Episodes List
Ep.1 Romancing Mister Stone
Air Date: 1984-10-14
Jolene and Vera play Cupid for a dateless Alice by putting an ad in a magazine's personals column.
Ep.2 Space Sharples
Air Date: 1984-10-28
Mel gets a little spaced out after he thwarts a bank robbery while he's dressed up as Captain Galaxy for Halloween.
Ep.3 Big, Bad Mel
Air Date: 1984-11-04
Mel gets an F for buying a day school to raze for a parking lot.
Ep.4 Houseful of Hunnicutts
Air Date: 1984-11-18
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.
Ep.5 Tommy's Lost Weekend
Air Date: 1984-11-25
Alice is worried that Tommy's partying is leading to a serious drinking problem.
Ep.6 Undercover Mel
Air Date: 1984-12-16
At Elliot's suggestion and lured by a $5000 reward, Mel goes undercover to smoke out rustlers selling stolen beef.
Ep.7 Footloose Mel
Air Date: 1984-12-23
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.
Ep.8 Vera's Anniversary Blues
Air Date: 1985-01-08
Vera yearns for a romantic first wedding anniversary, but it gets off to anything but a romantic start and goes rapidly downhill from there.
Ep.9 Kiss the Grill Goodbye
Air Date: 1985-01-15
Jolene's appearance on the ""Working Women"" talk show does nothing to boost business at Mel's Diner.
Ep.10 Vera, the Nightbird
Air Date: 1985-01-22
Vera's secretly moonlighting as a sultry deejay called Nightbird and she's turning on all the males in Phoenix in the process.
Ep.11 Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore (1)
Air Date: 1985-01-29
A country singer takes a personel as well as professional interest in Alice and begs her to join his band on the road.
Ep.12 Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore (2)
Air Date: 1985-02-05
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.
Ep.13 The Night They Raided Debbie's
Air Date: 1985-02-06
Answering a room-to-rent ad, Vera and Elliot's pushy landlady pushes herself and her kitschy furniture into their home and lives.
Ep.14 One on One
Air Date: 1985-03-05
Mel is a taskmaster in training Jolene for tryouts with a pro basketball team.
Ep.15 Vera's Grounded Gumshoe
Air Date: 1985-03-12
After getting shot accidentally with his own gun, Elliot quits the force and looks for a career more suited to his meager talents.
Ep.16 Th-th-th-that's All, Folks
Air Date: 1985-03-19
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.
