Alice
1976–1985
- IMDb
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- Production
Warner Bros. Television
Seasons
Season 1
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E1
Pilot
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E2
Alice Gets a Pass
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E3
A Piece of the Rock
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E4
Pay the Fifty Dollars
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E5
A Call to Arms
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E6
The Last Review
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E7
Sex Education
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E8
Big Daddy Dawson's Coming
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E9
Good Night, Sweet Vera
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E10
The Dilemma
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E11
Who Killed Bugs Bunny?
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E12
Mother-in-Law: Part 1
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E13
Mother-in-Law: Part 2
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E14
Vera's Mortician
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E15
Mel's in Love
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E16
The Accident
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E17
The Failure
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E18
The Hex
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E19
The Pain of No Return
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E20
The Odd Couple
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E21
A Night to Remember
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E22
Mel's Cup
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E23
The Bundle
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E24
Mel's Happy Burger
Season 2
- E1 The Second Time 'Round A suspected flasher and Flo's third ex-husband (Rod McCary) stir things up at Mel's Diner.
- E2 The Indian Taker A Native American who claims Mel's diner is built on sacred ground refuses to leave.
- E3 86 the Waitresses Mel incites his waitresses to quit by giving a new waiter better wages than theirs.
- E4 Alice by Moonlight Alice's moonlighting job as a nightclub singer is taking its toll on her waitress job.
- E5 Single Belles The girls accept an invitation to visit a new singles bar.
- E6 The Sixty Minutes Man Alice suspects that a diner regular is really an incognito mobster.
- E7 That Old Back Magic Mel can't be moved after his bad back flares up at Alice's place.
- E8 Love is Sweeping the Counter Endearments replace the insults in Flo and Mel's relationship after they attend an out-of-town game together.
- E9 A Semi-Merry Christmas Alice and friends are snowbound en route to her cousin's for Christmas.
- E10 Oh! George Burns When George Burns stops into Mel's, Vera believes that he's actually the Deity he played in the movie Oh, God!
- E11 The Eyes of Texas Flo's vanity keeps her from getting the eyeglasses she obviously needs.
- E12 Love is a Free Throw An amorous high-school basketball star starts putting the moves on Alice.
- E13 Close Encounters of the Worst Kind Hostility rages at Mel's after the workers decide to vent their petty grievances.
- E14 The Pharmacist A pharmacist protesting food additives threatens to take his life in Mel's Diner.
- E15 Love Me, Love My Horse Flo fixes up Alice with her bronco-busting brother (Burton Gilliam).
- E16 The Reporter An investigative reporter seeks refuge in Mel's Diner.
- E17 Florence of Arabia Flo is courted by a rich Arab (Richard Libertini) who, unknown to her, already has three wives.
- E18 The Cuban Connection Alice mediates a squabble between a womanizing photographer (Desi Arnaz)and his fed-up wife (Janis Paige).
- E19 Mel's Big Five-0 To Mel's disappointment, the girls take him at his word when he says he doesn't want a 50th-birthday party.
- E20 Don't Lock Now Mel wants to know who's stealing food and making long-distance phone calls from the diner.
- E21 The Star in the Storeroom Because she once baby-sat Jerry Reed, Flo is hounded for tickets to the singer's concert. Jerry plays himself.
- E22 The Bus Mel and the staff prepare for a bus load of hungry customers.
- E23 Mel's Recession Mel considers firing a waitress to save money.
- E24 Earthquake Everyone's rattled when a Native American predicts an earthquake.
Season 3
- E1 Take Him, He's Yours Alice takes Mel up on his boast that he can raise her son better than she.
- E2 Car Wars Mel sells the girls a car that won't start.
- E3 Citizen Mel Mel identifies a holdup man who has a record for assaulting a previous witness.
- E4 Vera's Popcorn Romance Vera meets a new boy friend at the movies, but refuses to bring him to the diner.
- E5 Block Those Kicks The diner personnel try to kick their bad habits.
- E6 What Happened to the Class of '78? Flo's night life interferes with her night-school studies.
