by Hal Erickson
synopsis
More paranoid than usual after his safe is stolen, Mel (Vic Tayback) rents a pair of ferocious guard dogs. The huge hounds know their job, and they do it well--the result being that Mel, Alice (Linda Lavin) and the rest of the staff is trapped in the diner by the snarling "sentinels." Warren Berlinger, cast as an amorous IRS agent in the first-season episode "The Pain of No Return", appears herein as dog owner Stanley.
