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 9 Episodes

E1
Romancing Mister Stone
30 min 1984

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

E2
Space Sharples
30 min 1984

Mel gets a little spaced out after he thwarts a bank robbery while he's dressed up as Captain Galaxy for Halloween.

E3
Big, Bad Mel
30 min 1984

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

E4
Houseful of Hunnicutts
30 min 1984

Jolene loves her family, but finds it too much of a good thing when her father, five brothers, grandmother and family do…

E5
Tommy's Lost Weekend
30 min 1984

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

E6
Undercover Mel
30 min 1984

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

E7
Footloose Mel
30 min 1984

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

E8
Vera's Anniversary Blues
30 min 1985

Vera yearns for a romantic first wedding anniversary, but it gets off to anything but a romantic start and goes rapidly …

E9
Kiss the Grill Goodbye
30 min 1985

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

E10
Vera, the Nightbird
30 min 1985

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

E11
Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore (1)
30 min 1985

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

E12
Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore (2)
30 min 1985

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

E13
The Night They Raided Debbie's
30 min 1985

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

E14
One on One
30 min 1985

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

E15
Vera's Grounded Gumshoe
30 min 1985

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

E16
Th-th-th-that's All, Folks
30 min 1985

On the final day at the diner, Mel closes the blinds and gives away the cow creamers as the gang reminisces about the la…

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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