- E7 Better Never Than Late While Mel is sleeping in the storeroom, Alice is robbed at gunpoint at the counter.
- E8 Mel's in a Family Way Mel mistakes Alice's intentions when she invites him for a family dinner.
- E9 Who Ordered the Hot Turkey? Mel unwittingly buys stolen turkeys for a Thanksgiving dinner he is having for orphans.
- E10 The Happy Hoofers Mel is unhappy because Alice's second job — delivering singing telegrams — makes her late for the diner.
- E11 A Slight Case of ESP Despite his skepticism, Mel tries to find a way to exploit Vera's knack for foretelling the future.
- E12 The Principal of the Thing Tommy wants Alice to stop dating his school principal (Gary Collins).
- E13 What're You Doing New Year's Eve? Flo finds herself without a date on New Year's Eve.
- E14 Sweet Charity Alice's date gets two extra tickets to a celebrity ball and everyone wants to go.
- E15 The Fourth Time Around Flo and Mel's brother (Carmine Caridi) decide to take a chance at marriage — even though it's the fourth time for each.
- E16 Tommy's First Love Alice is angry when Tommy conducts his first romance on her telephone.
- E17 Mel Grows Up Mel's pushy mother winters nearby, and Mel's not sure that he'll make it to spring.
- E18 Vera's Broken Heart Vera is heartbroken after her boyfriend tells her that he's marrying someone else.
- E19 Alice's Decision Alice's long-awaited break, a chance to fill a vacancy in a traveling trio will break her heart if she has to hit the road without Tommy.
- E20 The Last Stow It (1) Mel tells the girls to ""stow it"" for the last time, then sells the diner to a humorless martinet.
- E21 The Last Stow It (2) Unable to buy back his diner from the new restaurateur, Mel opens an eatery in Alice's apartment.
- E22 If the Shoe Fits Alice and Vera vie for a role in a production being cast by an attractive director(Fred McCarren).
- E23 My Fair Vera Acclaimed as ""brilliant"" in her role as Cinderella, Vera is asked to audition for a part in a supermarket commercial.
- E24 Flo Finds Her Father Alice tries to bridge the rift between Flo and her father, who is now sorry for deserting the family when she was a little girl.
Season 4
- E1 Has Anyone Here Seen Telly? Telly Savalas gives star-struck Vera a thrill when he stops by the diner while she's working there alone. When no one believes her story, she quits in a huff.
- E2 Mona Lisa Alice Alice's sour reaction to Tommy's matchmaking efforts threatens Mel's new promotional gimmick which is free meals to customers if his waitresses don't smile.
- E3 Mel Loves Marie Mel gives a big engagement ring to his girlfriend Marie, but the sparkle quickly fades when he insists that she sign a premarital agreement.
- E4 Vera Robs the Cradle Just one dance lesson and Tommy falls head over heels for his instructor, Vera.
- E5 Flo's Chili Reception Mel is convinced that his chief competitor is romancing Flo just to get the recipe for Mel's Texas-style chili, rated by a food critic as being ""the best in the West.""
- E6 Little Alice Bluenose Vera's boyfriend objects to her sketching nude males in art class.
- E7 Carrie Sharples Strikes Again The return of Mel's domineering mother does nothing for his ego because after his back goes out, the customers flock in, for his mother's cooking.
- E8 Mel's in the Kitchen With Dinah Things get hotter than Mel's chili when Dinah Shore invites Mel to prepare his recipe on her show and bring along one, but only one waitress.
- E9 Cabin Fever Mel, his girlfriend and the waitresses spend the weekend packed like sardines in a fishing cabin.
- E10 My Cousin, Art Carney Vera asks Art Carney, a sixth cousin on her father's side, to endorse Mel's chili, so it can be marketed frozen as Chili con Carney.
- E11 Mel, the Magi A yule tale (with a touch of O. Henry's ""The Gift of the Magi"") finds the girls pooling their meager resources to celebrate Christmas at the diner.
- E12 Good Buddy Flo Flo takes the wheel herself when she learns that her trucker beau has a female partner.
