Also, who are they going to play softball against, if they're the only members of their species on our planet, and they can't reveal themselves to humans?

I'm convinced Spacecats was a make-good for cancelling ALF "early."

I'm not sure what NBC was going for in 1991-92. I'm sure the shows that weren't cheap filler (Chip & Pepper, Saturday Morning Videos, NBA Inside Stuff) sounded good to executives - a new show from the creator of a Top 10 Nielsen hit, a Macaulay Culkin show at the time he was still marketable, three major sports stars fighting evil, and contemporary versions of evergreen Hanna-Barbera characters.

The results were this, Wish Kid, ProStars, and Yo Yogi! I know NBC had this hard-on for a weekend version of Today, but if that network really wanted to throw in the towel, deliberately bad shows would have been preferable to what it actually put out.

I recall an interview with one of the head scriptwriters for ALF on NPR's Fresh Air. He was a HUGE drug abuser (coke and/or heroin, I think), and he HATED his job writing for this puppet thing. He took drugs to cope, and was sure they'd fire him for writing crap, but to his dismay, the "worse" he thought he was writing, the more the suits loved it.

I believe you're talking about Jerry "Permanent Midnight" Stahl, who also wrote for Twin Peaks and cocreated the legendary early 80s high concept porn movie Night Dreams:

www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=31784

I'm not sure but I suspect thatt's him with the saxophone.

Jerry Stahl also wrote the 80s "Dr. Caligari", which was an early POETV favorite and I believe is on Youtube in full.

After reading about the insanity of Paul Fusco, I could imagine how he demanded for the cats to be treated as real living things.

Indeed, this seems like a joke, like something made up to mock how very few ideas Fusco and Co.

I believe this was concurrent with "Dog City", which was a Henson production.