Alice - MOD Plans from Warner Archive for 'The Complete 6th Season' DVDs Available from online sellers in just two weeks, on December 5th!
Posted by David Lambert	11/22/2017
Alice's sixth season sees the staff settling in for a steady service of hopes, dreams, chili and grits-kissing. While Alice (Linda Lavin) ponders her life choices as she approaches forty, Vera (Beth Howland) attends her school reunion and ends up engaged, Jolene (Celia Weston) trades in her wages for fear as a dynamite trucker, Tommy (Philip McKeon) considers becoming an actor and Mel (Vic Tayback) thinks about getting a nose job. Among the celebrity diners stopping by Mel's for some chili are Donald O'Connor (as himself), Doris Roberts, George Wendt, Jay Leno and Kenneth Mars. This 3-Disc, 26-Episode Collection contains the entire sixth season as originally produced, including Do You Take This Waitress? and The Secret of Mel's Diner, which both originally aired during the series' seventh season, as well as the season five episodes Mel's Cousin, Wendell and Vera And The Bouncing Check, which aired in the sixth. The Warner Archive Collection has announced that in two weeks, on December 5th, they will release DVDs of Alice - The Complete 6th Season as an MOD (manufacture on demand) title. Priced at $34.99 for three discs, it brings us to the two-thirds mark in the sitcom's nine season run. Here's a pair of button links to this item at both Amazon.com and the studio's own WBshop.com online store. The Amazon entry isn't taking pre-orders yet, as of this writing, but WBshop is ready to let you lock in your copy!

Alice - 'The Complete 5th Season' Date Revealed: TOMORROW! MOD release of this 3-DVD set from the Warner Archive is happening this week
Posted by David Lambert	7/31/2017
Mel's Diner continues to function as a welcome waystation in the pursuit of dreams in Alice's fifth hit season. Ex-Mel gal Belle (Diane Ladd) continues to keep the service staff up to snuff in style and sass, while Alice continues to raise Tommy and chase her singing career...and Vera keeps on being, well, Vera. The baton gets passed mid-season, as Alice helps lady truck driver Jolene (Celia Weston) escape a bad business partner just in time for Jolene to replace Belle, who has hit the road with her brother's band. Among the celebrity diners visiting Mel's this season are Robert Goulet (as himself), Mildred Natwick, Martha Raye, Ruth Buzzi, and a returning Jerry Reed (as himself). This 3-disc, 22-episode collection contains the entire fifth season as originally produced, plus Mel's Cousin, Wendell and Vera and the Bouncing Check, which both originally aired during the series' sixth season. Two weeks ago we reported that Alice - The Complete 5th Season is on-the-way to DVD at last, courtesy of the Warner Archive Collection's MOD program. Now the studio has formally scheduled the title for release on August 1st...TOMORROW! It's priced at $34.99 SRP for a 3-disc set, and you can pre-order it right away via the WBshop.com button link seen below. Underneath that is the official cover art image. Our thanks to several of our readers, starting with "Larry," who emailed us about this over the weekend!

Alice - An Image Shows 'The Complete 5th Season' DVDs Are In-The-Works! The Warner Archive displays package art demonstrating that it's on the way
Posted by David Lambert	7/13/2017
Starting in 1976, CBS aired Alice, the show famous for "Mel's Diner" and waitress Flo's inevitable comeback, "kiss my grits!" Starring Linda Lavin as the title character, Vic Tayback as "Mel," Beth Howland as the dingbat waitress "Vera," and Philip McKeon as Alice's son, "Tommy," the sitcom lasted for 9 seasons. The TV show was based on a 1974 theatrical film, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorsese. In the movie, Ellen Burstyn played "Alice," Alfred Lutter played "Tommy" (he would play the same role in the TV show's pilot, but then was replaced by McKeon), Tayback played "Mel" (reprising the role throughout the entire run of the TV comedy), and Diane Ladd played "Flo." On television, Polly Holliday played "Flo" until the fourth season, before getting her character spun off into her own short-lived TV series. To replace her, the sitcom brought in Diane Ladd as a new character, "Belle," who stayed for the rest of the 4th season, and was in the 5th season until there were 4 episodes left. When Ladd departed, she was replaced with Celia Weston as "Jolene," who stayed through the rest of the show's run. In 2012 and 2013, the Warner Archive Collection released the first 4 seasons of Alice on DVD, as manufacture-on-demand (MOD) titles available online from sellers such as the studio's own WBshop.com, and Amazon's CreateSpace MOD program. Fans (myself included!) have eagerly awaited more season sets..and now they are in-the-works! Yesterday, the Warner Archive made posts on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter that showed the below box-art image of Alice - The Complete 5th Season, covered with a group photo of Alice, Mel, Belle, and Vera. There's no information...no date, no cost, not anything else. Just a caption that asks, "Chez wha?" But clearly this long-awaited title is on the way soon. Our thanks to regular reader Jackson Burnett for being the first (of several people!) to email us about this, and make sure we were aware of it. Stay tuned, of course, and we'll update you as further info becomes available!