A Native American who claims Mel's diner is built on sacred ground refuses to leave.

Mel incites his waitresses to quit by giving a new waiter better wages than theirs.

Alice and friends are snowbound en route to her cousin's for Christmas.

When George Burns stops into Mel's, Vera believes that he's actually the Deity he played in the movie Oh, God!

An amorous high-school basketball star starts putting the moves on Alice.

Because she once baby-sat Jerry Reed, Flo is hounded for tickets to the singer's concert. Jerry plays himself.

Mel and the staff prepare for a bus load of hungry customers.

Flo finds herself without a date on New Year's Eve.

Alice and Vera vie for a role in a production being cast by an attractive director(Fred McCarren).

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.

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.

Mel gives a big engagement ring to his girlfriend Marie, but the sparkle quickly fades when he insists that she sign a premarital agreement.

Just one dance lesson and Tommy falls head over heels for his instructor, Vera.

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.""

Vera's boyfriend objects to her sketching nude males in art class.

Mel, his girlfriend and the waitresses spend the weekend packed like sardines in a fishing cabin.

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.

Flo takes the wheel herself when she learns that her trucker beau has a female partner.

Mel installs a time clock which prompts the waitresses to demand overtime for the Sunday cleanup they used to do for nothing.

Tommy has his heart set on taking his girl to a formal Valentine's dance and he needs a tuxedo.

Mel plays host to a buddy whose wife has just left him.

A wealthy Houston restaurateur offers Flo a job she finds hard to refuse.

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.

The new waitress Belle is making big points with her old boss Mel, but she's scoring zero with Alice and Vera.

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.

After his safe is stolen, Mel rents the services of two very efficient guard dogs.

Robert Goulet makes an appearance when Vera wins a free trip to Las Vegas and Alice, Mel and Belle tag along to try their luck.

Mel may get his diner back if Belle can get Robert Goulet to perform for a Las Vegas casino owner but when it seems she can't get him, Alice steps in and impersonates him.

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.

Against Alce's expressed wishes, Mel secretly teaches Tommy how to take care of a school bully.

The sparsely attended funeral of a buddy persuade Mel to become Mr. Nice Guy and ensure a decent turnout at his own burial.

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.

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.

Mel gets into a nose-to-beak yelling match with Vera's new pet parrot.

Tommy is cutting classes to pursue a singing career and his first job is singing at a juice saloon.

During a visit, Carrie plans to help out at the diner and cook but a fed up Mel kicks her out and she goes to work for a competitor.

When, Mel recounts the story of the little old lady who mugged him, the old lady becomes four thugs.

A trucker chooses Mel's Diner as the place to tell her amorous driving partner to hit the road.

Alice thinks she has found her main chance when she lands a gig singing at a big banquet with a 1940's theme and an influential audience of restaurant owners.

Mel suddenly takes a romantic interest in Vera, who doesn't realize it's just a ploy to make his girlfriend, Marie, jealous.

Determined to leave her mark on the world, Vera sets out to break the tap dancing endurance record.

A towel boy from the Russian ballet takes refuge in Mel's storeroom.

On Halloween, Alice's latest heartthrob asks her to shepherd his four kids for the evening.

It's Alice's 40th birthday, and for the milestone she gets a millstone, a visit from her meddling mother.

Smooth operator Mel teaches his shy cousin, Wendell, how to score with Vera.

Against Mel's orders, Vera cashes a check for an old flame, who's nowhere to be found when it bounces.

The ghost of a partner past gives Mel the dickens on Christmas Eve after Mel fired Alice, Jolene and Vera.

Alice's spirit inspires a biker to recruit her as his ""old lady.""

Alice blows the whistle on Tommy's basketball playing when his grades start to slip.

After getting hooked on soap operas, Vera becomes a washout at work and later quits.

Alice is visited by a high-school chum who's still suffering from her teenage inferiority complex.

To help Jolene's exhausted good buddy, the girls drive his rig to a mining town, blissfully unaware that they're hauling dynamite.

Mel considers getting a nose job while undergoing surgery for a deviated septum.

A jilted acquaintance flips for Alice on the first bounce and when she doesn't reciprocate his feelings he threatens to jump from the Mel's Diner sign.

To counter a competitor whose contest is drawing customers, Mel launches one too and ups the ante to $3000.

Mel happily envisions a rent-free future when his mother buys his apartment building but surprises him when she announces a $50 rent increase.

There's gold in them there walls, or so Mel reckons after learning that the eccentric who built his diner left $20,000 stashed in another building.

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.""

Carrie is slow to come out of a depression after a quickie divorce.

Everyone takes with a grain of salt Alice's claim that she saw a UFO.

The waitresses pit their musical knowledge against that of three plumbers on a TV quiz show.

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.

Afraid that he's lost the ""right stuff,"" Tommy quits the basketball team.

After Mel decides to have the waitresses bonded, Vera owns up to a criminal past and takes it on the lam.

A secret lover is sending Vera everything from poems to balloons.

Everyone's up in the air over Jolene's maiden flight as a part-time stewardess.

A popular singer stops for directions at the diner and ends up proposing to Mel.

Who would have thought Vera would find love in a greasy spoon? Especially with a cop who just ticketed her for jaywalking.

After a whirlwind courtship, Vera walks down the aisle with her intended.

After Alice quits in a huff, Mel replaces her with a very efficient and popular robot named Blanche.

Trophy winner Jolene throws Mel a curve when she won't pitch on his softball team.

After 40 years, Mel learns that his mother lied when she told him his dog was a war hero.

When Alice chips a tooth eating Mel's chili, he sends her to his dentist who takes one look at her X-rays and falls madly in love.

Alice gets a ride but hardly a rise out of a sexist ballonist whose hot air isn't confined to his balloon.

By proving she's a better cook than Mel, Vera's acerbic landlady may have found the elusive way to his heart through his stomach.

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.

A gift piano comes between Vera and Elliot when she can't pry him away from it.

Mel disdains accommodating the handicapped until two sprained ankles give him a different view, from a wheelchair.

Vera and Elliot buy a charming old house that comes complete with fireplace, furniture and antiques one of which is a shocking surprise.

Jolene and Vera play Cupid for a dateless Alice by putting an ad in a magazine's personals column.

Mel gets a little spaced out after he thwarts a bank robbery while he's dressed up as Captain Galaxy for Halloween.

Mel gets an F for buying a day school to raze for a parking lot.

Alice is worried that Tommy's partying is leading to a serious drinking problem.

At Elliot's suggestion and lured by a $5000 reward, Mel goes undercover to smoke out rustlers selling stolen beef.

After getting shot accidentally with his own gun, Elliot quits the force and looks for a career more suited to his meager talents.