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#1 - A Semi-Merry Christmas
Season 2 Episode 9
Aired 12/18/1977
Alice and friends are snowbound en route to her cousin's for Christmas.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Tom Whedon
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#2 - Close Encounters of the Worst Kind
Season 2 Episode 13
Aired 1/22/1978
Hostility rages at Mel's after the workers decide to vent their petty grievances.
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
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#3 - The Eyes of Texas
Season 2 Episode 11
Aired 1/8/1978
Flo's vanity keeps her from getting the eyeglasses she obviously needs.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: N/A
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#4 - That Old Back Magic
Season 2 Episode 7
Aired 12/4/1977
Mel can't be moved after his bad back flares up at Alice's place.
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
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#5 - The Cuban Connection
Season 2 Episode 18
Aired 2/26/1978
Alice mediates a squabble between a womanizing photographer (Desi Arnaz)and his fed-up wife (Janis Paige).
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
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#6 - The Sixty Minutes Man
Season 2 Episode 6
Aired 11/13/1977
Alice suspects that a diner regular is really an incognito mobster.
Director: Kim Friedman, George Tibbles
Writer: Tom Whedon, George Tibbles
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#7 - The Bus
Season 2 Episode 22
Aired 3/26/1978
Mel and the staff prepare for a bus load of hungry customers.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Erik Tarloff
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#8 - Oh! George Burns
Season 2 Episode 10
Aired 1/1/1978
When George Burns stops into Mel's, Vera believes that he's actually the Deity he played in the movie Oh, God!
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Seaman Jacobs
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#9 - Mel's Recession
Season 2 Episode 23
Aired 4/2/1978
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#10 - Mel's Big Five-0
Season 2 Episode 19
Aired 3/5/1978
To Mel's disappointment, the girls take him at his word when he says he doesn't want a 50th-birthday party.
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
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#11 - Love is Sweeping the Counter
Season 2 Episode 8
Aired 12/11/1977
Endearments replace the insults in Flo and Mel's relationship after they attend an out-of-town game together.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: N/A
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#12 - Don't Lock Now
Season 2 Episode 20
Aired 3/12/1978
Mel wants to know who's stealing food and making long-distance phone calls from the diner.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Tom Whedon
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#13 - Single Belles
Season 2 Episode 5
Aired 11/6/1977
The girls accept an invitation to visit a new singles bar.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#14 - The Reporter
Season 2 Episode 16
Aired 2/12/1978
An investigative reporter seeks refuge in Mel's Diner.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#15 - Earthquake
Season 2 Episode 24
Aired 4/9/1978
Everyone's rattled when a Native American predicts an earthquake.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Chris Hayward, Gary Markowitz
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#16 - Alice by Moonlight
Season 2 Episode 4
Aired 10/30/1977
Alice's moonlighting job as a nightclub singer is taking its toll on her waitress job.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: Tom Whedon
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#17 - Florence of Arabia
Season 2 Episode 17
Aired 2/19/1978
Flo is courted by a rich Arab (Richard Libertini) who, unknown to her, already has three wives.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: Tom Whedon
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#18 - The Star in the Storeroom
Season 2 Episode 21
Aired 3/19/1978
Because she once baby-sat Jerry Reed, Flo is hounded for tickets to the singer's concert. Jerry plays himself.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
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#19 - The Second Time 'Round
Season 2 Episode 1
Aired 10/2/1977
A suspected flasher and Flo's third ex-husband (Rod McCary) stir things up at Mel's Diner.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: Tom Whedon
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#20 - Love Me, Love My Horse
Season 2 Episode 15
Aired 2/5/1978
Flo fixes up Alice with her bronco-busting brother (Burton Gilliam).
Director: William Asher
Writer: Tom Whedon
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#21 - 86 the Waitresses
Season 2 Episode 3
Aired 10/23/1977
Mel incites his waitresses to quit by giving a new waiter better wages than theirs.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
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#22 - The Pharmacist
Season 2 Episode 14
Aired 1/29/1978
A pharmacist protesting food additives threatens to take his life in Mel's Diner.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Chris Hayward
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#23 - Love is a Free Throw
Season 2 Episode 12
Aired 1/15/1978
An amorous high-school basketball star starts putting the moves on Alice.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
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#24 - The Indian Taker
Season 2 Episode 2
Aired 10/9/1977
A Native American who claims Mel's diner is built on sacred ground refuses to leave.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Tom Whedon
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"A Semi-Merry Christmas" is the best rated episode of "Alice" season 2. It scored 8.2/10 based on 86 votes. Directed by Marc Daniels and written by Tom Whedon, it aired on 12/18/1977. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Close Encounters of the Worst Kind".