Alice: Season 9
Season 9 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Alice Season 8.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 9 Progress Shield
Romancing Mister Stone
Oct 14, 1984 · 30 min
Jolene and Vera play Cupid for a dateless Alice by putting an ad in a magazine's personals column.
Space Sharples
Oct 28, 1984 · 30 min
Mel gets a little spaced out after he thwarts a bank robbery while he's dressed up as Captain Galaxy for Halloween.
Big, Bad Mel
Nov 4, 1984 · 30 min
Mel gets an F for buying a day school to raze for a parking lot.
Houseful of Hunnicutts
Nov 18, 1984 · 30 min
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.
Tommy's Lost Weekend
Nov 25, 1984 · 30 min
Alice is worried that Tommy's partying is leading to a serious drinking problem.
Undercover Mel
Dec 16, 1984 · 30 min
At Elliot's suggestion and lured by a $5000 reward, Mel goes undercover to smoke out rustlers selling stolen beef.
Footloose Mel
Dec 23, 1984 · 30 min
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.
Vera's Anniversary Blues
Jan 8, 1985 · 30 min
Vera yearns for a romantic first wedding anniversary, but it gets off to anything but a romantic start and goes rapidly downhill from there.
Kiss the Grill Goodbye
Jan 15, 1985 · 30 min
Jolene's appearance on the ""Working Women"" talk show does nothing to boost business at Mel's Diner.
Vera, the Nightbird
Jan 22, 1985 · 30 min
Vera's secretly moonlighting as a sultry deejay called Nightbird and she's turning on all the males in Phoenix in the process.
Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore (1)
Jan 29, 1985 · 30 min
A country singer takes a personel as well as professional interest in Alice and begs her to join his band on the road.
Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore (2)
Feb 5, 1985 · 30 min
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.
The Night They Raided Debbie's
Feb 6, 1985 · 30 min
Answering a room-to-rent ad, Vera and Elliot's pushy landlady pushes herself and her kitschy furniture into their home and lives.
One on One
Mar 5, 1985 · 30 min
Mel is a taskmaster in training Jolene for tryouts with a pro basketball team.
Vera's Grounded Gumshoe
Mar 12, 1985 · 30 min
After getting shot accidentally with his own gun, Elliot quits the force and looks for a career more suited to his meager talents.
Th-th-th-that's All, Folks
Mar 19, 1985 · 30 min
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.