Picks and Pans Review: Aliens in the Family

UPDATED 04/08/1996 at 01:00 AM EDT Originally published 04/08/1996 at 01:00 AM EDT

ABC (Fridays, 9 p.m. ET)

D+

As the nifty animated title sequence explains, a suburban widower falls in love with his alien abductor, a divorcée, and returns to Earth with her and her three kids (he has two himself). As for the show, its sarcastic sitcom brightness is grating, and the alien kids, designed by Jim Henson Productions, are unpleasant. They look like mackerel spawn in various stages of development.

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