Whatever Happened to Alf?

Kelly Fields
3 min readOct 7, 2019

Direct from Melmac to your television Alf was prime time gold... for a while at least. Fame is, unfortunately, a fickle beast.

Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash

You might remember him by his given name, Gordon Shumway, or perhaps you recall Alf‘s penchant for cat meat, solid gold toilet, or maybe even his zeal to collect dryer lint.

But seriously…

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Kelly Fields

Kelly Fields is a reader, writer, cake decorator, and knitter living out her dreams one day at a time.