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Flamingo Diner has always been a friendly place where everyone knows your name. Unfortunately, in the small town of Winter Cove, Florida, it is also the place where everyone knows everything about you. As a teenager, Emma Killian didn't recognize what a remarkable business her family had created, and so she moved away.

When Trixie Matkowski agrees to take over her aunt's diner, she pictures lakeside views and delicious comfort food in the small town where she spent summers as a child. But the sweet scene turns sour when someone puts murder on the menu. Trixie is in need of a fresh start away from her cheating ex-husband, but she may be biting off more than she can chew when she moves to upstate New York to run her family's famed Silver Bullet Diner. Not only is...

Situations found in this twenty-four-episode collection include used "Car wars" between the girls and Mel, Vera coming down with "A slight case of ESP" and "Flo finds her father", (played by F Troop great Forrest Tucker!). Meanwhile Tommy falls in love, Alice falls for a (younger!) theatre director and, most horrifying of all; Mel sells the diner! And keep your eyes peeled for Philip McKeon's sister Nancy (Facts of life) playing a young orphan alongside...

It is another busy day at the diner as Stanley cooks, prepares for a special event, and finally cleans up and goes home.

"Summer has come to Elkview, Alaska, bringing twenty hours of sunlight every day and an influx of tourists from all over the world. When one of the guests at Jensen's Elkview Inn says her cousin Liam, a local fisherman, has disappeared, Annie Jensen knows just who to reel in to investigate: her best friend, owner of the Bear Claw Diner and amateur sleuth, Charlie Cooke. As Charlie dives into the search, she quickly realises there's something fishy...

The (guest) stars shine bright on Alice's seventh season. Joel Grey saves the day when Mel takes over as producer of a local show after Alice lands the lead. Tommy has moved out to attend Arizona State College on a basketball scholarship. A crisis of confidence threatens to derail his collegiate dreams, so Alice drafts Meadowlark Lemon to give Tommy a much-needed pep talk.

"Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique-comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They're high culture, they're low culture, they're sports food, they're kids' food, they're...

The fourth season of Alice saw some big changes coming to the staff of the diner. Flo departs for her own spin-off partway through the season. Mel's old flame arrives in her place.

"Five spooky mysteries with Scooby, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred!"--

"From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, an exuberant and poignant new novel of passions, family, and forgiveness. When a late life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne, the owner of the Pink Slipper Gentleman's Club, and Miss Beatrice Jordan, famous for stationing herself at the edge of the club's parking lot and yelling warnings of eternal damnation at the departing patrons, their wedding summons a legend...