Coinciding with season 2 of ALF on Mondays, NBC added a Saturday morning prequel featuring the Melmacian wise guy born Gordon Shumway (voice of Paul Fusco).
ALF: The Animated Series ran for three seasons, as it ended when the Monday show ended. Fusco bookends each episode with the live-action Gordon introducing each episode as a chapter in his memoir, and closing the same way. In the cartoon, Gordon is a teenager hanging with his buds, Skip, Rick, & Rhonda, the latter Gordon's girlfriend. Skip & Rhonda, as adults, would later show up on the Monday show.
In "Gordon Ships Out", chaos ensues when the boys decide to co-hab on a houseboat......
DIC was actually programming against itself, as memory serves, since this ALF aired opposite The Real Ghostbusters on ABC. We'll look at ALF Tales, which bowed in 1988, and lasted a year, another day.
Rating: B.
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