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The Worst Episodes of Alice

Every episode of Alice ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Alice!

Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the...
Genres:ComedyDrama
Network:CBS

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Great Escape" is the worst rated episode of "Alice". It scored 6.3/10 based on 58 votes. Directed by Marc Daniels and written by Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo, it aired on 3/15/1981. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Over-the-Hill Girls".

  • The Great Escape
    6.3/1058 votes
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    #1 - The Great Escape

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/15/1981

    A trucker chooses Mel's Diner as the place to tell her amorous driving partner to hit the road.

    Director: Marc Daniels

    Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo

  • The Over-the-Hill Girls
    6.3/1072 votes
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    #2 - The Over-the-Hill Girls

    Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1983

    Both Carrie and Alice are turned down as singers by a supper club owner who thinks they're too old for the job.

    Director: Tom Trbovich

    Writer: N/A

  • The Indian Taker
    6.4/1076 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • Love is a Free Throw
    6.4/1075 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Vera's Anniversary Blues
    6.5/1061 votes
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    #5 - Vera's Anniversary Blues

    Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 1/8/1985

    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

  • The Night They Raided Debbie's
    6.5/1053 votes
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    #6 - The Night They Raided Debbie's

    Season 9 Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/1985

    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

  • One on One
    6.5/1049 votes
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    #7 - One on One

    Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 3/5/1985

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo

  • Cook's Tour
    6.6/1054 votes
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    #8 - Cook's Tour

    Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/30/1980

    Mel is receptive to an infatuated tour guide, as long as she keeps steering tourists into his diner.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo

  • Vera Robs the Cradle
    6.7/1063 votes
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    #9 - Vera Robs the Cradle

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1979

    Just one dance lesson and Tommy falls head over heels for his instructor, Vera.

    Director: Marc Daniels

    Writer: N/A

  • Carrie's Wedding
    6.7/1070 votes
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    #10 - Carrie's Wedding

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1980

    Mel is delighted that his mother is planning to remarry until he meets his prospective stepfather.

    Director: Gary Shimokawa

    Writer: N/A

  • Alice Strikes Up the Band
    6.7/1053 votes
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    #11 - Alice Strikes Up the Band

    Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 3/29/1981

    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.

    Director: Marc Daniels

    Writer: N/A

  • Baby Makes Five
    6.7/1053 votes
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    #12 - Baby Makes Five

    Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/1981

    Vera refuses to give up the baby girl someone left in her pile of wash at the laundromat.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Tom Whedon

  • Houseful of Hunnicutts
    6.7/1052 votes
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    #13 - Houseful of Hunnicutts

    Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 11/18/1984

    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

  • The Pain of No Return
    6.8/1074 votes
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    #14 - The Pain of No Return

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1977

    Alice might be in trouble with Uncle Sam when she learns that her recently decease husband never paid his back taxes.

    Director: Alan Rafkin

    Writer: N/A

  • The Pharmacist
    6.8/1069 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Sweet Charity
    6.8/1064 votes
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    #16 - Sweet Charity

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1979

    Alice's date gets two extra tickets to a celebrity ball and everyone wants to go.

    Director: William Asher

    Writer: N/A

  • Alice's Son, the Drop-out
    6.8/1054 votes
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    #17 - Alice's Son, the Drop-out

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/1981

    Tommy is cutting classes to pursue a singing career and his first job is singing at a juice saloon.

    Director: Marc Daniels

    Writer: N/A

  • The Wild One
    6.8/1065 votes
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    #18 - The Wild One

    Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/27/1981

    Alice's spirit inspires a biker to recruit her as his ""old lady.""

    Director: Marc Daniels

    Writer: Michael Weinberger

  • Carrie on the Rebound
    6.8/1054 votes
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    #19 - Carrie on the Rebound

    Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 1/9/1983

    Carrie is slow to come out of a depression after a quickie divorce.

    Director: Marc Daniels

    Writer: Bob Bendetson

  • Tommy, the Jailbird
    6.8/1056 votes
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    #20 - Tommy, the Jailbird

    Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 3/21/1983

    Alice fears that freshman Tommy is abusing his new freedom away from home by majoring in extracurricular activities.

    Director: Mel Ferber

    Writer: Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman

  • Mel's Cousin Wendy?
    6.8/1058 votes
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    #21 - Mel's Cousin Wendy?

    Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 5/29/1983

    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.

    Director: John Pasquin

    Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo

  • Pilot
    6.9/10135 votes
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    #22 - Pilot

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/31/1976

    Alice gets her hopes up to be a big star when a talent agent comes to town.

    Director: Paul Bogart

    Writer: Robert Getchell

  • Mel's in Love
    6.9/1075 votes
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    #23 - Mel's in Love

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1977

    Mel falls in love with a young nature hiker from New Jersey.

    Director: Alan Rafkin

    Writer: N/A

  • 86 the Waitresses
    6.9/1077 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • My Fair Vera
    6.9/1057 votes
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    #25 - My Fair Vera

    Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/25/1979

    Acclaimed as ""brilliant"" in her role as Cinderella, Vera is asked to audition for a part in a supermarket commercial.

    Director: William Asher

    Writer: N/A