Alice (1976)
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.
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Episode 1 - Take Him, He's Yours
Release Date: 1978-09-24Alice takes Mel up on his boast that he can raise her son better than she.
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Episode 2 - Car Wars
Release Date: 1978-10-01Mel sells the girls a car that won't start.
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Episode 3 - Citizen Mel
Release Date: 1978-10-08Mel identifies a holdup man who has a record for assaulting a previous witness.
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Episode 4 - Vera's Popcorn Romance
Release Date: 1978-10-15Vera meets a new boy friend at the movies, but refuses to bring him to the diner.
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Episode 5 - Block Those Kicks
Release Date: 1978-10-22The diner personnel try to kick their bad habits.
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Episode 6 - What Happened to the Class of '78?
Release Date: 1978-10-29Flo's night life interferes with her night-school studies.
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Episode 7 - Better Never Than Late
Release Date: 1978-11-05While Mel is sleeping in the storeroom, Alice is robbed at gunpoint at the counter.
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Episode 8 - Mel's in a Family Way
Release Date: 1978-11-11Mel mistakes Alice's intentions when she invites him for a family dinner.
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Episode 9 - Who Ordered the Hot Turkey?
Release Date: 1978-11-19Mel unwittingly buys stolen turkeys for a Thanksgiving dinner he is having for orphans.
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Episode 10 - The Happy Hoofers
Release Date: 1978-11-26Mel is unhappy because Alice's second job — delivering singing telegrams — makes her late for the diner.
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Episode 11 - A Slight Case of ESP
Release Date: 1978-12-03Despite his skepticism, Mel tries to find a way to exploit Vera's knack for foretelling the future.
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Episode 12 - The Principal of the Thing
Release Date: 1978-12-10Tommy wants Alice to stop dating his school principal (Gary Collins).
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Episode 13 - What're You Doing New Year's Eve?
Release Date: 1978-12-31Flo finds herself without a date on New Year's Eve.
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Episode 14 - Sweet Charity
Release Date: 1979-01-14Alice's date gets two extra tickets to a celebrity ball and everyone wants to go.
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Episode 15 - The Fourth Time Around
Release Date: 1979-01-21Flo and Mel's brother (Carmine Caridi) decide to take a chance at marriage — even though it's the fourth time for each.
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Episode 16 - Tommy's First Love
Release Date: 1979-01-28Alice is angry when Tommy conducts his first romance on her telephone.
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Episode 17 - Mel Grows Up
Release Date: 1979-02-05Mel's pushy mother winters nearby, and Mel's not sure that he'll make it to spring.
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Episode 18 - Vera's Broken Heart
Release Date: 1979-02-18Vera is heartbroken after her boyfriend tells her that he's marrying someone else.
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Episode 19 - Alice's Decision
Release Date: 1979-02-25Alice's long-awaited break, a chance to fill a vacancy in a traveling trio will break her heart if she has to hit the road without Tommy.
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Episode 20 - The Last Stow It (1)
Release Date: 1979-03-11Mel tells the girls to ""stow it"" for the last time, then sells the diner to a humorless martinet.
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Episode 21 - The Last Stow It (2)
Release Date: 1979-03-11Unable to buy back his diner from the new restaurateur, Mel opens an eatery in Alice's apartment.
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Episode 22 - If the Shoe Fits
Release Date: 1979-03-18Alice and Vera vie for a role in a production being cast by an attractive director(Fred McCarren).
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Episode 23 - My Fair Vera
Release Date: 1979-03-25Acclaimed as ""brilliant"" in her role as Cinderella, Vera is asked to audition for a part in a supermarket commercial.
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Episode 24 - Flo Finds Her Father
Release Date: 1979-04-01Alice tries to bridge the rift between Flo and her father, who is now sorry for deserting the family when she was a little girl.