It all builds to one of the most insane TV finales of all time, as Gordon is captured by the government and brought to a lab, with the implication that he will be dissected alive in the name of science. Most episodes play out as a cross between Perfect Strangers and Growing Pains, as ALF learns about various human customs and the family attempts to shield him from the public and the government officials hunting for him. A bizarre show in retrospect that featured a puppet as the titular character, ALF was about an alien named “Gordon Shumway” who crash-lands in the backyard of a suburban family and then proceeds to work his way into their hearts while waiting for his cohorts to stop by and pick him up, occasionally attempting to catch and eat the family cat along the way.
Somehow, like Full House, this series also featured a family named “The Tanners,” but that’s where the comparisons end. Stars: Paul Fusco, Max Wright, Anne Schedeen, Andrea Elson, Benji Gregory Fun trivia bit: It also starred Robert Englund, better known as Freddy Krueger, the same year he appeared in the first A Nightmare on Elm Street and became a horror icon.- Jim Vorel Louis called it “ Dynasty with lizard makeup and laser guns.” It was also plagued by cast issues-Michael Ironside straight-up walked out on the program during its first and only season. Expanded into a full series, however, the show was more like a sci-fi soap opera with lizard people: The Post Dispatch in St. The story of Earth being invaded by friendly-looking “Visitors” who actually turn out to be man-eating reptile people was pure 1950s sci-fi claptrap, simply updated with ’80s fashion, but unfolding over the course of a two-night miniseries, it was cheesy good fun. V in the 1980s is a great example of a concept that worked well as a miniseries but couldn’t support itself as a full-on TV show. Stars: Marc Singer, Faye Grant, Jane Badley, Michael Ironside, Robert Englund Let us know your favorite shows of the 1980s in the comments section below (besides, of course, Too Many Cooks). 31, 1989, so some great ’70s shows that lasted into the ’80s fell further down the list, while The Simpsons, which we named The Best TV Show of the 1990s, didn’t make the cut during the 1980s with only one Christmas special to its name. We were judging each series on its content between Jan. We’ve dug back into the crazy decade, to find the 80 Best TV Shows of the 1980s. We’re celebrating the best of ’80s TV all week here at Paste. Big hair, loud colors and very special episodes ruled the day, as TV dared to talk about issues that had always been taboo. Nostalgia for bygone eras gave me a connection to the ’50s with Happy Days and the ’60s with Wonder Years, but mostly shows captured the 1980s in all of its neon glory. It was a golden age for sitcoms and for big, silly action-adventures where the good guys always won-plenty to distract us from the last vestiges of the Cold War and a pair of nuclear arsenals that could do a decent imitation of the Death Star. This was the decade of the VCR, but you still didn’t make plans on Thursday nights. Meet my scumbag dad.To say that I was raised by 1980s TV is unfair to my wonderful parents, but I certainly spent as much time with the Keatons, the Huxtables, the Seavers, the 4077th and the Cheers gang as I did around my own kitchen table. Fast forward 3 years- brings woman from overseas and marries her in the courthouse without telling either of his children until 2 months afterwards. Then proceeds to torment mother for the next year, making her believe they might salvage the relationship.
Don’t hear from him for the next 4 months. Dad promptly walks out right after the bomb is dropped leaving kids and wife devastated. Tells mom a year later makes her wait a week to tell the kids so we’re left wondering why mom is crying all the time. “Dad had an affair while working over seas. He imploded after that and needed counseling for a few months after the divorce was finalized.” When he confronted her, her only reply was she was doing it for him. He assumed it was a gift for his birthday in 2 weeks and watched it when she wasn’t around. He found out when he found one of her DVDs hidden in the house. “I had a former coworker find out his wife was filming a lot of amateur porn being paid next to nothing after being married for a few years. Apparently the age thing isn’t as big a deal (legally) in their location as the incest thing, but the whole situation is all sorts of fucked up.”
“Someone I know is getting a divorce because her husband is having an affair with his 13 year old cousin. He’d walked in on his girlfriend and another man.”
He was super excited.Ĭame in the next day to return them. “A customer came in on Valentines day, bought a $50 teddy bear, roses, chocolates, the works.