Controversy
When Lions Gate Home Entertainment released the first season of ALF on DVD in 2004, the DVDs contained the edited-for-syndication versions of the episodes. These ran almost 22 minutes, whereas the original NBC broadcasts were over 24 minutes without commercials. Lionsgate insisted that they used the syndication versions because the NBC versions were poorer in video quality, but two years earlier, the Video Service Corporation released a Canada only "The ALF Files" on DVD, with a single disc with 3 uncut episodes with no quality issues reported. Shortly after the release of the first season, tvshowsondvd.com posted a news item in response, and Lions Gate requested that they remove the news item so they could give a better explanation. However, the better explanation they promised never came. Even though hundreds of fans complained to Lions Gate about the edited episodes on the first season set, they ignored them and released all the remaining episodes edited as well. Additionally, some of the episodes on seasons two and three contained episodes that ran under 20 minutes.
Since then, Warner Home Video has released the first season of ALF in Germany and Japan in the uncut versions.
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