film back.

Season 4, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/2/1989
Wanted: Dead or Alive
ALF shields Willie when a criminal resembling him is profiled on a crime-stopper TV show, but Trevor turns him in.

Season 4, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/9/1989
We're in the Money
Using Willie's home computer, ALF discovers and later becomes addicted to the art of making stock-market deals.

Season 4, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/16/1989
Mind Games
After a visit from a psychologist, ALF subjects the Tanners to a barrage of unwanted psychoanalysis.

Season 4, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/23/1989
Hooked on a Feeling
Willie, in an effort to curb ALF's cotton addiction, holds a support group meeting in his living room.

Season 4, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/30/1989
He Ain't Heavy, He's Willie's Brother
ALF, forced to hide, plots the removal of Willie's visiting brother Neal.

Season 4, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/6/1989
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
ALF gets peeved about having to remain hidden while Willie's brother extends his visit.

Season 4, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/13/1989
Live and Let Die
ALF's attitude toward cats changes after his first encounter with kittens.

Season 4, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/20/1989
Break Up to Make Up
Whizzer comes face-to-face with ALF when he searches for Dorothy at the Tanners.

Season 4, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/27/1989
Happy Together
ALF, on the outs with the Tanners, is offered a place to stay by Neal.

Season 4, Episode 12 – Aired: 12/4/1989
Fever
The Tanners pamper ALF after he catches his first Earth cold.

Season 4, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/11/1989
It's My Party
ALF is relegated once again to the attic when the Tanners throw a Hawaiian luau.

Season 4, Episode 14 – Aired: 1/8/1990
Make 'em Laugh
ALF dreams he's a famous stand-up comic.

Season 4, Episode 15 – Aired: 1/15/1990
Love on the Rocks
Neal and his ex-wife Margaret reconcile, but ALF goes a long way to prove her motives are less than honest.

Season 4, Episode 16 – Aired: 1/22/1990
True Colors
ALF enters the art world after he earns praise for a still life made from food.

Season 4, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/29/1990
Gimme That Old Time Religion
As a newly ordained Melmacian minister, ALF must officiate a ceremony on Earth.

Season 4, Episode 18 – Aired: 2/5/1990
Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
ALF considers the future with the Tanners, who will age faster than the ageless alien.

Season 4, Episode 19 – Aired: 2/12/1990
When I'm Sixty-Four
ALF encounters youth-seeking senior citizens when he's discovered sneaking into a retirement home.

Season 4, Episode 20 – Aired: 2/19/1990
Mr. Sandman
ALF and Willie scour Death Valley for buried treasure after discovering an old map.

Season 4, Episode 21 – Aired: 2/26/1990
Stayin' Alive
A morally outraged ALF writes nasty letters to a pollution-producing company.

Season 4, Episode 22 – Aired: 3/3/1990
Hungry Like the Wolf
ALF takes to the park in search of food after his diet fails.

Season 4, Episode 23 – Aired: 3/10/1990
I Gotta Be Me
ALF is the only one excited by the idea of Lynn moving in with her boyfriend.

Season 4, Episode 24 – Aired: 3/24/1990
Consider Me Gone
It's a sad day in the Tanner household as ALF announces he's leaving Earth to settle on another planet with Skip and Rhonda, but ALF is captured by the Alien Task Force before he can get to their spaceship.

TV Movie. Season 4, Episode 25 – Aired: 2/17/1996
Project: ALF
Six years ago, ALF was on his way back to his new home... When the Alien Task Force finally caught him. Now, the story continues to where the series ended. The Alien Task Force now protects ALF, but the leader wants to terminate him. So two officers decide to save ALF by kidnapping him. But the man the officers took ALF to wants to finally reveal him to the world. Which leads him to more danger...

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