- E13 Alice in TV Land Tommy stirs up trouble by candidly discussing his elders on a TV talk show.
- E14 Alice Beats the Clock Mel installs a time clock which prompts the waitresses to demand overtime for the Sunday cleanup they used to do for nothing.
- E15 Carrie's Wedding Mel is delighted that his mother is planning to remarry until he meets his prospective stepfather.
- E16 My Funny Valentine Tux Tommy has his heart set on taking his girl to a formal Valentine's dance and he needs a tuxedo.
- E17 Auld Acquaintances Should Be Forgot Mel plays host to a buddy whose wife has just left him.
- E18 Flo's Farewell A wealthy Houston restaurateur offers Flo a job she finds hard to refuse.
- E19 For Whom the Belle Toils Mel hires Belle, a Mississippi belle who rings Mel's chimes as ""one of the best waitresses I've ever had."" However, Belle is now aiming for lusher pastures as a country-music writer.
- E20 One Too Many Girls The new waitress Belle is making big points with her old boss Mel, but she's scoring zero with Alice and Vera.
- E21 Vera, the Vamp Heartbroken over her boy friend's sudden lack of attention, Vera begs Belle to transform her into a sex goddess.
- E22 Profit Without Honor Mel signs a profit-sharing agreement with the girls just before learning he'll get a tidy sum for letting the city condemn his property.
- E23 Cook's Tour Mel is receptive to an infatuated tour guide, as long as she keeps steering tourists into his diner.
- E24 Here Comes Alice Cottontail Alice allows Tommy to stay with Mel, prompting a wager between Alice and Mel, she bets that he will kick Tommy out and Mel bets that Alice will snoop on her son.
Season 5
- E1 Mel and the Green Machine An automated bank teller accidentally spews out $24,675 to an astonished but delighted Mel.
- E2 Dog Day Evening After his safe is stolen, Mel rents the services of two very efficient guard dogs.
- E3 Vegas (1) Robert Goulet makes an appearance when Vera wins a free trip to Las Vegas and Alice, Mel and Belle tag along to try their luck.
- E4 Vegas (2) Mel may get his diner back if Belle can get Robert Goulet to perform for a Las Vegas casino owner but when it seems she can't get him, Alice steps in and impersonates him.
- E5 Vera's Aunt Agatha Vera's Aunt Agatha, a freewheeling sexagenarian, makes a pit stop in Phoenix while motorcycling to Mexico. This prompts Vera to make a life altering decision, whether or not to ride off into the sunset with her aunt.
- E6 Tommy's T.K.O. Against Alce's expressed wishes, Mel secretly teaches Tommy how to take care of a school bully.
- E7 The New Improved Mel The sparsely attended funeral of a buddy persuade Mel to become Mr. Nice Guy and ensure a decent turnout at his own burial.
- E8 Carrie Sings the Blues Mel's mother is singing the blues because her husband of six months has just left her.
- E9 Henry's Bitter Half Henry's convinced that his wife of 20 years is suddenly being nice because she's having an affair, so he tells her he's having one too, with Alice.
- E10 Alice Locks Belle Out As the new manager of her apartment building, Alice has the unenviable task of locking out a delinquent fellow tenant, Belle.
- E11 Vera Goes Out On a Limb Vera goes out on a limb to save a century old tree in front of the diner from being cut down for a road-widening project.
- E12 The Jerry Reed Fish Story The waitresses cut up a huge fish they find in the refrigerator, unaware that singer Jerry Reed had left it there until he could have it stuffed.
- E13 Bye Bye, Birdie Mel gets into a nose-to-beak yelling match with Vera's new pet parrot.
- E14 Alice's Son, the Drop-out Tommy is cutting classes to pursue a singing career and his first job is singing at a juice saloon.
- E15 Carrie Chickens Out During a visit, Carrie plans to help out at the diner and cook but a fed up Mel kicks her out and she goes to work for a competitor.
- E16 Macho, Macho Mel When, Mel recounts the story of the little old lady who mugged him, the old lady becomes four thugs.
