The WORST episodes of Alice
Every episode of Alice ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Carrie Sings the Blues
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/21/1980
Mel's mother is singing the blues because her husband of six months has just left her.
#2 - Alice Calls the Shots
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/3/1982
Alice blows the whistle on Tommy's basketball playing when his grades start to slip.
#3 - The Wild One
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/27/1981
Alice's spirit inspires a biker to recruit her as his ""old lady.""
#4 - Mel's Christmas Carol
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/20/1981
The ghost of a partner past gives Mel the dickens on Christmas Eve after Mel fired Alice, Jolene and Vera.
#5 - Vera's Bouncing Check
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/29/1981
Against Mel's orders, Vera cashes a check for an old flame, who's nowhere to be found when it bounces.
#6 - Mel's Cousin, Wendell
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/1981
Smooth operator Mel teaches his shy cousin, Wendell, how to score with Vera.
#7 - Alice's Big Four-Oh!
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/8/1981
It's Alice's 40th birthday, and for the milestone she gets a millstone, a visit from her meddling mother.
#8 - Alice's Halloween Surprise
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1981
On Halloween, Alice's latest heartthrob asks her to shepherd his four kids for the evening.
#9 - Comrade Mel
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1981
A towel boy from the Russian ballet takes refuge in Mel's storeroom.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Macho, Macho Mel
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/8/1981
When, Mel recounts the story of the little old lady who mugged him, the old lady becomes four thugs.
#12 - The Jerry Reed Fish Story
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/1/1981
The waitresses cut up a huge fish they find in the refrigerator, unaware that singer Jerry Reed had left it there until he could have it stuffed.
#13 - Vera Goes Out On a Limb
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/18/1981
Vera goes out on a limb to save a century old tree in front of the diner from being cut down for a road-widening project.
#14 - Alice Locks Belle Out
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/11/1981
As the new manager of her apartment building, Alice has the unenviable task of locking out a delinquent fellow tenant, Belle.
#15 - Henry's Bitter Half
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/4/1981
Henry's convinced that his wife of 20 years is suddenly being nice because she's having an affair, so he tells her he's having one too, with Alice.
#16 - Space Sharples
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/28/1984
Mel gets a little spaced out after he thwarts a bank robbery while he's dressed up as Captain Galaxy for Halloween.
#17 - The New Improved Mel
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/7/1980
The sparsely attended funeral of a buddy persuade Mel to become Mr. Nice Guy and ensure a decent turnout at his own burial.
#18 - Vera's Aunt Agatha
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/23/1980
Vera's Aunt Agatha, a freewheeling sexagenarian, makes a pit stop in Phoenix while motorcycling to Mexico. This prompts Vera to make a life altering decision, whether or not to ride off into the sunset with her aunt.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.