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Alf Thompson is the main owner and farmer residing in Thompson Ground.

Biography

Alf is 52 years of age and is married to Dorothy Thompson, who is 49. He has an only child, Bill Thompson, who aims to succeed his father when he gets older.

He manages the Thompson Ground farm with his wife and son, with the farm itself being passed down to him from his ancestors.

Personality

He is small, tough, and sturdy as a fell farmer needs to be. He follows his sheep all over the fells. While working through numerous weather seasons, the weather has muddied his face and knotted his joints. He has a dry humour.

Job

Alf, along with his wife Dorothy, are the farmers and owners of Thompson Ground. He mostly farms sheep, chickens and cattle.

Attire

He is shown wearing a sweater and a large coat. In the first and second series, he is shown wearing a bowler hat. From the third series onwards, he still wears the same outfit, but now wears a bucket hat instead of the bowler hat.

Vehicles

  • The Yellow Tractor (Series 1 and 2)
  • The Red Tractor
  • The Plough
  • Quad Bike

Appearances

Main Series

Specials

He also appeared in Postman Pat: The Movie.


Trivia

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Alf's puppet retooled into a burglar

  • Alf's model wearing Ted Glen's cap was used as one of "The Burglars" in the aforementioned episode of "Bertha". The other burglar was depicted with Ted wearing George Lancaster's hat and Alf's green coat. Alf also made a cameo in the "Gran" episode "Snow Gran" wearing George Lancaster's hat.
  • In the "Gran" episode "Gran the Camper", a character called "The Master" was wearing Alf's clothes.
  • In the book versions of stories from Series 1, Alf Thompson drove a blue tractor with an enclosed cab.
  • Alf was the first person to receive a special delivery package, in his case his highland cow, Daisy.
  • Alf is one of the few characters with moustaches without a visible mouth on his models, the others being Ted Glen, P.C. Selby and Major Forbes. In the Cosgrove Hall and Mackinnon and Saunders eras of the series, whenever moustachioed characters like Ted had to speak, the animators would have to move Alf's moustache from side to side.
  • In the earlier series, his voice sounded more gruff. His voice in subsequent series after that now closely sounds similar to that of Peter Fogg's.

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