ALF creator Paul Fusco delivered one last primetime special to NBC, 1989's The Wickedest Witch, which, when you think about it, was really more of a satire of Halloween cliches.
Rue McClanahan (The Golden Girls) has the title role as Avarissa, who was banished to a subterranean world 300 years earlier. The trolls that live there, the Greevils (Fusco puppets, with Fusco using his ALF voice for one of them), are more content playing Bingo and other games. Avarissa sends one of them to the surface to tempt a young human to perform an evil act to spring her from her prison.
Burgess Meredith narrates. There are commercials, with voiceovers by then-studio announcer Danny Dark, and Bill Wendell (Late Night With David Letterman) plugs shows for later in the week at the end of the broadcast.
This has never been rerun, or released on home video. I wonder why.
Rating: C-.
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