A loving tribute to the memory of America's most beloved sitcom, and the most talented cast ever to grace our television screens.

Alice was one of my favorite TV series when I was growing up in suburban California. I loved all the characters, and the humor was emminently preferable to the cliche ridden dreck of “Happy Days” and that ilk. It seemed familar yet different, friendly and welcoming. I wanted Alice to be my mother. I wanted to live in Phoenix, Arizona. I created this tribe to find other folks who appreciated the tv show as much as I did, and still do.

Alice was the story of Alice Hyatt, a nightclub singer and dancer from Jersey who kills her mobster husband George after learning that he is really a paid informant for the FBI’s X-File division, and had been secretly tracking a suspected extra-terrestrial that had assumed the form of a labrador in the home of mob king-pin, Howarth "Howie" Viscount (played by a heavily made-up Vic Taybak in one of his many dual roles in the series). When the labrador realises his cover is blown, he assumes the form of underworld siren Victoria Payne and seduces George in one of 1970’s television's most risque moments. Unfortunately for George, Howie returns from Fiji unexpectedly with Alice in tow, and they catch George and “Dody” (now in labrador form again) inflagrante, the culminanation of what critics agree are the funniest six minutes in television history. I wont spoil the scene ending, but the pilot episode ends with George dead and Alice on the run, escaping incognito to Arizona with her son, Tommy.

“Alice”, starred Linda Lavin, Victor Taybak, Polly Holliday, and Beth Howland. Also featuring Phillip McKeon, Dianne Ladd, Celia Weston. Notable guest stars include George Burns who plays a notorious “chicken hawk” (pedophile) who tries to seduce Tommy, Faith and the Muse’s Monica Richards (before her band became famous) as a Wiccan who gets burned alive by an angry mob led my Mel, and Timothy Leary playing himself in an episode which almost got the series booted off the air for “promoting Drug Use” during the depths of the Reagan “War On Drugs”, but which nevertheless gave us this classic exchange;

Mel: What did you do to my customers?! They’re all trippin’! Are you trying to ruin me?
Tim Leary: I’ve opened the doors of their perception, their lives will never be the same.
Flo: That wont be the first time that's happened folks who order his rhubarb pie!
Mel: Aaaaugh! Who's that looking back at me from my bell???

When the White House pressured CBS to cancel the show, legions of fans stormed Washington and CBS headquartes in New York, what would later be referred to as "Alice’s Army." CBS did not cancel the show, but did burn all copies of the episode and script and never re-played it, and indeed they continue to deny it ever existed.

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