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ALF is a television sitcom that originally ran on NBC from 1986 to 1990 and was created by Paul Fusco. The title character was Gordon Shumway, a friendly extraterrestrial nicknamed ALF for Alien Life Form, who crash lands in the garage of the suburban middle class Tanner family. The series stars Max Wright as father Willie Tanner, Anne Schedeen as mother Kate Tanner, and Andrea Elson and Benji Gregory as their children, Lynn and Brian Tanner. The character of ALF was portrayed by a live-hand puppet operated primarily by Fusco. Hay Willy! Tanners unsure what to do, the take ALF into their home and hide him from the Alien Task Force a part of the U.S. military and their nosy neighbors Trevor and Raquel Ochmonek John LaMotta and Liz Sheridan, until he can repair his spacecraft. He generally hid in the kitchen. It was eventually revealed that ALF's home planet, Melmac, exploded because of a catastrophe involving atomic destructive event although in earlier episodes ALF claimed his planet exploded because of a power surge when all the Melmacians simultaneously activated their hair dryers. In episode four of season one ALF tries to convince the president of the USA to stop the nuclear program as ALF is afraid that Earth might suffer the same fate.