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Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot
31 August 1976Alice works at Mel's Diner with Flo and Vera. A talent agent comes to town and Alice is hoping for a big break.
29 September 1976Alice receives a pass from an ex-football player.
6 October 1976The beneficiary of her late husband's will pays a visit to Alice.
13 October 1976Alice is mistakenly arrested for prostitution.
20 October 1976An obscene phone caller has Alice considering getting a gun.
27 October 1976A food critic eats at Mel's Diner and dies.
6 November 1976Alice finds a picture of a naked woman in her son's wallet.
13 November 1976Flo's new man makes a pass at Alice.
20 November 1976Flo and Alice struggle with Vera and her sleeping pills.
27 November 1976An old boyfriend of Alice's wants her to marry him.
4 December 1976Tommy has a change of heart after a hunting trip.
11 December 1976Alice's mother-in-law wants to take up permanent residence in Phoenix.
18 December 1976Alice's mother-in-law wants to take up permanent residence in Phoenix.
25 December 1976Vera's new boyfriend is Jerry, a mortician 20 years her senior. But Alice - already creeped out by Jerry's profession - suspects that he hasn't told naive Vera everything about his personal life.
15 January 1977A young woman from New Jersey has stolen Mel's heart.
22 January 1977Flo totals Mel's car after he entrusts it to the girls while he is away.
29 January 1977After a botched robbery, the crook thinks that he is a failure.
Season 1, Episode 18: The Hex
5 February 1977A gypsy puts a curse on Mel's Diner.
12 February 1977Alice's deceased husband may have never paid his taxes.
26 February 1977Flo bunks with Alice after her trailer is stolen.
5 March 1977Alice and Flo try some matchmaking with Vera.
Season 1, Episode 22: Mel's Cup
12 March 1977Mel's trophy is accidentally sent to a rummage sale.
Season 1, Episode 23: The Bundle
19 March 1977After a bag of money is found at the diner, Alice is the only one interested in returning it.
26 March 1977Mel is making a television commercial with Alice.
2 October 1977Flo's third husband shows up at the diner.
9 October 1977An Indian claims that Mel's Diner is on sacred Indian ground.
23 October 1977When a new waiter is making more than the waitresses, they quit.
30 October 1977Singing in a nightclub in addition to her day job may be too much for Alice.
6 November 1977The girls stop by a new singles bar.
13 November 1977One of the customers at the diner may be a famous gangster.
4 December 1977Mel's back has gone bad and he can't be moved from Alice's apartment.
11 December 1977After attending an out-of-town game, Flo and Mel and getting along very well.
18 December 1977The gang is snowbound on their way to an out-of-town Christmas.
1 January 1978George Burns stops by Mel's Diner for a meal. Later Vera who has seen the Oh God! movie goes to his hotel room ready to follow him as his disciple since she really believes that he is God.
8 January 1978There is no way that Flo is getting glasses even though she obviously needs them.
15 January 1978A high schooler has a crush on Alice.
22 January 1978Little grips are causing big problems at Mel's Diner.
29 January 1978A protest against food additives could be fatal at Mel's Diner.
5 February 1978Alice is going out with Flo's cowboy brother.
19 February 1978An Arab sheik has taken to Flo who would be his fourth wife.
26 February 1978Alice plays marriage counselor for a Cuban and his wife.
5 March 1978Mel SAYS that he doesn't want a 50th birthday party.
12 March 1978Someone is stealing food and making long distance phone calls at Mel's Diner.
19 March 1978Flo knows Jerry Reed and everyone wants tickets to his concert.
2 April 1978Mel considers cutting back on the staff.
Season 2, Episode 22: Earthquake
9 April 1978An Indian predicts an earthquake in Phoenix.
1977A reporter is hiding out at Mel's Diner.
Season 2, Episode 24: The Bus
1977A bus-load stops by Mel's Diner.
