Every season of Alice ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Alice!

Alice gets her hopes up to be a big star when a talent agent comes to town.

Pilot

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

Alice Gets a Pass

Alice meets her late husband's beneficiary.

A Piece of the Rock

Alice is mistakenly picked up by the five-0 for prostitution when she is performing in a nightclub.

Pay the Fifty Dollars

A sleepless night of obscene phone calls prompts Alice into considering packing a piece.

A Call to Arms

A famous food critic dies in Mel's Diner, which freaks out everyone.

The Last Review

Aliec feels that Tommy is learning about sex too early when she finds a picture of a naked woman in Tommy's wallet.

Sex Education

When Alice helps Flo get a man, the Man tries to help himself to Alice.

Big Daddy Dawson's Coming

Alice and Flo try to keep Vera from O'Ding on sleeping pills.

Good Night Sweet Vera

Alice is proposed marriage from an old boyfriend from the old neighborhood.

The Dilemma

Alice is thrilled that Mel is taking Tommy camping, until she finds out that it involves hunting as well. Alice refuses to let Tommy go, but he runs away to go camping anyway. It isn't until he shoots an animal that he realizes that his mother was right all along.

Who Killed Bugs Bunny?

Rose Hyatt comes to visit Alice and Tommy, much to Alice's chagrin. And now she's talking about staying there....

Mother-in-Law (1)

Alice does all that she can to stop Rose from becoming a permanent Phoeniz resident.

Mother-in-Law (2)

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

Vera's Mortician

Mel falls in love with a young nature hiker from New Jersey.

Mel's in Love

Mel leaves Alice and Flo his car when he goes on a trip, but Flo gets it totaled in an accident that is spread out over several blocks. Will they fix it time before Mel gets back? Nope, Mel comes home early and finds out about his car from an angry Hispanic neighbor!

The Accident

A robbery heist gets messed up when the cash register is stuck. The robber thinks he is a failure, but he gets a chance to redeem himself when he helps a lady deliver a baby in the diner.

The Failure

A fake Gypsy is caught stealing the silverware by Alice, and she puts a curse on the gang.

The Hex

Alice might be in trouble with Uncle Sam when she learns that her recently decease husband never paid his back taxes.

The Pain of No Return

Flo's trailer is stolen, and Alice has the heart to let her stay at her house for a spell. The spell is broken when Alice finds out that Flo is an all-out slob and have unwelcomed visitors (Flo's latest boyfriend, not roaches).

The Odd Couple

A Night to Remember

Alice unknowingly donates Mel's old Navy Trophy to a rummage sale.

Mel's Cup

A Bag full of money is found in the diner, and Alice is the only one who wants to find the owner.

The Bundle

Alice gets her chance at stardom as a hamburger on a TV commercial for the diner.

Mel's Happy Burger

A suspected flasher and Flo's third ex-husband (Rod McCary) stir things up at Mel's Diner.

The Second Time 'Round

A Native American who claims Mel's diner is built on sacred ground refuses to leave.

The Indian Taker

Mel incites his waitresses to quit by giving a new waiter better wages than theirs.

86 the Waitresses

Alice's moonlighting job as a nightclub singer is taking its toll on her waitress job.

Alice by Moonlight

The girls accept an invitation to visit a new singles bar.

Single Belles

Alice suspects that a diner regular is really an incognito mobster.

The Sixty Minutes Man

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

That Old Back Magic

Endearments replace the insults in Flo and Mel's relationship after they attend an out-of-town game together.

Love is Sweeping the Counter

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

A Semi-Merry Christmas

When George Burns stops into Mel's, Vera believes that he's actually the Deity he played in the movie Oh, God!

Oh! George Burns

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

The Eyes of Texas

An amorous high-school basketball star starts putting the moves on Alice.

Love is a Free Throw

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

Close Encounters of the Worst Kind

A pharmacist protesting food additives threatens to take his life in Mel's Diner.

The Pharmacist

Flo fixes up Alice with her bronco-busting brother (Burton Gilliam).

Love Me, Love My Horse

An investigative reporter seeks refuge in Mel's Diner.

The Reporter

Flo is courted by a rich Arab (Richard Libertini) who, unknown to her, already has three wives.

Florence of Arabia

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

The Cuban Connection

To Mel's disappointment, the girls take him at his word when he says he doesn't want a 50th-birthday party.

Mel's Big Five-0

Mel wants to know who's stealing food and making long-distance phone calls from the diner.

Don't Lock Now

Because she once baby-sat Jerry Reed, Flo is hounded for tickets to the singer's concert. Jerry plays himself.

The Star in the Storeroom

Mel and the staff prepare for a bus load of hungry customers.

The Bus

Mel considers firing a waitress to save money.

Mel's Recession

Everyone's rattled when a Native American predicts an earthquake.

