The BEST episodes of Alice season 7
Every episode of Alice season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Alice season 7!
After her husband, Donald, was killed in a truck accident, Alice Hyatt and her 12-year-old son, Tommy, moved out of their home in New Jersey and headed for Hollywood. Alice's dream was to become a singer but for the time being she got work as a waitress in a greasy spoon, Mel's Diner after her car breaks down in Phoenix. Mel was gruff and demanding and constantly bossing his three waitresses around.
#1 - Joel Grey Saves the Day
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1982
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.""
#2 - Alice Sees the Light
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/1983
Everyone takes with a grain of salt Alice's claim that she saw a UFO.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Jolene and the Night Watchman
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/28/1983
Jolene can't bring herself to bruise the tender feelings of a bruiser who saved her life and now considers her his girl.
#5 - The Grass is Always Greener
Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/1/1983
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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Tommy Hyatt, Business Consultant
Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/12/1983
Using Tommy's marketing advice, Mel increases his business but also learns he's heading for bankruptcy.
#8 - Alice at the Palace
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1982
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.
#9 - Tommy Fouls Out
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/15/1983
Afraid that he's lost the ""right stuff,"" Tommy quits the basketball team.
#10 - Come Back Little Sharples
Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/17/1983
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.
#11 - Sweet Erasable Mel
Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/5/1983
Mel's experiment with a computer goes well until Vera enters a transaction and erases every trace of Mel's financial existance.
#12 - Sorry, Wrong Lips
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/1982
Debbie Reynolds plays an actress whose torrid memoirs convince Mel he's the one she remembers as the greatest kisser in her life.
#13 - Alice's Turkey of a Thanksgiving
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1982
Alice's meddlesome mother knocks the stuffing out of her daughter's Thanksgiving dinner.
#14 - Do You Take This Waitress?
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1982
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.
#15 - The Secret of Mel's Diner
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1982
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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Jolene's Brother Jonas
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/16/1983
Jolene's brother pays a surprise visit, but the surprise is on him, he gets an icy reception from his sister.
#18 - Vera the Virtuoso
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/7/1983
Vera, whose cello playing can reduce a virtuoso to tears, is asked to play in a local string quartet.
#19 - Alice Faces the Music
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/14/1983
The waitresses pit their musical knowledge against that of three plumbers on a TV quiz show.
#20 - Mel's Dream Car
Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/11/1983
Mel is stripping his gears over his jazzy new Porsche he purchased for a measly $20.
#21 - Vera, the Torch
Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/24/1983
Vera wishes her landlady the worst for evicting her pets then feels responsible when the old crank's apartment catches on fire.
#22 - Vera on the Lam
Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/22/1983
After Mel decides to have the waitresses bonded, Vera owns up to a criminal past and takes it on the lam.
#23 - Jolene Lets the Cat Out of the Bag
Season 7 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/18/1983
Jolene's hair is standing on end with a cat burglar prowling her neighborhood.