Alice (1976)
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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3x01 Take Him, He's Yours

25 September, 1978 5:30 am
Alice takes Mel up on his boast that he can raise her son better than she.

3x02 Car Wars

02 October, 1978 5:30 am
Mel sells the girls a car that won't start.

3x03 Citizen Mel

09 October, 1978 5:30 am
Mel identifies a holdup man who has a record for assaulting a previous witness.

3x04 Vera's Popcorn Romance

16 October, 1978 5:30 am
Vera meets a new boy friend at the movies, but refuses to bring him to the diner.

3x05 Block Those Kicks

23 October, 1978 5:30 am
The diner personnel try to kick their bad habits.

3x06 Whatever Happened to the Class of '78?

30 October, 1978 5:30 am
Flo's night life interferes with her night-school studies.

3x07 Better Never Than Late

06 November, 1978 5:30 am
While Mel is sleeping in the storeroom, Alice is robbed at gunpoint at the counter.

3x08 Mel's in a Family Way

12 November, 1978 5:30 am
Mel mistakes Alice's intentions when she invites him for a family dinner.

3x09 Who Ordered the Hot Turkey?

20 November, 1978 5:30 am
Mel unwittingly buys stolen turkeys for a Thanksgiving dinner he is having for orphans.

3x10 The Happy Hoofers

27 November, 1978 5:30 am
Mel is unhappy because Alice's second job — delivering singing telegrams — makes her late for the diner.

3x11 A Slight Case of ESP

04 December, 1978 5:30 am
Despite his skepticism, Mel tries to find a way to exploit Vera's knack for foretelling the future.

3x12 The Principal of the Thing

11 December, 1978 5:30 am
Tommy wants Alice to stop dating his school principal (Gary Collins).

3x13 What're You Doing New Year's Eve?

01 January, 1979 5:30 am
Flo finds herself without a date on New Year's Eve.

3x14 Sweet Charity

15 January, 1979 5:30 am
Alice's date gets two extra tickets to a celebrity ball and everyone wants to go.

3x15 The Fourth Time Around

22 January, 1979 5:30 am
Flo and Mel's brother (Carmine Caridi) decide to take a chance at marriage — even though it's the fourth time for each.

3x16 Tommy's First Love

29 January, 1979 5:30 am
Alice is angry when Tommy conducts his first romance on her telephone.

3x17 Mel Grows Up

06 February, 1979 5:30 am
Mel's pushy mother winters nearby, and Mel's not sure that he'll make it to spring.

3x18 Vera's Broken Heart

19 February, 1979 5:30 am
Vera is heartbroken after her boyfriend tells her that he's marrying someone else.

3x19 Alice's Decision

26 February, 1979 5:30 am
Alice'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.

3x20 The Last Stow It (1)

12 March, 1979 5:30 am
Mel tells the girls to ""stow it"" for the last time, then sells the diner to a humorless martinet.

3x21 The Last Stow It (2)

12 March, 1979 5:30 am
Unable to buy back his diner from the new restaurateur, Mel opens an eatery in Alice's apartment.

3x22 If the Shoe Fits

19 March, 1979 6:30 am
Alice and Vera vie for a role in a production being cast by an attractive director(Fred McCarren).

3x23 My Fair Vera

26 March, 1979 6:30 am
Acclaimed as ""brilliant"" in her role as Cinderella, Vera is asked to audition for a part in a supermarket commercial.

3x24 Flo Finds Her Father

02 April, 1979 6:30 am
Alice tries to bridge the rift between Flo and her father, who is now sorry for deserting the family when she was a little girl.

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