Alice

When Alice's (LINDA LAVIN) love life seems to be in a slump, Jolene (CELIA WESTON) and Vera (BETH HOWLAND) attempt to help by placing a personals ad for her in a local magazine.

Halloween brings out the superhero in Mel (VIC TAYBACK) when he dresses as Captain Galaxy and wards off a real-life bank robber (DAN GILVEZAN).

Cries of protest do no good when Mel (VIC TAYBACK) buys a nursery school so that he can tear it down and create a parking lot for his customers.

When Jolene's (CELIA WESTON) family members come to Phoenix for a visit and overstay their welcome, Mel (VIC TAYBACK) intervenes, causing Jolene to be disowned by her father.

Tommy's partying in college causes concern for Alice and real problems for her boyfriend, Nick, after Tommy gets so drunk that he forgets where he left Nick's expensive sports car.

Alice (LINDA LAVIN), Vera (BETH HOWLAND) and Jolene try to save Mel (VIC TAYBACK) from being arrested when he goes undercover to help Elliot apprehend a gang of cattle rustlers.

Mel (VIC TAYBACK) volunteers the use of his diner for a performance by a dance group, only to oust the entertainers when he mistakes them for hoodlums.

To celebrate their first wedding anniversary, Vera and Elliot (BETH HOWLAND and CHARLES LEVIN) plan to reconstruct the day they met, but their plans fall apart when Vera is arrested.

When a fast-food hamburger restaurant opens down the street, Mel's (VIC TAYBACK) customers flock to the new eatery, and Mel is forced to close his diner.

Mel falls hopelessly in love with the sultry voice of nighttime radio disc jockey Nightbird, not realizing it's Vera, who's moonlighting so she can buy a special present for her husband.

A famous country music performer (KIP NIVEN) falls in love with Alice (LINDA LAVIN) and, after hearing her sing, invites her to join him on the road. First of a two-part episode.

While a country singer and a writer simultaneously vie for Alice's (LINDA LAVIN) affections, the gang at the diner fears she has been kidnapped. Second of a two-part episode.

Vera and Elliot seek a for their spare room, only to have the room rented by their onetime landlady, Debbie Walden, a certified tyrant, who all but drives them from their little love nest.

A romantic relationship unexpectedly develops when Jolene (CELIA WESTON) decides to try out for a women's professional basketball team, and Mel (VIC TAYBACK) offers to be her trainer.

Elliot (CHARLES LEVIN), Vera's (BETH HOWLAND) police officer husband, is so ashamed of accidentally shooting himself that he quits his job.

When Mel sells his diner to a land developer, he, Alice, Vera, Tommy, Jolene and the diner's customers reflect the good times and bad, and how the diner its family has affected their lives.