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

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

Alice meets her late husband's beneficiary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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).

Alice and Flo try to find Vera a man.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An investigative reporter seeks refuge in Mel's Diner.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mel considers firing a waitress to save money.

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

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

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

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

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

The diner personnel try to kick their bad habits.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.""

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

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.

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, 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.