BEN BAKER on that fateful night ALF turned up on the UK TV schedules.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 23rd 2024.

I’ve been trying to get BEN BAKER back onto VISION ON SOUND for quite some time now, but various obstacles kept on getting in our way, which meant that our long-planned look at SPITTING IMAGE had to remain in the shadows as its anniversary sped by in a sea of cough linctus, paracetamol, and Lem-sip.

Never mind, we’ll probably get round to it one day.

In the meanwhile, as he recuperated, for another project he’s been working on, BEN had been researching the 1980s US science-fiction sitcom ALF.

ALF was a series which was all about the adventures of the moggy-munching Alien Life Form who chose to live with the Tanner Family in the San Fernando Valley area of California, and BEN suggested that we might be able to have a chat about the TV schedules for the very night ALF first appeared on UK television screens on April the 25th 1987, and that sounded like a pretty good idea to me, and so he sent me a copy of that night’s TV listings which might even pop up on the social media feeds, for you to read along with at home, if I remember to post it.

So, over the course of this hour, as well as discussing ALF, we also consider other US imported TV of the era, and the bizarre nature of the Saturday evening schedules of the late 1980s.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.