- E17 The Great Escape A trucker chooses Mel's Diner as the place to tell her amorous driving partner to hit the road.
- E18 Alice Strikes Up the Band Alice thinks she has found her main chance when she lands a gig singing at a big banquet with a 1940's theme and an influential audience of restaurant owners.
- E19 Who's Kissing the Great Chef of Phoenix? Mel suddenly takes a romantic interest in Vera, who doesn't realize it's just a ploy to make his girlfriend, Marie, jealous.
- E20 Baby Makes Five Vera refuses to give up the baby girl someone left in her pile of wash at the laundromat.
Season 6
- E1 Bet a Million, Mel Mel borrows $10,000 against the diner to bet on a 90-to-1 nag.
- E2 Guinness on Tap Determined to leave her mark on the world, Vera sets out to break the tap dancing endurance record.
- E3 Comrade Mel A towel boy from the Russian ballet takes refuge in Mel's storeroom.
- E4 Alice's Halloween Surprise On Halloween, Alice's latest heartthrob asks her to shepherd his four kids for the evening.
- E5 Alice's Big Four-Oh! It's Alice's 40th birthday, and for the milestone she gets a millstone, a visit from her meddling mother.
- E6 Mel's Cousin, Wendell Smooth operator Mel teaches his shy cousin, Wendell, how to score with Vera.
- E7 Vera's Bouncing Check Against Mel's orders, Vera cashes a check for an old flame, who's nowhere to be found when it bounces.
- E8 After Mel's Gone Mel becomes despondent when he realizes he has no heirs.
- E9 Mel's Christmas Carol The ghost of a partner past gives Mel the dickens on Christmas Eve after Mel fired Alice, Jolene and Vera.
- E10 The Wild One Alice's spirit inspires a biker to recruit her as his ""old lady.""
- E11 Alice Calls the Shots Alice blows the whistle on Tommy's basketball playing when his grades start to slip.
- E12 Not with My Niece You Don't Mel gives Tommy advice on how to charm the ladies, which Tommy promptly applies to Mel's niece.
- E13 Queen of Soaps After getting hooked on soap operas, Vera becomes a washout at work and later quits.
- E14 Sharples vs. Sharples Mel has a beef with his mother who wants to publish his secret chili recipe in her new cookbook.
- E15 Valentine's Day Massacre Valentine's Day promises anything but hearts and flowers for the diner staff, who all quarrel with their dates.
- E16 The Best Little Waitress in the World A book on building self-confidence inspires Vera to become ""the best little waitress in the world!"" Later, Mel leaves a newly confident Vera in charge of the diner.
- E17 Alice and the Acorns Alice is visited by a high-school chum who's still suffering from her teenage inferiority complex.
- E18 Jolene Hunnicutt, Dynamite Trucker To help Jolene's exhausted good buddy, the girls drive his rig to a mining town, blissfully unaware that they're hauling dynamite.
- E19 Mel Wins By a Nose Mel considers getting a nose job while undergoing surgery for a deviated septum.
- E20 Give My Regrets to Broadway Alice's actress friend from New York persuades Tommy that he has a brilliant future on Broadway.
- E21 Vera's Reunion Romance Vera returns from her high-school reunion with stars in her eyes and a sparkler on her finger.
- E22 Monty Falls for Alice A jilted acquaintance flips for Alice on the first bounce and when she doesn't reciprocate his feelings he threatens to jump from the Mel's Diner sign.
- E23 Spell Mel's To counter a competitor whose contest is drawing customers, Mel launches one too and ups the ante to $3000.
- E24 My Mother the Landlord Mel happily envisions a rent-free future when his mother buys his apartment building but surprises him when she announces a $50 rent increase.
Season 7
- E1 Sorry, Wrong Lips Debbie Reynolds plays an actress whose torrid memoirs convince Mel he's the one she remembers as the greatest kisser in her life.
- E2 Do You Take . . . ? Mel tries to outdo an old buddy who shows up boasting a track record of fast living and sporting a blonde on his arm as proof.
