Holliday left "Alice" in 1980 to anchor a spinoff series, "Flo", but it only lasted a season. A later sitcom, "Stir Crazy" (1986), quickly fizzled, but Holliday enjoyed about a season as a dignified, tough-as-nails Army officer in "Private Benjamin" (1982-83) when Eileen Brennan's character left the show after the actress was injured. Adept at both warm small-town types and icy, prim professionals, the versatile Holliday has acted in TV-movies including "The Shady Hill Kidnapping" (1982), "A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story" (1991) and a live TV presentation of "All the Way Home" (1981). She has also made a handful of feature appearances, including small roles in "All the President's Men" (1976) and "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993) and a striking, highly enjoyable turn as the evil Mrs. Deagle in "Gremlins" (1984). Holliday's stage work, meanwhile, has included New York revivals of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1990), for which she received a Tony nomination for her Big Mama, and "Picnic" (1994). She returned to series TV as JoBeth Williams' mother in "John Grisham's 'The Client'" (CBS, 1995-96).