Alice: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Alice Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
The Second Time 'Round
Oct 2, 1977
A suspected flasher and Flo's third ex-husband (Rod McCary) stir things up at Mel's Diner.
The Indian Taker
Oct 9, 1977
A Native American who claims Mel's diner is built on sacred ground refuses to leave.
86 the Waitresses
Oct 23, 1977
Mel incites his waitresses to quit by giving a new waiter better wages than theirs.
Alice by Moonlight
Oct 30, 1977
Alice's moonlighting job as a nightclub singer is taking its toll on her waitress job.
The Sixty Minutes Man
Nov 13, 1977
Alice suspects that a diner regular is really an incognito mobster.
That Old Back Magic
Dec 4, 1977
Mel can't be moved after his bad back flares up at Alice's place.
Love is Sweeping the Counter
Dec 11, 1977
Endearments replace the insults in Flo and Mel's relationship after they attend an out-of-town game together.
A Semi-Merry Christmas
Dec 18, 1977
Alice and friends are snowbound en route to her cousin's for Christmas.
Oh! George Burns
Jan 1, 1978
When George Burns stops into Mel's, Vera believes that he's actually the Deity he played in the movie Oh, God!
The Eyes of Texas
Jan 8, 1978
Flo's vanity keeps her from getting the eyeglasses she obviously needs.
Love is a Free Throw
Jan 15, 1978
An amorous high-school basketball star starts putting the moves on Alice.
Close Encounters of the Worst Kind
Jan 22, 1978
Hostility rages at Mel's after the workers decide to vent their petty grievances.
The Pharmacist
Jan 29, 1978
A pharmacist protesting food additives threatens to take his life in Mel's Diner.
Love Me, Love My Horse
Feb 5, 1978
Flo fixes up Alice with her bronco-busting brother (Burton Gilliam).
Florence of Arabia
Feb 19, 1978
Flo is courted by a rich Arab (Richard Libertini) who, unknown to her, already has three wives.
The Cuban Connection
Feb 26, 1978
Alice mediates a squabble between a womanizing photographer (Desi Arnaz)and his fed-up wife (Janis Paige).
Mel's Big Five-0
Mar 5, 1978
To Mel's disappointment, the girls take him at his word when he says he doesn't want a 50th-birthday party.
Don't Lock Now
Mar 12, 1978
Mel wants to know who's stealing food and making long-distance phone calls from the diner.
The Star in the Storeroom
Mar 19, 1978
Because she once baby-sat Jerry Reed, Flo is hounded for tickets to the singer's concert. Jerry plays himself.
Earthquake
Apr 9, 1978
Everyone's rattled when a Native American predicts an earthquake.