The BEST episodes of Alice season 4
Every episode of Alice season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Alice season 4!
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 - Flo's Farewell
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1980
A wealthy Houston restaurateur offers Flo a job she finds hard to refuse.
#2 - Mona Lisa Alice
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1979
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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Cabin Fever
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/1979
Mel, his girlfriend and the waitresses spend the weekend packed like sardines in a fishing cabin.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Here Comes Alice Cottontail
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/6/1980
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.
#7 - One Too Many Girls
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/9/1980
The new waitress Belle is making big points with her old boss Mel, but she's scoring zero with Alice and Vera.
#8 - Has Anyone Here Seen Telly?
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1979
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.
#9 - Carrie Sharples Strikes Again
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1979
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.
#10 - Good Buddy Flo
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1980
Flo takes the wheel herself when she learns that her trucker beau has a female partner.
#11 - Alice in TV Land
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/1980
Tommy stirs up trouble by candidly discussing his elders on a TV talk show.
#12 - Mel, the Magi
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/23/1979
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.
#13 - Mel Loves Marie
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1979
Mel gives a big engagement ring to his girlfriend Marie, but the sparkle quickly fades when he insists that she sign a premarital agreement.
#14 - Vera, the Vamp
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/16/1980
Heartbroken over her boy friend's sudden lack of attention, Vera begs Belle to transform her into a sex goddess.
#15 - Profit Without Honor
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/23/1980
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.
#16 - Flo's Chili Reception
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1979
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.""
#17 - Little Alice Bluenose
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1979
Vera's boyfriend objects to her sketching nude males in art class.
#18 - Mel's in the Kitchen With Dinah
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1979
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.
#19 - My Cousin, Art Carney
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1979
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.
#20 - Alice Beats the Clock
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/27/1980
Mel installs a time clock which prompts the waitresses to demand overtime for the Sunday cleanup they used to do for nothing.
#21 - 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.
#22 - My Funny Valentine Tux
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1980
Tommy has his heart set on taking his girl to a formal Valentine's dance and he needs a tuxedo.
#23 - 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.
#24 - For Whom the Belle Toils
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/2/1980
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.