Alice Episode Rating Graph

Answering a room-to-rent ad, Vera and Elliot's pushy landlady pushes herself and her kitschy furniture into their home and lives.

Whether Alice likes it or not, and she's not sure, country singer Travis Marsh gives her a chance to reach for the stars in a performance with him.

A country singer takes a personel as well as professional interest in Alice and begs her to join his band on the road.

Vera's secretly moonlighting as a sultry deejay called Nightbird and she's turning on all the males in Phoenix in the process.

Jolene's appearance on the ""Working Women"" talk show does nothing to boost business at Mel's Diner.

Vera yearns for a romantic first wedding anniversary, but it gets off to anything but a romantic start and goes rapidly downhill from there.

Mel 86es a group of ""hoodlums,"" unaware that they're the break dancers expected to perform at the diner as part of an arts festival.

At Elliot's suggestion and lured by a $5000 reward, Mel goes undercover to smoke out rustlers selling stolen beef.

Alice is worried that Tommy's partying is leading to a serious drinking problem.

Jolene loves her family, but finds it too much of a good thing when her father, five brothers, grandmother and family dog park themselves in her one-bedroom apartment.

Vera and Elliot buy a charming old house that comes complete with fireplace, furniture and antiques one of which is a shocking surprise.

Mel disdains accommodating the handicapped until two sprained ankles give him a different view, from a wheelchair.

Jolene has second thoughts about marrying a TV game show host especially after a dab of permanent glue bonds her firmly to Mel.

Vera takes a tumble trying to rescue a nest of baby blue jays from the diner sign before Mel gets to them with a broom.

After a winning first day at the track, Tommy bets he'll score in the betting business.

Trophy winner Jolene throws Mel a curve when she won't pitch on his softball team.

Working undercover as Santa Claus, Vera's new husband spots her kissing her former fiance.

After a whirlwind courtship, Vera walks down the aisle with her intended.

Who would have thought Vera would find love in a greasy spoon? Especially with a cop who just ticketed her for jaywalking.

Alice's dinner date with a high-school flame who's now blind turns into a delightful trip down sensory lane.

Using Tommy's marketing advice, Mel increases his business but also learns he's heading for bankruptcy.

To steal a competitor's secret sauce recipe, Mel persuades his cousin to pose as a woman and apply for a job as a Burger Baby.

In role reversals, Mel becomes an employee by accepting an executive position with a catering firm, and the waitresses become owners by buying his diner.

Jolene can't bring herself to bruise the tender feelings of a bruiser who saved her life and now considers her his girl.

Alice fears that freshman Tommy is abusing his new freedom away from home by majoring in extracurricular activities.

Everyone takes with a grain of salt Alice's claim that she saw a UFO.

Joel Grey walks out after producer Mel turns a revue about New York into a desert musical with tunes like ""Two Tootsies from Tucson"" and ""Ramona from Arizona.""

Joel Grey offers his services gratis as the leading man in a musical revue bankrolled by Mel and featuring Alice. Mel, however, has never heard of Grey and gives the role to his bookie.

When, Mel recounts the story of the little old lady who mugged him, the old lady becomes four thugs.

Mel may get his diner back if Belle can get Robert Goulet to perform for a Las Vegas casino owner but when it seems she can't get him, Alice steps in and impersonates him.

Mel gets into a nose-to-beak yelling match with Vera's new pet parrot.

Tommy wants Alice to stop dating his school principal (Gary Collins).

A robbery heist gets messed up when the cash register is stuck. The robber thinks he is a failure, but he gets a chance to redeem himself when he helps a lady deliver a baby in the diner.

Alice is thrilled that Mel is taking Tommy camping, until she finds out that it involves hunting as well. Alice refuses to let Tommy go, but he runs away to go camping anyway. It isn't until he shoots an animal that he realizes that his mother was right all along.

Mel is a taskmaster in training Jolene for tryouts with a pro basketball team.

Mel gets an F for buying a day school to raze for a parking lot.

Jolene and Vera play Cupid for a dateless Alice by putting an ad in a magazine's personals column.

Afraid that he's lost the ""right stuff,"" Tommy quits the basketball team.

Alice mediates a squabble between a womanizing photographer (Desi Arnaz)and his fed-up wife (Janis Paige).

The girls accept an invitation to visit a new singles bar.

On the final day at the diner, Mel closes the blinds and gives away the cow creamers as the gang reminisces about the last nine years.

Despite his skepticism, Mel tries to find a way to exploit Vera's knack for foretelling the future.

Mel considers firing a waitress to save money.

Mel can't be moved after his bad back flares up at Alice's place.

