The BEST episodes written by Arthur Marx
#2 - Alias Captain Binghamton
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 31
The 73 gets a new crew member, who turns out to be a trouble-maker. McHale and the 73 crew cook up a wild plan to get rid of him, but, when their plan backfires, they find themselves in hot water again. So, they turn to their new Crewman, and use his special physical qualities to their advantage.
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Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 8
Uncle Bill enforces an iron-clad confiscation order of toys constantly being left on the floor by the kids and they can never get them back. It hits a little too close when Buffy's beloved Mrs. Beasley is in danger of being taken away from her.
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#4 - The Good Luck Ring
Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 4
Bobbie Jo conts on a "good luck" ring to help her win a spelling contest.
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Alice - Season 2 - Episode 7
Mel can't be moved after his bad back flares up at Alice's place.
#6 - Alice's Decision
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 19
Alice's long-awaited break, a chance to fill a vacancy in a traveling trio will break her heart if she has to hit the road without Tommy.
#7 - The Cuban Connection
Alice - Season 2 - Episode 17
Alice mediates a squabble between a womanizing photographer (Desi Arnaz)and his fed-up wife (Janis Paige).
#8 - Flo's Farewell
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 18
A wealthy Houston restaurateur offers Flo a job she finds hard to refuse.
#9 - Carrie Chickens Out
Alice - Season 5 - Episode 15
During a visit, Carrie plans to help out at the diner and cook but a fed up Mel kicks her out and she goes to work for a competitor.
#10 - Dear Robbie
My Three Sons - Season 4 - Episode 4
Robbie is chosen to write an 'advice to the lovelorn' column for the school newspaper, but Steve gets caught in the middle when a baffling love letter arrives. Robbie suggests that the writer should elope with her boyfriend and Steve tries to talk her out of it.
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#11 - Jolly Wally
McHale's Navy - Season 2 - Episode 8
Eager to have a well-known War Correspondent do a story on him, Binghamton makes Parker – Who is the Correspondent’s childhood friend – The Base PR Officer. But Parker’s ideas for good press turn out to be not so good.
#13 - The Happy Hoofers
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 10
Mel is unhappy because Alice's second job — delivering singing telegrams — makes her late for the diner.
#14 - The Fourth Time Around
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 15
Flo and Mel's brother (Carmine Caridi) decide to take a chance at marriage — even though it's the fourth time for each.
#15 - Tommy's First Love
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 16
Alice is angry when Tommy conducts his first romance on her telephone.
#16 - Jefferson vs. Jefferson
The Jeffersons - Season 2 - Episode 6
Things aren't going to well for George and Louise on their anniversary. First, Louise must contend with the unwelcome Mother Jefferson and then she must contend with George's odd anniversary gift, bicycles. She quickly learns his motive for buying them, to meet Mr. Whittendale.
#17 - Has Anyone Here Seen Telly?
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 1
Telly Savalas gives star-struck Vera a thrill when he stops by the diner while she's working there alone. When no one believes her story, she quits in a huff.
#18 - Bet a Million, Mel
Alice - Season 6 - Episode 1
Mel borrows $10,000 against the diner to bet on a 90-to-1 nag.
#19 - The Rage of Taratupa
McHale's Navy - Season 2 - Episode 30
While temporarily assigned to the 73 Crew, a lazy, pampered, rock and roll star is captured by a Japanese patrol while out on maneuvers with McHale and the crew, and holds a captive audience making it easy for McHale and the guys to take prisoners.
#20 - The Eyes of Texas
Alice - Season 2 - Episode 11
Flo's vanity keeps her from getting the eyeglasses she obviously needs.
#21 - Take Him, He's Yours
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 1
Alice takes Mel up on his boast that he can raise her son better than she.
#22 - Block Those Kicks
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 5
The diner personnel try to kick their bad habits.
#23 - Sweet Charity
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 14
Alice's date gets two extra tickets to a celebrity ball and everyone wants to go.
#24 - Vera Robs the Cradle
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 4
Just one dance lesson and Tommy falls head over heels for his instructor, Vera.
#25 - My Cousin, Art Carney
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 10
Vera asks Art Carney, a sixth cousin on her father's side, to endorse Mel's chili, so it can be marketed frozen as Chili con Carney.
