Alice
Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.
Alice is mistakenly picked up by the five-0 for prostitution when she is performing in a nightclub.
A sleepless night of obscene phone calls prompts Alice into considering packing a piece.
A famous food critic dies in Mel's Diner, which freaks out everyone.
Alice feels that Tommy is learning about sex too early when she finds a picture of a naked woman in Tommy's wallet.
When Alice helps Flo get a man, the Man tries to help himself to Alice.
A suspected flasher and Flo's third ex-husband (Rod McCary) stir things up at Mel's Diner.
A Native American who claims Mel's diner is built on sacred ground refuses to leave.
Mel incites his waitresses to quit by giving a new waiter better wages than theirs.
Alice's moonlighting job as a nightclub singer is taking its toll on her waitress job.
Alice suspects that a diner regular is really an incognito mobster.
Mel can't be moved after his bad back flares up at Alice's place.
Endearments replace the insults in Flo and Mel's relationship after they attend an out-of-town game together.
Alice takes Mel up on his boast that he can raise her son better than she.
Mel identifies a holdup man who has a record for assaulting a previous witness.
Vera meets a new boy friend at the movies, but refuses to bring him to the diner.
Flo's night life interferes with her night-school studies.
While Mel is sleeping in the storeroom, Alice is robbed at gunpoint at the counter.
Mel mistakes Alice's intentions when she invites him for a family dinner.
Telly Savalas gives star-struck Vera a thrill when he stops by the diner while she's working there alone. When no one believes her story, she quits i... Read More
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... Read More
Mel gives a big engagement ring to his girlfriend Marie, but the sparkle quickly fades when he insists that she sign a premarital agreement.
Just one dance lesson and Tommy falls head over heels for his instructor, Vera.
Mel is convinced that his chief competitor is romancing Flo just to get the recipe for Mel's Texas-style chili, rated by a food critic as being ""the... Read More
Vera's boyfriend objects to her sketching nude males in art class.
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.
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.
An automated bank teller accidentally spews out $24,675 to an astonished but delighted Mel.
After his safe is stolen, Mel rents the services of two very efficient guard dogs.
Robert Goulet makes an appearance when Vera wins a free trip to Las Vegas and Alice, Mel and Belle tag along to try their luck.
Vera's Aunt Agatha, a freewheeling sexagenarian, makes a pit stop in Phoenix while motorcycling to Mexico. This prompts Vera to make a life altering... Read More
Against Alce's expressed wishes, Mel secretly teaches Tommy how to take care of a school bully.
The sparsely attended funeral of a buddy persuade Mel to become Mr. Nice Guy and ensure a decent turnout at his own burial.
Mel's mother is singing the blues because her husband of six months has just left her.
Determined to leave her mark on the world, Vera sets out to break the tap dancing endurance record.
On Halloween, Alice's latest heartthrob asks her to shepherd his four kids for the evening.
It's Alice's 40th birthday, and for the milestone she gets a millstone, a visit from her meddling mother.
Smooth operator Mel teaches his shy cousin, Wendell, how to score with Vera.
Against Mel's orders, Vera cashes a check for an old flame, who's nowhere to be found when it bounces.
Debbie Reynolds plays an actress whose torrid memoirs convince Mel he's the one she remembers as the greatest kisser in her life.
Mel tries to outdo an old buddy who shows up boasting a track record of fast living and sporting a blonde on his arm as proof.
There's gold in them there walls, or so Mel reckons after learning that the eccentric who built his diner left $20,000 stashed in another building.
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 Gr... Read More
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 fr... Read More
Alice's meddlesome mother knocks the stuffing out of her daughter's Thanksgiving dinner.
Carrie is slow to come out of a depression after a quickie divorce.
Jolene's brother pays a surprise visit, but the surprise is on him, he gets an icy reception from his sister.
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 M... Read More
A secret lover is sending Vera everything from poems to balloons.
Everyone's up in the air over Jolene's maiden flight as a part-time stewardess.
Alice's dinner date with a high-school flame who's now blind turns into a delightful trip down sensory lane.
A popular singer stops for directions at the diner and ends up proposing to Mel.
Both Carrie and Alice are turned down as singers by a supper club owner who thinks they're too old for the job.
Who would have thought Vera would find love in a greasy spoon? Especially with a cop who just ticketed her for jaywalking.
After a whirlwind courtship, Vera walks down the aisle with her intended.
Jolene and Vera play Cupid for a dateless Alice by putting an ad in a magazine's personals column.
Mel gets a little spaced out after he thwarts a bank robbery while he's dressed up as Captain Galaxy for Halloween.
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-b... Read More
Alice is worried that Tommy's partying is leading to a serious drinking problem.
At Elliot's suggestion and lured by a $5000 reward, Mel goes undercover to smoke out rustlers selling stolen beef.
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.
Vera yearns for a romantic first wedding anniversary, but it gets off to anything but a romantic start and goes rapidly downhill from there.
1 Reviews for Alice
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Super Admin
2026-01-09
Kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time.
