 The final episode ("Consider Me Gone") was, indeed, intended as a  cliffhanger. At the time it was filmed, NBC was still up in the air  over whether the show would be cancelled. The cliffhanger format was  intended to help persuade NBC to give the show one more chance, if  only to resolve the "To Be Continued" ending. Six years later, the  TV movie _Project: ALF (1996) (TV)_ (qv) finally brought  closure