#26 - Walter's Ethics
Maude - Season 4 - Episode 12
Maude finds Walter's business ethics extremely problematic.
#27 - Who's Kissing the Great Chef of Phoenix?
Alice - Season 5 - Episode 19
Mel suddenly takes a romantic interest in Vera, who doesn't realize it's just a ploy to make his girlfriend, Marie, jealous.
#28 - One Too Many Girls
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 20
The new waitress Belle is making big points with her old boss Mel, but she's scoring zero with Alice and Vera.
#29 - Here Comes Alice Cottontail
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 24
Alice allows Tommy to stay with Mel, prompting a wager between Alice and Mel, she bets that he will kick Tommy out and Mel bets that Alice will snoop on her son.
#31 - Carrie Sharples Strikes Again
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 7
The return of Mel's domineering mother does nothing for his ego because after his back goes out, the customers flock in, for his mother's cooking.
#32 - The Last Stow It (1)
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 20
Mel tells the girls to ""stow it"" for the last time, then sells the diner to a humorless martinet.
#33 - The Last Stow It (2)
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 21
Unable to buy back his diner from the new restaurateur, Mel opens an eatery in Alice's apartment.
#34 - My Fair Vera
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 23
Acclaimed as ""brilliant"" in her role as Cinderella, Vera is asked to audition for a part in a supermarket commercial.
#35 - Mel Loves Marie
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 3
Mel gives a big engagement ring to his girlfriend Marie, but the sparkle quickly fades when he insists that she sign a premarital agreement.
#36 - Alice in TV Land
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 13
Tommy stirs up trouble by candidly discussing his elders on a TV talk show.
#37 - The Jerry Reed Fish Story
Alice - Season 5 - Episode 12
The waitresses cut up a huge fish they find in the refrigerator, unaware that singer Jerry Reed had left it there until he could have it stuffed.
#38 - Robbie the Caddy
My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 29
At the suggestion of his best pal Hank, Robbie plans to earn some extra pocket-money by caddying at the local Golfing Tournament. He's assigned to the most temperemental golfer on the course. At the 18th hole Robbie accidentally kick's the ball out of the rough, immediately disqualifying his golfer from the competition.
#39 - Four for the Road
My Three Sons - Season 12 - Episode 5
Having no choice, Steve takes the triplets to work where a secretary offers to take them home until he is finished. However he accidentally loses her details and when she finally rings, she announces that the boys have run out the front door, much to Steve's annoyance.
#40 - Close Encounters of the Worst Kind
Alice - Season 2 - Episode 13
Hostility rages at Mel's after the workers decide to vent their petty grievances.
#41 - The Star in the Storeroom
Alice - Season 2 - Episode 20
Because she once baby-sat Jerry Reed, Flo is hounded for tickets to the singer's concert. Jerry plays himself.
#42 - Mel Grows Up
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 17
Mel's pushy mother winters nearby, and Mel's not sure that he'll make it to spring.
#43 - Vera's Broken Heart
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 18
Vera is heartbroken after her boyfriend tells her that he's marrying someone else.
#44 - Alice's Son, the Drop-out
Alice - Season 5 - Episode 14
Tommy is cutting classes to pursue a singing career and his first job is singing at a juice saloon.
#45 - Profit Without Honor
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 22
Mel signs a profit-sharing agreement with the girls just before learning he'll get a tidy sum for letting the city condemn his property.
#46 - Love is a Free Throw
Alice - Season 2 - Episode 12
An amorous high-school basketball star starts putting the moves on Alice.
#47 - Flo's Chili Reception
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 5
Mel is convinced that his chief competitor is romancing Flo just to get the recipe for Mel's Texas-style chili, rated by a food critic as being ""the best in the West.""
#48 - Auld Acquaintances Should Be Forgot
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 17
Mel plays host to a buddy whose wife has just left him.
#49 - Vera's Aunt Agatha
Alice - Season 5 - Episode 5
Vera's Aunt Agatha, a freewheeling sexagenarian, makes a pit stop in Phoenix while motorcycling to Mexico. This prompts Vera to make a life altering decision, whether or not to ride off into the sunset with her aunt.
#50 - Alice Locks Belle Out
Alice - Season 5 - Episode 10
As the new manager of her apartment building, Alice has the unenviable task of locking out a delinquent fellow tenant, Belle.