Season 9

November 4, 1984

Mel gets an F for buying a day school to raze for a parking lot.

November 18, 1984

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.

November 25, 1984

Alice is worried that Tommy's partying is leading to a serious drinking problem.

December 16, 1984

At Elliot's suggestion and lured by a $5000 reward, Mel goes undercover to smoke out rustlers selling stolen beef.

December 23, 1984

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.

January 8, 1985

Vera yearns for a romantic first wedding anniversary, but it gets off to anything but a romantic start and goes rapidly downhill from there.

January 15, 1985

Jolene's appearance on the ""Working Women"" talk show does nothing to boost business at Mel's Diner.

January 22, 1985

Vera's secretly moonlighting as a sultry deejay called Nightbird and she's turning on all the males in Phoenix in the process.

January 29, 1985

A country singer takes a personel as well as professional interest in Alice and begs her to join his band on the road.

February 5, 1985

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.

February 6, 1985

Answering a room-to-rent ad, Vera and Elliot's pushy landlady pushes herself and her kitschy furniture into their home and lives.

March 5, 1985

Mel is a taskmaster in training Jolene for tryouts with a pro basketball team.

March 12, 1985

After getting shot accidentally with his own gun, Elliot quits the force and looks for a career more suited to his meager talents.

March 19, 1985

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.