# Alice season 5

This is a list of episodes from the fifth season of Alice.

## Episodes

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
| 97 | 1 | "Mel and the Green Machine" | Lee Lochhead | Linda Morris & Vic Rauseo | November 2, 1980 (1980-11-02) | 167201 |
| Alice becomes Mel's conscience when he accidentally receives thousands of dollars from an automatic teller. |||||||
| 98 | 2 | "Dog Day Evening" | Marc Daniels | George Arthur Bloom | November 9, 1980 (1980-11-09) | 167202 |
| The staff is trapped in the diner with two guard dogs. |||||||
| 99 | 3 | "Hello Vegas, Goodbye Diner" | Marc Daniels | Mark Egan & Mark Solomon (part 1) | November 16, 1980 (1980-11-16) | 167203–167204 |
| 100 | 4 | "Hello Vegas, Goodbye Diner" | Marc Daniels | Linda Morris & Vic Rauseo (part 2) | November 16, 1980 (1980-11-16) | 167203–167204 |
| Mel announces to the waitresses that he has gambled away the diner. Mel can get his diner back if he can convince Robert Goulet to perform at a run-down Vegas motel. |||||||
| 101 | 5 | "Vera's Aunt Agatha" | Marc Daniels | Bob Fisher & Arthur Marx | November 23, 1980 (1980-11-23) | 167205 |
| Mel ruins Vera's plans to take off for Mexico with her free-spirited aunt. |||||||
| 102 | 6 | "Tommy's TKO" | Marc Daniels | Linda Morris & Vic Rauseo | November 30, 1980 (1980-11-30) | 167206 |
| Tommy is dismissed from school after Mel shows him how to fight. |||||||
| 103 | 7 | "The New Improved Mel" | Marc Daniels | Mark Egan & Mark Solomon | December 7, 1980 (1980-12-07) | 167207 |
| Mel turns over a new leaf after attending an old Navy buddy's funeral. |||||||
| 104 | 8 | "Carrie Sings the Blues" | Christine Ballard & Linda Lavin | Mark Egan & Mark Solomon | December 21, 1980 (1980-12-21) | 167208 |
| Carrie's marriage is almost destroyed because of Mel's selfishness. |||||||
| 105 | 9 | "Henry's Bitter Half" | Lee Lochhead | Mark Egan & Mark Solomon | January 4, 1981 (1981-01-04) | 167209 |
| Henry's wife Chloe (special guest star Ruth Buzzi) has been extra nice to him making him think she is having an affair, so to get back at her he claims he is having an affair with Alice. |||||||
| 106 | 10 | "Alice Locks Belle Out" | Nick Havinga | Bob Fisher & Arthur Marx | January 11, 1981 (1981-01-11) | 167210 |
| Belle finds herself out on the doorstep until Alice's "Sam Butler" saves the day. |||||||
| 107 | 11 | "Vera Goes Out on a Limb" | Marc Daniels | Linda Morris & Vic Rauseo | January 18, 1981 (1981-01-18) | 167211 |
| Vera chains herself to the limb of a tree to keep it from being chopped down. |||||||
| 108 | 12 | "The Jerry Reed Fish Story" | Marc Daniels | Bob Fisher & Arthur Marx | February 1, 1981 (1981-02-01) | 167214 |
| Returning from a fishing trip with Charlie and Jerry Reed (in a return guest appearance), Mel's chance to meet Dolly Parton is almost ruined by a fish which was caught by Jerry, that the waitresses found in the refrigerator, and then cut up, not aware of whose it is. |||||||
| 109 | 13 | "Bye Bye, Birdie" | Marc Daniels | George Arthur Bloom | February 8, 1981 (1981-02-08) | 167213 |
| Vera is finally able to pay for her pet parrot, Birdie. When Birdie imitates everything Mel says, Mel yells and the parrot dies. |||||||
| 110 | 14 | "Alice's Son, the Drop-Out" | Marc Daniels | Bob Fisher & Arthur Marx | February 15, 1981 (1981-02-15) | 167212 |
| Exhausted from working a night job, Tommy misses his first college class. |||||||
| 111 | 15 | "Carrie Chickens Out" | Marc Daniels | Bob Fisher & Arthur Marx | February 22, 1981 (1981-02-22) | 167215 |
| Mel comes to work one day and is surprised to find his mother Carrie has come to town for another visit. She quickly takes over the diner and starts running the kitchen herself. |||||||
| 112 | 16 | "Macho, Macho Mel" | Marc Daniels | Mark Egan & Mark Solomon | March 8, 1981 (1981-03-08) | 167216 |
| While taking out the garbage, Mel has an encounter with a little old lady who catches him by surprise when she mugs him. However, when Mel recounts the story, she suddenly becomes four thugs. Mel quickly eats his words when the she is captured. |||||||
| 113 | 17 | "The Great Escape" | Marc Daniels | Vic Rauseo & Linda Morris and Mark Egan & Mark Solomon | March 15, 1981 (1981-03-15) | 167217 |
| A cross-country trucker's former partner (Celia Weston) gets a waitressing job at the diner. Diane Ladd's last episode. |||||||
| 114 | 18 | "Alice Strikes Up the Band" | Marc Daniels | Mark Egan & Mark Solomon | March 29, 1981 (1981-03-29) | 167218 |
| Alice's success as a substitute singer with a band forces her into a tough decision. |||||||
| 115 | 19 | "Who's Kissing the Great Chef of Phoenix?" | Marc Daniels | Bob Fisher & Arthur Marx | April 5, 1981 (1981-04-05) | 167219 |
| Mel kisses Vera, Vera takes the kiss seriously, not realizing it was just a ploy to make his girlfriend Marie jealous. |||||||
| 116 | 20 | "Baby Makes Five" | Christine Ballard & Linda Lavin | Charles Isaacs & Tom Whedon | May 3, 1981 (1981-05-03) | 167220 |
| Vera finds an abandoned baby and soon becomes attached, refusing to give up the baby girl. She looks into adopting her. |||||||

## Broadcast history

The season originally aired Sundays at 9:00-9:30 pm (EST).