Alice: Season 08 (1983)

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Season Eight of Alice offers the series' one-and-only crossover episode, "Mel is Hogg-Tied, in which Mel's Diner is visited by Sorrell Booke and Sonny Shrover in their familiar Dukes of Hazzard roles as Boss Hogg and Enos Strait. Also seen this season is former Brady Bunch matriarch Florence Henderson, playing a popular singer who inexplicably proposes to ill-tempered diner owner Mel (Vic Tayback). Otherwise, it is business as usual for waitresse Alice (Linda Lavin) and Jolene (Celia Weston), and for Alice's 19-year-old son Tommy (Philip McKeon). But it's a different story for Alice's ditzy waitress pal Vera (Beth Howland), who in the appropriately yclept episode "Vera Gets Engaged" meets the love of her life, policeman Eliot Novak (Charles Levin), when he gives her a ticket for jaywalking. One episode later, Vera and Eliot are married. Eleswhere, comedian Joey D'Auria, one year away from being hired as the star of the popular Chicago-based cable series Bozo's Circus, plays a cop in the episode "Lies My Mother Told Me". And the versatile stage and screen actor James Coco shows up in a subsequent episode as a dentist who falls in love with Alice--or, more specifically, with Alice's X-rays! One of the Season Eight episodes, "Vera's Secret Lover", was actually filmed for the seventh season, but held back in anticipation of a planned Hollywood writer's strike. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi