6.3/10 57 votes#1 - The Great Escape
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/15/1981
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
- 6.3/10 72 votes
#2 - The Over-the-Hill Girls
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1983
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
- 6.4/10 77 votes
#3 - The Indian Taker
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1977
A Native American who claims Mel's diner is built on sacred ground refuses to leave.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Tom Whedon
- 6.5/10 76 votes
#4 - Love is a Free Throw
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/1978
An amorous high-school basketball star starts putting the moves on Alice.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/10 62 votes
#5 - Vera's Anniversary Blues
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 1/8/1985
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: Jack Carrerow, Lisa A. Bannick
- 6.5/10 54 votes
#6 - The Night They Raided Debbie's
Season 9 Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/1985
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
- 6.5/10 50 votes
#7 - One on One
Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 3/5/1985
Mel is a taskmaster in training Jolene for tryouts with a pro basketball team.
Director: N/A
Writer: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo
- 6.6/10 54 votes
#8 - Alice Strikes Up the Band
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 3/29/1981
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
- 6.7/10 64 votes
#9 - Vera Robs the Cradle
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1979
Just one dance lesson and Tommy falls head over heels for his instructor, Vera.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/10 54 votes
#10 - Cook's Tour
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/30/1980
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
- 6.7/10 54 votes
#11 - Baby Makes Five
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/1981
Vera refuses to give up the baby girl someone left in her pile of wash at the laundromat.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tom Whedon
6.8/10 75 votes#12 - The Pain of No Return
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1977
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
- 6.8/10 69 votes
#13 - The Pharmacist
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/29/1978
A pharmacist protesting food additives threatens to take his life in Mel's Diner.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Chris Hayward
- 6.8/10 65 votes
#14 - Sweet Charity
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1979
Alice's date gets two extra tickets to a celebrity ball and everyone wants to go.
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/10 70 votes
#15 - Carrie's Wedding
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1980
Mel is delighted that his mother is planning to remarry until he meets his prospective stepfather.
Director: Gary Shimokawa
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/10 55 votes
#16 - Alice's Son, the Drop-out
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/1981
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
- 6.8/10 66 votes
#17 - The Wild One
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/27/1981
Alice's spirit inspires a biker to recruit her as his ""old lady.""
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Michael Weinberger
- 6.8/10 56 votes
#18 - Tommy, the Jailbird
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 3/21/1983
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
- 6.8/10 58 votes
#19 - Mel's Cousin Wendy?
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 5/29/1983
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
- 6.8/10 60 votes
#20 - The Robot Wore Pink
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 12/18/1983
After Alice quits in a huff, Mel replaces her with a very efficient and popular robot named Blanche.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Peter Noah
- 6.8/10 53 votes
#21 - Houseful of Hunnicutts
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 11/18/1984
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: Jack Carrerow, Lisa A. Bannick
6.9/10 135 votes#22 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/31/1976
Alice gets her hopes up to be a big star when a talent agent comes to town.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: Robert Getchell
6.9/10 76 votes#23 - Mel's in Love
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1977
Mel falls in love with a young nature hiker from New Jersey.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/10 78 votes
#24 - 86 the Waitresses
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1977
Mel incites his waitresses to quit by giving a new waiter better wages than theirs.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/10 59 votes
#25 - Auld Acquaintances Should Be Forgot
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/17/1980
Mel plays host to a buddy whose wife has just left him.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Alice
Every episode of Alice ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Alice!
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Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
"The Great Escape" is the worst rated episode of "Alice". It scored 6.3/10 based on 57 votes. Directed by Marc Daniels and written by Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo, it aired on 3/15/1981. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Over-the-Hill Girls".