Beth Howland Filmography

Born:: May 28, 1941 in Boston, MA
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Elizabeth Howland

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Murder, She Wrote: Lone Witness

Synopsis: Having just wrapped up four seasons of Doogie Howser MD, Neil Patrick Harris appears in this episode as delivery boy Tommy Ramsen. Having been found kneeling at the body of a murdered woman, Tommy claims that he merely witnessed the crime--and that he himself was shot by the killer. The police Read More

1993
Reading Rainbow: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: Chain reactions are discussed in Reading Rainbow: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, as children learn about how one event can cause another, and how this can go on. The child in the featured story, written by Laura Joffe Numeroff, sets off a series of reactions when he hands a cookie to a mouse. Read More

1993
Alice: Season 09

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Celia Weston, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: It has taken nine seasons, but waitress Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin, widowed protagonist of the popular sitcom Alice, has finally landed a permanent boyfriend, one Nicholas Stone (Michael Durrell). And just in cast Alice had any doubts about her newest beau, Nicholas proves his mettle when he helps Read More

1984
Alice: Season 08

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Celia Weston, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: 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 Read More

1983
Alice: Season 07

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Celia Weston, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: Alice moved from its familiar Sunday night slot to a Wednesday night berth for its seventh season, then shifted to Mondays in February of 1983. Whatever the night, the series' fans faithfully flocked around the tube to watch the latest shenanigans at Mel's Diner, and the misadventures of Read More

1982
Alice: Season 06

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Celia Weston, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: Season Six of Alice finds most of the series' original cast still intact: Linda Lavin as waitress and wannabe singer Alice, Philip McKeon as her now 17-year-old son Tommy, Vic Tayback as her bombastic boss Mel, and Beth Howland as airheaded fellow waitress Vera. Missing from the scene is Diane Read More

1981
Alice: Season 05

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Diane Ladd, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: Though fewer new episodes of Alice were telecast during its fifth season due to a Hollywood writer's strike, the series still remained one of CBS's most popular attractions, ranking seventh in the overall Nielsen ratings. Much of its ongoing success can be attributed to the seamless ensemble work Read More

1980
Alice: Season 04

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: Halfway through Season Four of Alice, series regular Polly Holliday, in the role of brassy waitress Flo "Kiss Mah Grits" Castleberry, accepts an offer she can't refuse from a Houston businessman and leaves Mel's Diner in Phoenix to open up her own restaurant--thereby neatly segueing into her own Read More

1979
Alice: Season 03

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Polly Holliday, Beth Howland, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: Season Three of Alice introduces Victoria Carroll as Marie, the on-and-off girlfriend of Phoenix diner proprietor Mel Sharples (Vic Tayback). Also, Mel's Diner welcomes several new steady customers, among them Earl (Dave Madden), Chuck (Duane R. Campbell) and Brian (Alan Haufrect), who spend as Read More

1978
Alice: Season 02

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Polly Holliday, Beth Howland, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: Although widow and single mom Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin) still hopes to one day pursue a singing career, financial realities force her to retain her job as waitress at Mel's Diner in Phoenix, Arizona in Season Two of Alice. Likewise still on the premises are Alice's explosive boss Mel (Vic Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Pride of Walnut Grove

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Walnut Grove town council agrees to bankroll Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) when she has a chance to participate in statewide mathematics competition. Armed with confidence of her friends and neighbors, Mary, accompanied by her parents, heads to Minneapolis with the certainty that she will win Read More

1976
Alice: Season 01

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Polly Holliday, Beth Howland, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: The long-running CBS sitcom Alice launches its first season with the pilot episode, in which Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin), recently widowed when her trucker husband was killed in an accident, packs herself and her son Tommy (Philip McKeon) and heads westward, hoping to find success as a professional Read More

1976