The Best Episodes of Alice Season 9

Jolene and Vera play Cupid for a dateless Alice by putting an ad in a magazine's personals column.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: N/A

Mel gets a little spaced out after he thwarts a bank robbery while he's dressed up as Captain Galaxy for Halloween.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Bob Bendetson

Mel gets an F for buying a day school to raze for a parking lot.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: Jack Carrerow, Lisa A. Bannick

Alice is worried that Tommy's partying is leading to a serious drinking problem.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Bob Bendetson

At Elliot's suggestion and lured by a $5000 reward, Mel goes undercover to smoke out rustlers selling stolen beef.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo

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.

Director: Lee Shallat Chemel

Writer: Bob Bendetson

Vera yearns for a romantic first wedding anniversary, but it gets off to anything but a romantic start and goes rapidly downhill from there.

Director: N/A

Writer: Jack Carrerow, Lisa A. Bannick

Jolene's appearance on the ""Working Women"" talk show does nothing to boost business at Mel's Diner.

Director: Nancy Walker

Writer: N/A

Vera's secretly moonlighting as a sultry deejay called Nightbird and she's turning on all the males in Phoenix in the process.

Director: N/A

Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo

A country singer takes a personel as well as professional interest in Alice and begs her to join his band on the road.

Director: N/A

Writer: Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: Bob Bendetson

Answering a room-to-rent ad, Vera and Elliot's pushy landlady pushes herself and her kitschy furniture into their home and lives.

Director: Nancy Walker

Writer: N/A

Mel is a taskmaster in training Jolene for tryouts with a pro basketball team.

Director: N/A

Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo

After getting shot accidentally with his own gun, Elliot quits the force and looks for a career more suited to his meager talents.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A