The BEST episodes of Alice
Every episode of Alice ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Alice!
After her husband, Donald, was killed in a truck accident, Alice Hyatt and her 12-year-old son, Tommy, moved out of their home in New Jersey and headed for Hollywood. Alice's dream was to become a singer but for the time being she got work as a waitress in a greasy spoon, Mel's Diner after her car breaks down in Phoenix. Mel was gruff and demanding and constantly bossing his three waitresses around.
#1 - Car Wars
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1978
Mel sells the girls a car that won't start.
#2 - 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.
#3 - Not with My Niece You Don't
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/1982
Mel gives Tommy advice on how to charm the ladies, which Tommy promptly applies to Mel's niece.
#4 - Alice Faces the Music
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/14/1983
The waitresses pit their musical knowledge against that of three plumbers on a TV quiz show.
#5 - Queen of Soaps
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/31/1982
After getting hooked on soap operas, Vera becomes a washout at work and later quits.
#6 - Sharples vs. Sharples
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/1982
Mel has a beef with his mother who wants to publish his secret chili recipe in her new cookbook.
#7 - Valentine's Day Massacre
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/14/1982
Valentine's Day promises anything but hearts and flowers for the diner staff, who all quarrel with their dates.
#8 - The Best Little Waitress in the World
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/21/1982
A book on building self-confidence inspires Vera to become ""the best little waitress in the world!"" Later, Mel leaves a newly confident Vera in charge of the diner.
#9 - Alice and the Acorns
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/7/1982
Alice is visited by a high-school chum who's still suffering from her teenage inferiority complex.
#10 - Jolene Hunnicutt, Dynamite Trucker
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/14/1982
To help Jolene's exhausted good buddy, the girls drive his rig to a mining town, blissfully unaware that they're hauling dynamite.
#11 - Mel Wins By a Nose
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/21/1982
Mel considers getting a nose job while undergoing surgery for a deviated septum.
#12 - Give My Regrets to Broadway
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/4/1982
Alice's actress friend from New York persuades Tommy that he has a brilliant future on Broadway.
#13 - Vera's Reunion Romance
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/11/1982
Vera returns from her high-school reunion with stars in her eyes and a sparkler on her finger.
#14 - Monty Falls for Alice
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/18/1982
A jilted acquaintance flips for Alice on the first bounce and when she doesn't reciprocate his feelings he threatens to jump from the Mel's Diner sign.
#15 - Spell Mel's
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/2/1982
To counter a competitor whose contest is drawing customers, Mel launches one too and ups the ante to $3000.
#16 - My Mother the Landlord
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/16/1982
Mel happily envisions a rent-free future when his mother buys his apartment building but surprises him when she announces a $50 rent increase.
#17 - Sorry, Wrong Lips
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/1982
Debbie Reynolds plays an actress whose torrid memoirs convince Mel he's the one she remembers as the greatest kisser in her life.
#18 - Do You Take This Waitress?
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1982
Mel tries to outdo an old buddy who shows up boasting a track record of fast living and sporting a blonde on his arm as proof.
#19 - The Secret of Mel's Diner
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1982
There's gold in them there walls, or so Mel reckons after learning that the eccentric who built his diner left $20,000 stashed in another building.
#20 - Alice at the Palace
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1982
Joel Grey offers his services gratis as the leading man in a musical revue bankrolled by Mel and featuring Alice. Mel, however, has never heard of Grey and gives the role to his bookie.
#21 - Joel Grey Saves the Day
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1982
Joel Grey walks out after producer Mel turns a revue about New York into a desert musical with tunes like ""Two Tootsies from Tucson"" and ""Ramona from Arizona.""
#22 - Alice's Turkey of a Thanksgiving
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1982
Alice's meddlesome mother knocks the stuffing out of her daughter's Thanksgiving dinner.
#23 - Carrie on the Rebound
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/9/1983
Carrie is slow to come out of a depression after a quickie divorce.
#24 - Jolene's Brother Jonas
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/16/1983
Jolene's brother pays a surprise visit, but the surprise is on him, he gets an icy reception from his sister.
#25 - Alice Sees the Light
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/1983
Everyone takes with a grain of salt Alice's claim that she saw a UFO.