ALF's name is Gordon Shumway, and he's from the planet Melmac. Producer 'Paul Fusco' was the voice of ALF. 'Michael Eisner' , head of The Walt Disney Company, made an unsuccessful bid to buy the series outright before Lorimar made a syndication deal with Alien Productions. The final episode ("Consider Me Gone") was, indeed, intended as a cliffhanger. At the time it was filmed, NBC was still up in the air over whether the show would be cancelled. The cliffhanger format was inte ...[Read Story ]