Mel is receptive to an infatuated tour guide, as long as she keeps steering tourists into his diner.

Heartbroken over her boy friend’s sudden lack of attention, Vera begs Belle to transform her into a sex goddess.

Mel signs a profit-sharing agreement with the girls just before learning he’ll get a tidy sum for letting the city condemn his property.

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

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

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…

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

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

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home…

Mel is delighted that his mother is planning to remarry until he meets his prospective stepfather.

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

Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees…

Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation…

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

Tommy stirs up trouble by candidly discussing his elders on a TV talk show.

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.

Vera asks Art Carney, a sixth cousin on her father’s side, to endorse Mel’s chili, so it can be marketed frozen as Chili con Carney.

Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn’t work….

The return of Mel’s domineering mother does nothing for his ego because after his back goes out, the customers flock in, for his mother’s cooking.

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

Things get hotter than Mel’s chili when Dinah Shore invites Mel to prepare his recipe on her show and bring along one, but only one waitress.

Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his…

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…

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

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

When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.

Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.

During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women’s internment camp in France.

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

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.

Acclaimed as “”brilliant”” in her role as Cinderella, Vera is asked to audition for a part in a supermarket commercial.

Alice tries to bridge the rift between Flo and her father, who is now sorry for deserting the family when she was a little girl.

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

Unable to buy back his diner from the new restaurateur, Mel opens an eatery in Alice’s apartment.

Alice’s long-awaited break, a chance to fill a vacancy in a traveling trio will break her heart if she has to hit the road without Tommy.

Mel tells the girls to “”stow it”” for the last time, then sells the diner to a humorless martinet.

Vera is heartbroken after her boyfriend tells her that he’s marrying someone else.

Mel’s pushy mother winters nearby, and Mel’s not sure that he’ll make it to spring.