About this season
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.
Episodes (16)
1. Romancing Mister Stone
Aired 14 October 1984 • 30 min
Jolene and Vera play Cupid for a dateless Alice by putting an ad in a magazine's personals column.
2. Space Sharples
Aired 28 October 1984 • 30 min
Mel gets a little spaced out after he thwarts a bank robbery while he's dressed up as Captain Galaxy for Halloween.
3. Big, Bad Mel
Aired 4 November 1984 • 30 min
Mel gets an F for buying a day school to raze for a parking lot.
4. Houseful of Hunnicutts
Aired 18 November 1984 • 30 min
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-bedroom apartment.
5. Tommy's Lost Weekend
Aired 25 November 1984 • 30 min
Alice is worried that Tommy's partying is leading to a serious drinking problem.
6. Undercover Mel
Aired 16 December 1984 • 30 min
At Elliot's suggestion and lured by a $5000 reward, Mel goes undercover to smoke out rustlers selling stolen beef.
7. Footloose Mel
Aired 23 December 1984 • 30 min
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.
8. Vera's Anniversary Blues
Aired 8 January 1985 • 30 min
Vera yearns for a romantic first wedding anniversary, but it gets off to anything but a romantic start and goes rapidly downhill from there.
9. Kiss the Grill Goodbye
Aired 15 January 1985 • 30 min
Jolene's appearance on the ""Working Women"" talk show does nothing to boost business at Mel's Diner.
10. Vera, the Nightbird
Aired 22 January 1985 • 30 min
Vera's secretly moonlighting as a sultry deejay called Nightbird and she's turning on all the males in Phoenix in the process.
11. Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore (1)
8.0Aired 29 January 1985 • 30 min
A country singer takes a personel as well as professional interest in Alice and begs her to join his band on the road.
12. Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore (2)
Aired 5 February 1985 • 30 min
Whether Alice likes it or not, and she's not sure, country singer Travis Marsh gives her a chance to reach for the stars in a performance with him.
13. The Night They Raided Debbie's
Aired 6 February 1985 • 30 min
Answering a room-to-rent ad, Vera and Elliot's pushy landlady pushes herself and her kitschy furniture into their home and lives.
14. One on One
Aired 5 March 1985 • 30 min
Mel is a taskmaster in training Jolene for tryouts with a pro basketball team.
15. Vera's Grounded Gumshoe
Aired 12 March 1985 • 30 min
After getting shot accidentally with his own gun, Elliot quits the force and looks for a career more suited to his meager talents.
16. Th-th-th-that's All, Folks
Aired 19 March 1985 • 30 min
On the final day at the diner, Mel closes the blinds and gives away the cow creamers as the gang reminisces about the last nine years.