24 September 1978Mel bets that he can raise Tommy better than Alice.
Season 3, Episode 2: Car Wars
1 October 1978Alice and company buy Mel's car.
8 October 1978Mel identifies a crook for the police who is known to rough up witnesses against him.
15 October 1978Vera meets someone at the movies that she doesn't want the others to meet.
22 October 1978Everyone at Mel's Diner is on a habit breaking kick.
29 October 1978Flo loves to party, but its hurting her night classes.
5 November 1978Mel's Diner is robbed with Alice at the register and Mel sleeping in the storeroom.
11 November 1978Mel thinks Alice's dinner invitation is more than just a family meal.
19 November 1978The turkeys Mel bought are hot even before they're put in the oven.
26 November 1978Alice's second job is making her late.
3 December 1978Vera seems to be psychic and Mel wants to use that ability.
10 December 1978Alice is dating Tommy's principal much to his annoyance.
31 December 1978Can Flo really be without a date on New Year's Eve?
14 January 1979Alice has extra tickets to a celebrity ball and no end of interested parties.
21 January 1979Flo and Mel's brother think about getting hitched; marriage number four for each.
28 January 1979Tommy is in love and using the phone way too much.
5 February 1979Mel's mother is spending the winter in Phoenix. OOH BBBOY! It's Martha Raye!
18 February 1979Vera's boyfriend is getting married to someone else.
25 February 1979Alice has an offer to sing on the road, but what can she do with Tommy?
11 March 1979Mel wants to take it easy, so he sells out to no-nonsense restaurateur Randolph Briggs. When the girls begin to protest his overbearing ways, he fires each of them, one by one.
11 March 1979When humorless restaurateur Randolph Briggs refuses Mel's offer to buy back the diner, he opens an eatery in Alice's apartment. Alice decides that she needs to help Mel get his diner back.
18 March 1979Alice and Vera are up for the same part in a play.
25 March 1979Vera is being cast in a local commercial.
1 April 1979Alice tries to bring Flo and her father together.
23 September 1979No one believes Vera when she tells them that Telly Savalas stopped by.
30 September 1979Mel wants his waitresses to smile or else the meal is on the house just when Alice is very unhappy.
7 October 1979Mel gets engaged, but wants his fiancée, Marie, to sign a prenuptial.
21 October 1979Tommy falls for has dance instructor Vera.
28 October 1979Mel thinks that Flo's boyfriend is after his Texas chili recipe.
4 November 1979Vera's boyfriend objects to her nude art classes.
11 November 1979Mel's mother is cooking at the diner and the customers roll in.
18 November 1979Mel is preparing his chili on Dinah Shore's show, but can only bring one waitress.
2 December 1979The gang and Mel's girlfriend are packed into a cabin on a fishing weekend.
9 December 1979Vera is Art Carney's cousin and she gets him to endorse Mel's chili.
23 December 1979It's Christmas and the gang is preparing Christmas dinner at the diner with meager resources.
6 January 1980In the first show broadcast in the 1980's, Flo is dating a big rig trucker named Sy. When she finds out that he's taken on a young, female driving partner,she becomes jealous. She then asks Alice to teach her how to drive a semi-truck. Alice's late husband was a driver as well. Along with Vera, they pile into Sy's rig while he and his partner are in Mel's eating. What follows is a very funny driving lesson, Flo honking and yelling out the window at guys and then the big finish. When returning to Mel's diner, Flo goes to step on the break but instead hits the gas pedal! The semi plows straight through the front of Mel's Diner! The audience loved it, as did I, it's my favorite of the whole series.
13 January 1980Tommy gossips about Mel's Diner on television.
27 January 1980Mel puts in a time clock so now the waitresses want overtime.
3 February 1980Mel's mother is getting remarried, but Mel is not happy about the groom.
10 February 1980Tommy needs a tux for a school dance.
17 February 1980Mel takes in a friend who's wife just left him.
24 February 1980Flo gets a wonderful job offer in Houston and says goodbye to Mel's Diner.
2 March 1980Mel hires former waitress Belle who wants to be a country song writer.
9 March 1980Belle is just too friendly with Mel and Alice and Vera aren't happy about it.
16 March 1980Vera asks Belle to make her more appealing to men.
23 March 1980Mel starts a profit sharing plan until he learns how much he might get for the diner.
30 March 1980Mel is giving a tour guide a lot of attention as long as her buses keep stopping at his place.
6 April 1980Alice bets Mel that if he takes in Tommy, he'll kick him out. Mel is sure that Alice will be snooping just to check up on him.