Earthquake

Alice takes Mel up on his boast that he can raise her son better than she.

Take Him, He's Yours

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

Car Wars

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

Citizen Mel

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

Vera's Popcorn Romance

The diner personnel try to kick their bad habits.

Block Those Kicks

Flo's night life interferes with her night-school studies.

What Happened to the Class of '78?

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

Better Never Than Late

Mel mistakes Alice's intentions when she invites him for a family dinner.

Mel's in a Family Way

Mel unwittingly buys stolen turkeys for a Thanksgiving dinner he is having for orphans.

Who Ordered the Hot Turkey?

Mel is unhappy because Alice's second job â€” delivering singing telegrams â€” makes her late for the diner.

The Happy Hoofers

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

A Slight Case of ESP

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

The Principal of the Thing

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

What're You Doing New Year's Eve?

Alice's date gets two extra tickets to a celebrity ball and everyone wants to go.

Sweet Charity

Flo and Mel's brother (Carmine Caridi) decide to take a chance at marriage â€” even though it's the fourth time for each.

The Fourth Time Around

Alice is angry when Tommy conducts his first romance on her telephone.

Tommy's First Love

Mel's pushy mother winters nearby, and Mel's not sure that he'll make it to spring.

Mel Grows Up

Vera is heartbroken after her boyfriend tells her that he's marrying someone else.

Vera's Broken Heart

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.

Alice's Decision

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

The Last Stow It (1)

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

The Last Stow It (2)

Alice and Vera vie for a role in a production being cast by an attractive director(Fred McCarren).

If the Shoe Fits

Acclaimed as ""brilliant"" in her role as Cinderella, Vera is asked to audition for a part in a supermarket commercial.

My Fair Vera

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.

Flo Finds Her Father

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.

Has Anyone Here Seen Telly?

Alice's sour reaction to Tommy's matchmaking efforts threatens Mel's new promotional gimmick which is free meals to customers if his waitresses don't smile.

Mona Lisa Alice

Mel gives a big engagement ring to his girlfriend Marie, but the sparkle quickly fades when he insists that she sign a premarital agreement.

Mel Loves Marie

Just one dance lesson and Tommy falls head over heels for his instructor, Vera.

Vera Robs the Cradle

Mel is convinced that his chief competitor is romancing Flo just to get the recipe for Mel's Texas-style chili, rated by a food critic as being ""the best in the West.""

Flo's Chili Reception

Vera's boyfriend objects to her sketching nude males in art class.

Little Alice Bluenose

The return of Mel's domineering mother does nothing for his ego because after his back goes out, the customers flock in, for his mother's cooking.

Carrie Sharples Strikes Again

Things get hotter than Mel's chili when Dinah Shore invites Mel to prepare his recipe on her show and bring along one, but only one waitress.

Mel's in the Kitchen With Dinah

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

Cabin Fever

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.

My Cousin, Art Carney

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.

Mel, the Magi

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

Good Buddy Flo

Tommy stirs up trouble by candidly discussing his elders on a TV talk show.

Alice in TV Land

Mel installs a time clock which prompts the waitresses to demand overtime for the Sunday cleanup they used to do for nothing.

Alice Beats the Clock

Mel is delighted that his mother is planning to remarry until he meets his prospective stepfather.

Carrie's Wedding

Tommy has his heart set on taking his girl to a formal Valentine's dance and he needs a tuxedo.

My Funny Valentine Tux

Mel plays host to a buddy whose wife has just left him.

Auld Acquaintances Should Be Forgot

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

Flo's Farewell

Mel hires Belle, a Mississippi belle who rings Mel's chimes as ""one of the best waitresses I've ever had.""  However, Belle is now aiming for lusher pastures as a country-music writer.

For Whom the Belle Toils

The new waitress Belle is making big points with her old boss Mel, but she's scoring zero with Alice and Vera.

One Too Many Girls

Heartbroken over her boy friend's sudden lack of attention, Vera begs Belle to transform her into a sex goddess.

Vera, the Vamp

Mel signs a profit-sharing agreement with the girls just before learning he'll get a tidy sum for letting the city condemn his property.

Profit Without Honor

Mel is receptive to an infatuated tour guide, as long as she keeps steering tourists into his diner.

Cook's Tour

Alice allows Tommy to stay with Mel, prompting a wager between Alice and Mel, she bets that he will kick Tommy out and Mel bets that Alice will snoop on her son.

Here Comes Alice Cottontail

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

Mel and the Green Machine

After his safe is stolen, Mel rents the services of two very efficient guard dogs.

Dog Day Evening

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.

Vegas (1)

Mel may get his diner back if Belle can get Robert Goulet to perform for a Las Vegas casino owner but when it seems she can't get him, Alice steps in and impersonates him.

Vegas (2)

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.

The Best Seasons of Alice

The Best Seasons of Alice

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