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.
A wealthy Houston restaurateur offers Flo a job she finds hard to refuse.
Alice mediates a squabble between a womanizing photographer (Desi Arnaz)and his fed-up wife (Janis Paige).
Answering a room-to-rent ad, Vera and Elliot's pushy landlady pushes herself and her kitschy furniture into their home and lives.
Whether Alice likes it or not, and she's not sure, country singer Travis Marsh gives her a chance to reach for the stars in a performance with him.
A country singer takes a personel as well as professional interest in Alice and begs her to join his band on the road.
Vera's secretly moonlighting as a sultry deejay called Nightbird and she's turning on all the males in Phoenix in the process.
Jolene's appearance on the ""Working Women"" talk show does nothing to boost business at Mel's Diner.
Vera yearns for a romantic first wedding anniversary, but it gets off to anything but a romantic start and goes rapidly downhill from there.
Mel 86es a group of ""hoodlums,"" unaware that they're the break dancers expected to perform at the diner as part of an arts festival.
At Elliot's suggestion and lured by a $5000 reward, Mel goes undercover to smoke out rustlers selling stolen beef.
Alice is worried that Tommy's partying is leading to a serious drinking problem.
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.
Jolene and Vera play Cupid for a dateless Alice by putting an ad in a magazine's personals column.
Vera and Elliot buy a charming old house that comes complete with fireplace, furniture and antiques one of which is a shocking surprise.
Mel disdains accommodating the handicapped until two sprained ankles give him a different view, from a wheelchair.
Jolene has second thoughts about marrying a TV game show host especially after a dab of permanent glue bonds her firmly to Mel.
In role reversals, Mel becomes an employee by accepting an executive position with a catering firm, and the waitresses become owners by buying his diner.
Vera takes a tumble trying to rescue a nest of baby blue jays from the diner sign before Mel gets to them with a broom.
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.
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.""
Everyone takes with a grain of salt Alice's claim that she saw a UFO.
Alice fears that freshman Tommy is abusing his new freedom away from home by majoring in extracurricular activities.
Jolene can't bring herself to bruise the tender feelings of a bruiser who saved her life and now considers her his girl.
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.
Using Tommy's marketing advice, Mel increases his business but also learns he's heading for bankruptcy.
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