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16 Episodes 1984 - 1985
Episode 1
Sun, Oct 14, 198430 mins
The girls place a personal ad to get Alice a date.
Episode 2
Sun, Oct 28, 198430 mins
Mel stops a bank robbery dressed as a superhero for Halloween.
Episode 3
Sun, Nov 4, 198430 mins
Mel wants to tear down a day school to build a parking lot.
Episode 4
Sun, Nov 18, 198430 mins
Jolene has family overload when seven of them take up residence in her one bedroom apartment.
Episode 5
Sun, Nov 25, 198430 mins
Tommy comes for a visit and Alice notices he's not looking so well and he's trying to keep her finding out he has unusual hair cut. He says he went to a party and got drunk and woke up with his hair cut that way. She tells him that he has a drinking problem but he says he doesn't. He asks her if he could borrow her credit card so he can rent a car to go on a date. Alice refuses. Tommy's not happy. Nicholas not knowing the whole story and wanting to make inroads with Alice offers Tommy his car. But he goes drinking again and loses his car.
Episode 6
Sun, Dec 16, 198430 mins
Mel has gone undercover to stop some beef rustlers and collect the reward.
Episode 7
Sun, Dec 23, 198430 mins
Mel throws out a bunch of break dancers whom he thinks are nothing but a gang of hoodlums.
Episode 8
Tue, Jan 8, 198530 mins
Vera and Elliot celebrate their anniversary by reenacting their first meeting which was Elliot arresting Vera for jaywalking. When Vera sees a cop across the street thinking it's Elliot, goes out to meet but discovers it's not Elliot and the cop cites her. Later when she sees whom she thinks is Elliot, she goes out again only to be arrested by the same cop again. And when she tries to reason with him and when she thinks she got to him she rips up the citation. He then arrests Vera. Elliot goes to see her at the station and apologizes. But when he can't remember their song things go bad again.
Episode 9
Tue, Jan 15, 198530 mins
A television appearance by Jolene doesn't help business at Mel's Diner.
Episode 10
Tue, Jan 22, 198530 mins
In her second job as a night DJ, Vera is taking Phoenix by storm.
Episode 11
Tue, Jan 29, 198530 mins
Alice gets an offer to sing with a country music group.
Episode 12
Tue, Feb 5, 198530 mins
Alice gets an offer to sing with a country music group.
Episode 13
Wed, Feb 6, 198530 mins
Vera's landlady tries to horn in on her and Elliot's lives.
Episode 14
Tue, Mar 5, 198530 mins
Jolene has Mel as a trainer to get on a professional basketball team.
Episode 15
Tue, Mar 12, 198530 mins
When something happens to Elliot at work, he resigns. He then tries to find another job. But he fails to find one, he decides to be a homemaker but he ends up wrecking their home. So Vera and the others decide to try to get him to go back to the force by staging a robbery at the diner. But when a robber comes in he thinks it's a set up till he sees it's not.
Episode 16
Tue, Mar 19, 198530 mins
Mel informs the girls that he sold the diner. And it turns out that Alice and Jolene were going to quit because Alice decided to join a band and Jolene's going to open her own beauty shop. Vera learns she's pregnant. The buyer tells Mel that he has to vacate sooner than he was told. So he, the girls, Tommy and Earl, on the last night, reminisce about everything that happened over the years.