- E3 The Secret of Mel's Diner There's gold in them there walls, or so Mel reckons after learning that the eccentric who built his diner left $20,000 stashed in another building.
- E4 Alice at the Palace Joel Grey offers his services gratis as the leading man in a musical revue bankrolled by Mel and featuring Alice. Mel, however, has never heard of Grey and gives the role to his bookie.
- E5 Joel Grey Saves the Day Joel Grey walks out after producer Mel turns a revue about New York into a desert musical with tunes like ""Two Tootsies from Tucson"" and ""Ramona from Arizona.""
- E6 Alice's Turkey of a Thanksgiving Alice's meddlesome mother knocks the stuffing out of her daughter's Thanksgiving dinner.
- E7 Carrie on the Rebound Carrie is slow to come out of a depression after a quickie divorce.
- E8 Jolene's Brother Jonas Jolene's brother pays a surprise visit, but the surprise is on him, he gets an icy reception from his sister.
- E9 Alice Sees the Light Everyone takes with a grain of salt Alice's claim that she saw a UFO.
- E10 Vera the Virtuoso Vera, whose cello playing can reduce a virtuoso to tears, is asked to play in a local string quartet.
- E11 Alice Faces the Music The waitresses pit their musical knowledge against that of three plumbers on a TV quiz show.
- E12 Tommy, the Jailbird Alice fears that freshman Tommy is abusing his new freedom away from home by majoring in extracurricular activities.
- E13 Jolene and the Night Watchman Jolene can't bring herself to bruise the tender feelings of a bruiser who saved her life and now considers her his girl.
- E14 Mel's Dream Car Mel is stripping his gears over his jazzy new Porsche he purchased for a measly $20.
- E15 Come Back Little Sharples Mel has had it up to his keister with the way things are going so he absconds to his apartment for a beer and pizza binge.
- E16 Vera, the Torch Vera wishes her landlady the worst for evicting her pets then feels responsible when the old crank's apartment catches on fire.
- E17 The Grass is Always Greener In role reversals, Mel becomes an employee by accepting an executive position with a catering firm, and the waitresses become owners by buying his diner.
- E18 Tommy Fouls Out Afraid that he's lost the ""right stuff,"" Tommy quits the basketball team.
- E19 Vera on the Lam After Mel decides to have the waitresses bonded, Vera owns up to a criminal past and takes it on the lam.
- E20 Mel's Cousin Wendy? To steal a competitor's secret sauce recipe, Mel persuades his cousin to pose as a woman and apply for a job as a Burger Baby.
- E21 Sweet Erasable Mel Mel's experiment with a computer goes well until Vera enters a transaction and erases every trace of Mel's financial existance.
- E22 Tommy Hyatt, Business Consultant Using Tommy's marketing advice, Mel increases his business but also learns he's heading for bankruptcy.
- E23 Jolene Lets the Cat Out of the Bag Jolene's hair is standing on end with a cat burglar prowling her neighborhood.
Season 8
- E1 Mel is Hogg-Tied Boss Hogg and Deputy Enos of ""The Dukes of Hazzard"" pay a surprise visit. Up to his usual low tricks, Boss makes an offer to lease the diner that Mel can't refuse but should.
- E2 Vera's Secret Lover A secret lover is sending Vera everything from poems to balloons.
- E3 Jolene Gets Her Wings Everyone's up in the air over Jolene's maiden flight as a part-time stewardess.
- E4 Alice's Blind Date Alice's dinner date with a high-school flame who's now blind turns into a delightful trip down sensory lane.
- E5 It Had to Be Mel A popular singer stops for directions at the diner and ends up proposing to Mel.
- E6 The Over-the-Hill Girls Both Carrie and Alice are turned down as singers by a supper club owner who thinks they're too old for the job.
- E7 Vera Gets Engaged Who would have thought Vera would find love in a greasy spoon? Especially with a cop who just ticketed her for jaywalking.
- E8 Vera's Wedding After a whirlwind courtship, Vera walks down the aisle with her intended.
- E9 The Robot Wore Pink After Alice quits in a huff, Mel replaces her with a very efficient and popular robot named Blanche.
