Alice

Alice is a CBS sitcom starring Linda Lavin as a widowed mother who takes a job as a waitress while trying to make a new life for herself. Alice was content with her life in New Jersey. Her husband, Donald, made pretty good money driving trucks and she looked after their son, Tommy. After Donald is suddenly killed in an accident, Alice becomes a single parent with a lot of responsibility. Alice eventually comes to see new opportunity arise from her husband’s terrible death, and she decides to move to Los Angeles to pursue a singing career. She almost makes it there when her car breaks down in Arizona, and without the money to fix it she decides to stick around for a while. She finds a job at Mel’s Diner, a roadside restaurant full of colorful characters. While it may not be what she wanted, her new life just might work out all right. Alice co-stars Polly Holiday as the loveable and self-assured waitress Flo, who went on to get her own spin-off series after four successful seasons on Alice. MORE