The Best Episodes of Alice

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

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Tom Whedon

The diner personnel try to kick their bad habits.

Director: William Asher

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: N/A

Alice meets her late husband's beneficiary.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: William Asher

Writer: N/A

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

Director: William Asher

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Kim Friedman

Writer: N/A

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

Director: William Asher

Writer: Tom Whedon

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.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Tom Whedon

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

Director: N/A

Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo

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

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: N/A

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

Director: John Pasquin

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Mel Ferber

Writer: N/A

Vera's boyfriend might very well be a married man.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

Director: William Asher

Writer: N/A

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

Director: William Asher

Writer: Tom Whedon

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

Director: William Asher

Writer: N/A

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

Director: William Asher

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Dan Wilcox, Thad Mumford

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: Tom Whedon

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

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo