Episode 1
Mel and the Green Machine
1980-11-02 • 30 min
An automated bank teller accidentally spews out $24,675 to an astonished but delighted Mel.
TV season
1980-11-02
Episode 1
1980-11-02 • 30 min
An automated bank teller accidentally spews out $24,675 to an astonished but delighted Mel.
Episode 2
1980-11-09 • 30 min
After his safe is stolen, Mel rents the services of two very efficient guard dogs.
Episode 3
1980-11-16 • 30 min
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.
Episode 4
1980-11-16 • 30 min
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.
Episode 5
1980-11-23 • 30 min
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.
Episode 6
1980-11-30 • 30 min
Against Alce's expressed wishes, Mel secretly teaches Tommy how to take care of a school bully.
Episode 7
1980-12-07 • 30 min
The sparsely attended funeral of a buddy persuade Mel to become Mr. Nice Guy and ensure a decent turnout at his own burial.
Episode 8
1980-12-21 • 30 min
Mel's mother is singing the blues because her husband of six months has just left her.
Episode 9
1981-01-04 • 30 min
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.
Episode 10
1981-01-11 • 30 min
As the new manager of her apartment building, Alice has the unenviable task of locking out a delinquent fellow tenant, Belle.
Episode 11
1981-01-18 • 30 min
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.
Episode 12
1981-02-01 • 30 min
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.
Episode 13
1981-02-08 • 30 min
Mel gets into a nose-to-beak yelling match with Vera's new pet parrot.
Episode 14
1981-02-15 • 30 min
Tommy is cutting classes to pursue a singing career and his first job is singing at a juice saloon.
Episode 15
1981-02-22 • 30 min
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.
Episode 16
1981-03-08 • 30 min
When, Mel recounts the story of the little old lady who mugged him, the old lady becomes four thugs.
Episode 17
1981-03-15 • 30 min
A trucker chooses Mel's Diner as the place to tell her amorous driving partner to hit the road.
Episode 18
1981-03-29 • 30 min
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.
Episode 19
1981-04-05 • 30 min
Mel suddenly takes a romantic interest in Vera, who doesn't realize it's just a ploy to make his girlfriend, Marie, jealous.
Episode 20
1981-05-03 • 30 min
Vera refuses to give up the baby girl someone left in her pile of wash at the laundromat.