2 November 1980Mel is delighted when an ATM gives him $24,000.
9 November 1980Mel buys two guard dogs after he is robbed.
16 November 1980The gang follows Vera to Las Vegas after she wins a trip.
16 November 1980After Mel loses the diner, the casino owner will let him keep it if he can get Robert Goulet to sing at his club. When Mel can't get him, Alice does her best to do him.
23 November 1980Vera's aunt rides in on her motorcycle on her way to Mexico and Vera wants to leave with her.
30 November 1980Mel is giving Tommy advice on how to deal with a local bully.
7 December 1980Mel doesn't want to go like his friend who had no mourners at his funeral, so he turns into a nice guy.
21 December 1980Mel's mother shows up after her new husband left her.
4 January 1981When Henry's wife starts being nice to him, he thinks she is having an affair. Now he claims he's having one with Alice.
11 January 1981Alice is managing her apartment building and Belle isn't paying her rent.
18 January 1981Vera wants to save the old tree in front of Mel's Diner.
1 February 1981When a fish won't fit in the freezer, the waitresses cut it up unaware that is was left by Jerry Reed to be stuffed.
8 February 1981Mel is getting into verbal arguments with Vera's parrot.
15 February 1981Tommy is cutting classes to sing at a saloon.
22 February 1981When Mel won't let his mother cook, she goes to work for a competitor.
8 March 1981Mel is mugged by a little old lady who suddenly becomes four armed crooks.
15 March 1981A trucker stops at Mel's and tells his female partner to hit the road without him.
29 March 1981Alice is singing forties tunes at a big banquet and hopes that this is her big break.
5 April 1981Mel is showing interest in Vera, but its just to make his girlfriend jealous.
3 May 1981Vera finds a baby and wants to keep it.
4 October 1981Mel borrows ten grand for a 90 to 1 shot on a horse.
11 October 1981Vera makes plans to set the world's record for tap dancing.
18 October 1981A refugee from the Russian ballet hides in Mel's storeroom.
25 October 1981Alice has her boyfriend's four kids for treat or treating on Halloween.
8 November 1981On Alice's 40th birthday she gets a visit from her meddlesome mother.
15 November 1981Mel gives his shy cousin pointers on going out with Vera.
29 November 1981Vera cashes a check for an old boyfriend that bounces.
6 December 1981Mel is worried that he has no heirs or line to pass things on to.
20 December 1981On Christmas Eve Mel is haunted by a former partner after he fires the waitresses.
27 December 1981A biker wants Alice to hit the road with him.
3 January 1982Alice wants Tommy to cut out the basketball when his grades suffer.
17 January 1982Mel gives Tommy romantic advice and then he uses it on his niece.
31 January 1982Vera gets an addiction to soap operas and her work suffers.
7 February 1982Mel's mother plans to publish his secret chili recipe in her cookbook.
14 February 1982The girls are all quarreling with their Valentine's Day dates.
21 February 1982Vera decides to become the world's best waitress and then Mel leaves her in charge of the diner.
7 March 1982An old friend of Alice's visits who has an inferiority complex.
14 March 1982The girls help Jolene's buddy drive his rig unaware that it contains dynamite.
21 March 1982Mel is considering plastic surgery on his nose.
4 April 1982An actress friend from New York wants Tommy to head to Broadway with her.
11 April 1982After a high school reunion, Vera returns with an engagement ring on her finger.
18 April 1982After Alice spurns a suitor, he threatens to jump from the Mel's Diner sign.
2 May 1982In response to a competitor, Mel runs a contest with a $3000 prize.
16 May 1982Mel's mother buys his apartment building. Mel thinks he'll get his rent free and he ends up with an increase.
6 October 1982Mel thinks he is responsible for the best kiss a famous actress ever had as described in her memoirs.
13 October 1982Competition abounds when an old buddy of Mel's shows up.
20 October 1982Mel thinks there's money stashed in his diner by the builder of his building.
27 October 1982Joel Grey offers to be in a local musical, but Mel casts his bookie.
3 November 1982Joel Grey walks out when the theme of the musical changes from New York to Arizona with songs to match.
10 November 1982Alice's Thanksgiving dinner is ruined by her mother.
9 January 1983Mel's mother is depressed about her divorce.
16 January 1983Jolene is not happy about her visiting brother.
28 February 1983Did Alice really see a real UFO?
7 March 1983Vera is asked to play the cello in a local string quartet.
14 March 1983Mel's Diner versus three plumbers on a quiz show.
21 March 1983Alice is worried that Tommy is spending too much time on his extra curricular activities while away at college.
