TV series Alice

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TV series Alice is an American sitcom that aired from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, following a widowed waitress and her coworkers at a roadside diner, adapted from the film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore."

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instanceOf American sitcom
television series
adaptationOf Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
surface form: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (film)
basedOn Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
surface form: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (film)
cameraSetup multi-camera
character Alice Hyatt
Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry
Jolene Hunnicutt
Mel Sharples
Tommy Hyatt
Vera Louise Gorman
characterOccupation waitress
characterStatus widow
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Robert Getchell
developer Robert Getchell
distributor Warner Bros. Television
endYear 1985
executiveProducer Robert Getchell
Thomas W. Sarnoff
firstAired 1976-08-31
genre comedy
sitcom
inspiredBy Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
surface form: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (film)
lastAired 1985-03-19
leadCharacter Alice Hyatt
mainSetting Mel’s Diner
surface form: Mel's Diner
notableCatchphrase Kiss my grits!
numberOfEpisodes 202
numberOfSeasons 9
originalChannel CBS
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork CBS
pictureFormat color
plotSummary Follows a widowed mother working as a waitress at a roadside diner and her coworkers and friends.
productionCompany Warner Bros. Television
protagonist Alice Hyatt
settingLocation Phoenix, Arizona
spinOff Flo (TV series)
starring Beth Howland
Celia Weston
Diane Ladd
Linda Lavin
Philip McKeon
Polly Holliday
Vic Tayback
startYear 1976
timePeriodOfSetting early 1980s
late 1970s
typicalRuntimePerEpisode 24 minutes

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Robert Getchell inspired TV series Alice
this entity surface form: Alice (TV series)