Alice

Alice was a television sitcom series which ran from August 31, 1976 to July 2, 1985 on CBS. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son, Tommy, to start her life over again. She finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona called Mel's Diner. Alice works alongside Mel Sharples (Vic Tayback), the grouchy, stingy owner and cook of the greasy spoon, and fellow waitresses and friends, sassy, man-hungry Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry (Polly Holliday), and neurotic, scatterbrained Vera Louise Gorman (Beth Howland).