Alice
Comedy • Series

Alice

"Kiss my grits!"

7.1/10 1976 9 Seasons 202 Episodes Ended

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.

Season: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Season 7 Episodes

E1
Sorry, Wrong Lips
30 min 1982

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

E2
Do You Take . . . ?
30 min 1982

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 …

E3
The Secret of Mel's Diner
30 min 1982

There's gold in them there walls, or so Mel reckons after learning that the eccentric who built his diner left $20,000 s…

E4
Alice at the Palace
30 min 1982

Joel Grey offers his services gratis as the leading man in a musical revue bankrolled by Mel and featuring Alice. Mel, …

E5
Joel Grey Saves the Day
30 min 1982

Joel Grey walks out after producer Mel turns a revue about New York into a desert musical with tunes like ""Two Tootsies…

E6
Alice's Turkey of a Thanksgiving
30 min 1982

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

E7
Carrie on the Rebound
30 min 1983

Carrie is slow to come out of a depression after a quickie divorce.

E8
Jolene's Brother Jonas
30 min 1983

Jolene's brother pays a surprise visit, but the surprise is on him, he gets an icy reception from his sister.

E9
Alice Sees the Light
30 min 1983

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

E10
Vera the Virtuoso
30 min 1983

Vera, whose cello playing can reduce a virtuoso to tears, is asked to play in a local string quartet.

E11
Alice Faces the Music
30 min 1983

The waitresses pit their musical knowledge against that of three plumbers on a TV quiz show.

E12
Tommy, the Jailbird
30 min 1983

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

E13
Jolene and the Night Watchman
30 min 1983

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

E14
Mel's Dream Car
30 min 1983

Mel is stripping his gears over his jazzy new Porsche he purchased for a measly $20.

E15
Come Back Little Sharples
30 min 1983

Mel has had it up to his keister with the way things are going so he absconds to his apartment for a beer and pizza bing…

E16
Vera, the Torch
30 min 1983

Vera wishes her landlady the worst for evicting her pets then feels responsible when the old crank's apartment catches o…

E17
The Grass is Always Greener
30 min 1983

In role reversals, Mel becomes an employee by accepting an executive position with a catering firm, and the waitresses b…

E18
Tommy Fouls Out
30 min 1983

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

E19
Vera on the Lam
30 min 1983

After Mel decides to have the waitresses bonded, Vera owns up to a criminal past and takes it on the lam.

E20
Mel's Cousin Wendy?
30 min 1983

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…

E21
Sweet Erasable Mel
30 min 1983

Mel's experiment with a computer goes well until Vera enters a transaction and erases every trace of Mel's financial exi…

E22
Tommy Hyatt, Business Consultant
30 min 1983

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

E23
Jolene Lets the Cat Out of the Bag
30 min 1983

Jolene's hair is standing on end with a cat burglar prowling her neighborhood.

Cast

Linda Lavin
Linda Lavin
Alice Hyatt
Vic Tayback
Vic Tayback
Mel Sharples
Beth Howland
Beth Howland
Vera Louise Gorman-Novak
Celia Weston
Celia Weston
Jolene Hunnicutt
Philip McKeon
Philip McKeon
Tommy Hyatt
Charles Levin
Charles Levin
Elliot Novak

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