The Worst Episodes of Alice

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

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Tom Whedon

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

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: N/A

Both Carrie and Alice are turned down as singers by a supper club owner who thinks they're too old for the job.

Director: Tom Trbovich

Writer: N/A

Mel is a taskmaster in training Jolene for tryouts with a pro basketball team.

Director: N/A

Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo

A trucker chooses Mel's Diner as the place to tell her amorous driving partner to hit the road.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo

Vera yearns for a romantic first wedding anniversary, but it gets off to anything but a romantic start and goes rapidly downhill from there.

Director: N/A

Writer: Lisa A. Bannick, Jack Carrerow

Answering a room-to-rent ad, Vera and Elliot's pushy landlady pushes herself and her kitschy furniture into their home and lives.

Director: Nancy Walker

Writer: N/A

Jolene loves her family, but finds it too much of a good thing when her father, five brothers, grandmother and family dog park themselves in her one-bedroom apartment.

Director: N/A

Writer: Lisa A. Bannick, Jack Carrerow

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

Director: Noam Pitlik

Writer: Chris Hayward

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

Director: Gary Shimokawa

Writer: N/A

Alice thinks she has found her main chance when she lands a gig singing at a big banquet with a 1940's theme and an influential audience of restaurant owners.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: N/A

Vera refuses to give up the baby girl someone left in her pile of wash at the laundromat.

Director: N/A

Writer: Tom Whedon

Carrie is slow to come out of a depression after a quickie divorce.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Bob Bendetson

Alice fears that freshman Tommy is abusing his new freedom away from home by majoring in extracurricular activities.

Director: Mel Ferber

Writer: Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman

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

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: N/A

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

Director: N/A

Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo

Tommy is cutting classes to pursue a singing career and his first job is singing at a juice saloon.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: N/A

Mel suddenly takes a romantic interest in Vera, who doesn't realize it's just a ploy to make his girlfriend, Marie, jealous.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: N/A

Alice's spirit inspires a biker to recruit her as his ""old lady.""

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Michael Weinberger

To steal a competitor's secret sauce recipe, Mel persuades his cousin to pose as a woman and apply for a job as a Burger Baby.

Director: John Pasquin

Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo

Jolene's hair is standing on end with a cat burglar prowling her neighborhood.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

After 40 years, Mel learns that his mother lied when she told him his dog was a war hero.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Sid Dorfman

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

Director: Alan Rafkin

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Kim Friedman

Writer: Tom Whedon