Alice
A greasy-spoon diner in Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this long-running series. The title character, Alice Hyatt, is an aspiring singer who arrives in Phoenix with her teen-age son Tommy, after the death of her truck-driver husband. Alice is hired at a diner owned by Mel Sharples, a gravel-voiced, male-chauvinist fry cook. She waitresses at Mel's Diner while awaiting her big break. Her fellow waitresses are raucous redhead Flo and naïve Vera. Flo is later replaced by Southern blonde Belle, who is soon replaced by spunky curly-haired Jolene. Alice and her friends experience several interesting years together at Mel's Diner, which is frequented by quirky truckers, repairmen, and other blue-collar types, and by several Hollywood celebrities who appear as themselves.
- 1976-1985
- 9 seasons
- CBS
- Comedy
- TV-PG
A greasy-spoon diner in Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this long-running series. The title character, Alice Hyatt, is an aspiring singer who arrives in Phoenix with her teen-age son Tommy, after the death of her truck-driver husband. Alice is hired at a diner owned by Mel Sharples, a gravel-voiced, male-chauvinist fry cook. She waitresses at Mel's Diner while awaiting her big break. Her fellow waitresses are raucous redhead Flo and naïve Vera. Flo is later replaced by Southern blonde Belle, who is soon replaced by spunky curly-haired Jolene. Alice and her friends experience several interesting years together at Mel's Diner, which is frequented by quirky truckers, repairmen, and other blue-collar types, and by several Hollywood celebrities who appear as themselves.
Season 9 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 1984 - 1985
Episode 1
Romancing Mr. Stone
Sun, Oct 14, 1984 30 mins
The girls place a personal ad to get Alice a date.
Episode 2
Space Sharples
Sun, Oct 28, 1984 30 mins
Mel stops a bank robbery dressed as a superhero for Halloween.
Episode 3
Big Bad Mel
Sun, Nov 4, 1984 30 mins
Mel wants to tear down a day school to build a parking lot.
Episode 4
Houseful of Hunnicutts
Sun, Nov 18, 1984 30 mins
Jolene has family overload when seven of them take up residence in her one bedroom apartment.
Episode 5
Tommy's Lost Weekend
Sun, Nov 25, 1984 30 mins
Tommy comes for a visit and Alice notices he's not looking so well and he's trying to keep her finding out he has unusual hair cut. He says he went to a party and got drunk and woke up with his hair cut that way. She tells him that he has a drinking problem but he says he doesn't. He asks her if he could borrow her credit card so he can rent a car to go on a date. Alice refuses. Tommy's not happy. Nicholas not knowing the whole story and wanting to make inroads with Alice offers Tommy his car. But he goes drinking again and loses his car.
Episode 6
Undercover Mel
Sun, Dec 16, 1984 30 mins
Mel has gone undercover to stop some beef rustlers and collect the reward.
Episode 7
Footloose Mel
Sun, Dec 23, 1984 30 mins
Mel throws out a bunch of break dancers whom he thinks are nothing but a gang of hoodlums.
Episode 8
Vera's Anniversary Blues
Tue, Jan 8, 1985 30 mins
Vera and Elliot celebrate their anniversary by reenacting their first meeting which was Elliot arresting Vera for jaywalking. When Vera sees a cop across the street thinking it's Elliot, goes out to meet but discovers it's not Elliot and the cop cites her. Later when she sees whom she thinks is Elliot, she goes out again only to be arrested by the same cop again. And when she tries to reason with him and when she thinks she got to him she rips up the citation. He then arrests Vera. Elliot goes to see her at the station and apologizes. But when he can't remember their song things go bad again.
Episode 9
Kiss the Grill Goodbye
Tue, Jan 15, 1985 30 mins
A television appearance by Jolene doesn't help business at Mel's Diner.
Episode 10
Vera, the Nightbird
Tue, Jan 22, 1985 30 mins
In her second job as a night DJ, Vera is taking Phoenix by storm.
Episode 11
Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore: Part 1
Tue, Jan 29, 1985 30 mins
Alice gets an offer to sing with a country music group.
Episode 12
Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore: Part 2
Tue, Feb 5, 1985 30 mins
Alice gets an offer to sing with a country music group.
Episode 13
The Night They Raided Debbie's
Wed, Feb 6, 1985 30 mins
Vera's landlady tries to horn in on her and Elliot's lives.
Episode 14
One on One
Tue, Mar 5, 1985 30 mins
Jolene has Mel as a trainer to get on a professional basketball team.
Episode 15
Vera's Grounded Gumshoe
Tue, Mar 12, 1985 30 mins
When something happens to Elliot at work, he resigns. He then tries to find another job. But he fails to find one, he decides to be a homemaker but he ends up wrecking their home. So Vera and the others decide to try to get him to go back to the force by staging a robbery at the diner. But when a robber comes in he thinks it's a set up till he sees it's not.
Episode 16
Th-th-th-that's All Folks
Tue, Mar 19, 1985 30 mins
Mel informs the girls that he sold the diner. And it turns out that Alice and Jolene were going to quit because Alice decided to join a band and Jolene's going to open her own beauty shop. Vera learns she's pregnant. The buyer tells Mel that he has to vacate sooner than he was told. So he, the girls, Tommy and Earl, on the last night, reminisce about everything that happened over the years.