28 March 1983Jolene can't let down a guy who thinks that she is her girl.
11 April 1983Mel purchases a Porsche for only twenty bucks.
17 April 1983Mel gives up and retreats to his apartment consuming nothing but beer and pizza.
24 April 1983Vera is angry at her landlady for evicting her pets. She wishes her ill and then she has an apartment fire.
1 May 1983Mel joins a catering firm and the girls buy the diner.
15 May 1983Tommy gives up and quits the basketball team.
22 May 1983Mel wants to have the waitresses bonded, so Vera runs away after admitting her criminal past.
29 May 1983Mel has his cousin get a job at a competitor's restaurant to get their secret sauce recipe.
5 June 1983Using Mel's new computer, Versa accidentally erases Mel's total existence.
12 June 1983Tommy's business advice increases Mel's business, but heads him into bankruptcy.
18 September 1983A burglar is going around Jolene's neighborhood and she is scared.
2 October 1983Boss Hogg and Enos (The Dukes of Hazzard) make Mel an offer he can't refuse.
9 October 1983
16 October 1983Jolene is now a part-time stewardess.
23 October 1983Alice accepts a date from an old friend who is now blind.
30 October 1983A famous singer stops by Mel's Diner and ends up proposing to Mel.
6 November 1983Alice and Carrie don't get local singing jobs because they are considered too old.
20 November 1983Vera finds love with the policeman who ticketed her for jaywalking.
20 November 1983Vera has a whirlwind courtship and wedding with her policeman fiancee.
18 December 1983
25 December 1983
1 January 1984
8 January 1984Vera takes up the cause of an abused miniature horse.
15 January 1984Jolene doesn't want to pitch on Mel's softball team.
29 January 1984Mel's mother finally confesses that his dog was not a war hero.
12 February 1984Alice's dentist falls in love with her.
4 March 1984Alice has to deal with a sexist balloonist.
11 March 1984After one good day at the track, Tommy decides to become a professional gambler.
18 March 1984Vera's landlady wants to prove she's a better cook than Mel.
25 March 1984Vera plans to rescue the bird's nest from Mel's sign before Mel gets rid of it.
1 April 1984Jolene is stuck on Mel though being glued together is more like it.
15 April 1984Vera and Elliot receive a piano and Elliot won't stop playing it.
13 May 1984Mel's prejudice against the handicapped is tested when he is confined to a wheelchair.
20 May 1984Vera and Elliot buy a house.
14 October 1984The girls place a personal ad to get Alice a date.
28 October 1984Mel stops a bank robbery dressed as a superhero for Halloween.
4 November 1984Mel wants to tear down a day school to build a parking lot.
18 November 1984Jolene has family overload when seven of them take up residence in her one bedroom apartment.
25 November 1984Alice suspects that Tommy is developing a drinking problem.
16 December 1984Mel has gone undercover to stop some beef rustlers and collect the reward.
23 December 1984Mel throws out a bunch of break dancers whom he thinks are nothing but a gang of hoodlums.
8 January 1985Vera and Elliot's romantic first anniversary celebration is a bust.
15 January 1985A television appearance by Jolene doesn't help business at Mel's Diner.
22 January 1985In her second job as a night DJ, Vera is taking Phoenix by storm.
29 January 1985Alice gets an offer to sing with a country music group.
5 February 1985Alice gets an offer to sing with a country music group.
6 February 1985Vera's landlady tries to horn in on her and Elliot's lives.
Season 9, Episode 14: One on One
5 March 1985Jolene has Mel as a trainer to get on a professional basketball team.
12 March 1985A shooting accident has Vera's husband looking for another profession.
19 March 1985On the last show the gang reminisces before closing up Mel's Diner.
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