- E10 'Tis the Season to Be Jealous Working undercover as Santa Claus, Vera's new husband spots her kissing her former fiance.
- E11 Tommy Goes Overboard
- E12 Vera, the Horse Thief No one can corral Vera after she discovers that a miniature horse is being mistreated by its trainer.
- E13 Jolene Throws a Curve Trophy winner Jolene throws Mel a curve when she won't pitch on his softball team.
- E14 Lies My Mother Told Me After 40 years, Mel learns that his mother lied when she told him his dog was a war hero.
- E15 Alice and the Devoted Dentist When Alice chips a tooth eating Mel's chili, he sends her to his dentist who takes one look at her X-rays and falls madly in love.
- E16 Alice's Hot Air Romance Alice gets a ride but hardly a rise out of a sexist ballonist whose hot air isn't confined to his balloon.
- E17 Dollars to Donuts After a winning first day at the track, Tommy bets he'll score in the betting business.
- E18 My Dinner with Debbie By proving she's a better cook than Mel, Vera's acerbic landlady may have found the elusive way to his heart through his stomach.
- E19 Vera's Fine Feathered Friends Vera takes a tumble trying to rescue a nest of baby blue jays from the diner sign before Mel gets to them with a broom.
- E20 Jolene is Stuck on Mel Jolene has second thoughts about marrying a TV game show host especially after a dab of permanent glue bonds her firmly to Mel.
- E21 Don't Play It Again, Elliot A gift piano comes between Vera and Elliot when she can't pry him away from it.
- E22 Mel Spins His Wheels Mel disdains accommodating the handicapped until two sprained ankles give him a different view, from a wheelchair.
- E23 Be It Ever So Crowded Vera and Elliot buy a charming old house that comes complete with fireplace, furniture and antiques one of which is a shocking surprise.
Season 9
- E1 Romancing Mister Stone Jolene and Vera play Cupid for a dateless Alice by putting an ad in a magazine's personals column.
- E2 Space Sharples Mel gets a little spaced out after he thwarts a bank robbery while he's dressed up as Captain Galaxy for Halloween.
- E3 Big, Bad Mel Mel gets an F for buying a day school to raze for a parking lot.
- E4 Houseful of Hunnicutts Jolene loves her family, but finds it too much of a good thing when her father, five brothers, grandmother and family dog park themselves in her one-bedroom apartment.
- E5 Tommy's Lost Weekend Alice is worried that Tommy's partying is leading to a serious drinking problem.
- E6 Undercover Mel At Elliot's suggestion and lured by a $5000 reward, Mel goes undercover to smoke out rustlers selling stolen beef.
- E7 Footloose Mel Mel 86es a group of ""hoodlums,"" unaware that they're the break dancers expected to perform at the diner as part of an arts festival.
- E8 Vera's Anniversary Blues Vera yearns for a romantic first wedding anniversary, but it gets off to anything but a romantic start and goes rapidly downhill from there.
- E9 Kiss the Grill Goodbye Jolene's appearance on the ""Working Women"" talk show does nothing to boost business at Mel's Diner.
- E10 Vera, the Nightbird Vera's secretly moonlighting as a sultry deejay called Nightbird and she's turning on all the males in Phoenix in the process.
- E11 Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore (1) A country singer takes a personel as well as professional interest in Alice and begs her to join his band on the road.
- E12 Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore (2) Whether Alice likes it or not, and she's not sure, country singer Travis Marsh gives her a chance to reach for the stars in a performance with him.
- E13 The Night They Raided Debbie's Answering a room-to-rent ad, Vera and Elliot's pushy landlady pushes herself and her kitschy furniture into their home and lives.
- E14 One on One Mel is a taskmaster in training Jolene for tryouts with a pro basketball team.
- E15 Vera's Grounded Gumshoe After getting shot accidentally with his own gun, Elliot quits the force and looks for a career more suited to his meager talents.
- E16 Th-th-th-that's All, Folks On the final day at the diner, Mel closes the blinds and gives away the cow creamers as the gang reminisces about the last nine years.
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