Ah, Christmas. It's a time for candy canes, fat jolly men dressed in red suits, and... little kids riddled with terminal diseases?! At least, that's the premise for this ho-hum holiday special courtesy of an 80s era AIDS-phobic mentality and ALF's need to consistently remind viewers that he's the kind-hearted Homer Simpson of space aliens.
Ever since I was a kid, there's been this love/hate relationship with ALF in which my memories of the show are always better than the actually quality of them. Granted, what kid wouldn't love an over-sized, smart mouthed space alien from the planet Melmac who likes to eat kittens and cause unwarranted havoc on the poor Tanner family? Honestly though, ALF was kind of a jerk.
. It was a series that aired on PBS in the early to mid 90's that presented mysteries in the form of story arcs. It was about a ghost who first makes contact with two Brooklyn kids by the name of Jamal and Lenni in order to protect them from danger. These kids will become known as the Ghostwriter Team and began as a group of four but later added three more members. The ghost can only communicate to the children through manipulating text and shaping his own sentences out of them. Members of the Ghostwriter team wore pens around their necks that they could use to write to Ghostwriter whenever they wanted. They would even use Ghostwriter to send out a message to the entire group at one time.
, which premiered back in 1992 and has been a ginormous success for publishing house Scholastic. With such a hit on their hands it made sense that the books would be a monster hit for Fox Kids network in the mid-late 1990s. However, when the original series ended in 1998, the magic that Stine created seemed to fade away with it. Luckily, the Hasbro/Discovery co-venture called 
