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

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

The diner personnel try to kick their bad habits.

Flo finds herself without a date on New Year's Eve.

Tommy wants Alice to stop dating his school principal (Gary Collins).

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.

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

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

Alice meets her late husband's beneficiary.

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.

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

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

Alice falls for an ex-football player, who is now an actor.

Mel sells the girls a car that won't start.

Mel identifies a holdup man who has a record for assaulting a previous witness.

Mel tells the girls to ""stow it"" for the last time, then sells the diner to a humorless martinet.

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

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.

Vera meets a new boy friend at the movies, but refuses to bring him to the diner.

While Mel is sleeping in the storeroom, Alice is robbed at gunpoint at the counter.

Unable to buy back his diner from the new restaurateur, Mel opens an eatery in Alice's apartment.

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.