'ALF' is set for a comeback
ALF (Credit: Warner Bros)
Lock up your cats… ALF, the Alien Life Form, is set for a comeback.
A reboot of the 80s sitcom is currently in development at Warner Bros, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Seemingly the series would be a reboot, and would find the wise-cracking creature returning to Earth to live with a new family.
The show’s original creators, Tom Patchett and Paul Fusco, who voiced ALF, are said to be on board.
If the development makes it to the screen, it joins a raft of rebooted shows to be announced, some of the most recent being Magnum P.I., Dynasty, Miami Vice, The Jetsons and The Munsters.
The show ran from 1986 to 1990, over four series and just over 100 episodes.
It followed the Tanner family who take in ALF, who hails from the planet Melmac, after he crash lands in their garage.
The bleak way that series ended, however, has long been debated.
In the final episode, after he’s contacted by fellow aliens from Melmac who invite him to join them in colonising a new planet, he decides to make the leap to a bright new future with his own species.
However, as he’s about to board the spaceship, the Alien Task Force – who had been searching for ALF since the first episode, threatening to catch and experiment on him – turn up and finally capture him.
It traumatised a generation of kids.
As it transpired, it was set to be a cliffhanger episode, but then the series was cancelled, leaving children to presume that ALF had met the worst end possible.
A TV movie which eventually emerged six years later, Project ALF, failed to clarify what had happened.
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