Mel falls in love with a young nature hiker from New Jersey.

Endearments replace the insults in Flo and Mel's relationship after they attend an out-of-town game together.

An investigative reporter seeks refuge in Mel's Diner.

Mel signs a profit-sharing agreement with the girls just before learning he'll get a tidy sum for letting the city condemn his property.

Vera refuses to give up the baby girl someone left in her pile of wash at the laundromat.

On Halloween, Alice's latest heartthrob asks her to shepherd his four kids for the evening.

Alice tries to bridge the rift between Flo and her father, who is now sorry for deserting the family when she was a little girl.

Heartbroken over her boy friend's sudden lack of attention, Vera begs Belle to transform her into a sex goddess.

Tommy is cutting classes to pursue a singing career and his first job is singing at a juice saloon.

Alice and Vera vie for a role in a production being cast by an attractive director(Fred McCarren).

Hostility rages at Mel's after the workers decide to vent their petty grievances.

Flo fixes up Alice with her bronco-busting brother (Burton Gilliam).

Mel wants to know who's stealing food and making long-distance phone calls from the diner.

Mel and the staff prepare for a bus load of hungry customers.

Everyone's rattled when a Native American predicts an earthquake.

Mel's pushy mother winters nearby, and Mel's not sure that he'll make it to spring.

Vera is heartbroken after her boyfriend tells her that he's marrying someone else.

Mel tells the girls to ""stow it"" for the last time, then sells the diner to a humorless martinet.

Unable to buy back his diner from the new restaurateur, Mel opens an eatery in Alice's apartment.

Acclaimed as ""brilliant"" in her role as Cinderella, Vera is asked to audition for a part in a supermarket commercial.

Alice's sour reaction to Tommy's matchmaking efforts threatens Mel's new promotional gimmick which is free meals to customers if his waitresses don't smile.

Mel gives a big engagement ring to his girlfriend Marie, but the sparkle quickly fades when he insists that she sign a premarital agreement.

Things get hotter than Mel's chili when Dinah Shore invites Mel to prepare his recipe on her show and bring along one, but only one waitress.

A yule tale (with a touch of O. Henry's ""The Gift of the Magi"") finds the girls pooling their meager resources to celebrate Christmas at the diner.

Tommy stirs up trouble by candidly discussing his elders on a TV talk show.

The waitresses cut up a huge fish they find in the refrigerator, unaware that singer Jerry Reed had left it there until he could have it stuffed.

It's Alice's 40th birthday, and for the milestone she gets a millstone, a visit from her meddling mother.

Alice's spirit inspires a biker to recruit her as his ""old lady.""

Mel has a beef with his mother who wants to publish his secret chili recipe in her new cookbook.

Debbie Reynolds plays an actress whose torrid memoirs convince Mel he's the one she remembers as the greatest kisser in her life.

Alice's meddlesome mother knocks the stuffing out of her daughter's Thanksgiving dinner.

Boss Hogg and Deputy Enos of ""The Dukes of Hazzard"" pay a surprise visit. Up to his usual low tricks, Boss makes an offer to lease the diner that Mel can't refuse but should.

Alice does all that she can to stop Rose from becoming a permanent Phoeniz resident.

Flo takes the wheel herself when she learns that her trucker beau has a female partner.

An automated bank teller accidentally spews out $24,675 to an astonished but delighted Mel.

After getting shot accidentally with his own gun, Elliot quits the force and looks for a career more suited to his meager talents.

A fake Gypsy is caught stealing the silverware by Alice, and she puts a curse on the gang.

To Mel's disappointment, the girls take him at his word when he says he doesn't want a 50th-birthday party.

Vera meets a new boy friend at the movies, but refuses to bring him to the diner.

The return of Mel's domineering mother does nothing for his ego because after his back goes out, the customers flock in, for his mother's cooking.

Mel, his girlfriend and the waitresses spend the weekend packed like sardines in a fishing cabin.

Alice gets a ride but hardly a rise out of a sexist ballonist whose hot air isn't confined to his balloon.

Because she once baby-sat Jerry Reed, Flo is hounded for tickets to the singer's concert. Jerry plays himself.

A sleepless night of obscene phone calls prompts Alice into considering packing a piece.

Mel identifies a holdup man who has a record for assaulting a previous witness.

Alice allows Tommy to stay with Mel, prompting a wager between Alice and Mel, she bets that he will kick Tommy out and Mel bets that Alice will snoop on her son.

The new waitress Belle is making big points with her old boss Mel, but she's scoring zero with Alice and Vera.

Alice and friends are snowbound en route to her cousin's for Christmas.