Alice and friends are snowbound en route to her cousin's for Christmas.

Hostility rages at Mel's after the workers decide to vent their petty grievances.

A yule tale (with a touch of O. Henry's ""The Gift of the Magi"") finds the girls pooling their meager resources to celebrate Christmas at the diner.

Robert Goulet makes an appearance when Vera wins a free trip to Las Vegas and Alice, Mel and Belle tag along to try their luck.

Against Alce's expressed wishes, Mel secretly teaches Tommy how to take care of a school bully.

Flo's vanity keeps her from getting the eyeglasses she obviously needs.

Telly Savalas gives star-struck Vera a thrill when he stops by the diner while she's working there alone. When no one believes her story, she quits in a huff.

An automated bank teller accidentally spews out $24,675 to an astonished but delighted Mel.

On Halloween, Alice's latest heartthrob asks her to shepherd his four kids for the evening.

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.

Mel, his girlfriend and the waitresses spend the weekend packed like sardines in a fishing cabin.

Vera asks Art Carney, a sixth cousin on her father's side, to endorse Mel's chili, so it can be marketed frozen as Chili con Carney.

Mel gives Tommy advice on how to charm the ladies, which Tommy promptly applies to Mel's niece.

After getting hooked on soap operas, Vera becomes a washout at work and later quits.

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

Flo takes the wheel herself when she learns that her trucker beau has a female partner.

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

Alice mediates a squabble between a womanizing photographer (Desi Arnaz)and his fed-up wife (Janis Paige).

A book on building self-confidence inspires Vera to become ""the best little waitress in the world!"" Later, Mel leaves a newly confident Vera in charge of the diner.

Alice is visited by a high-school chum who's still suffering from her teenage inferiority complex.

Who would have thought Vera would find love in a greasy spoon? Especially with a cop who just ticketed her for jaywalking.

Mel can't be moved after his bad back flares up at Alice's place.

A wealthy Houston restaurateur offers Flo a job she finds hard to refuse.

Determined to leave her mark on the world, Vera sets out to break the tap dancing endurance record.

Alice blows the whistle on Tommy's basketball playing when his grades start to slip.