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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 sells the girls a car that won't start.

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

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.

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

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

Despite his skepticism, Mel tries to find a way to exploit Vera's knack for foretelling the future.

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.