Television: After Alice

FLO

March 24, CBS, 9:30p.m. E.S.T.

The TV schedule often reads like the Book of Genesis—or the Daily Racing Form. Happy Days begat Laverne & Shirley; Dallas begat Knot's Landing; Soap begat Benson. Now Alice has begat Flo. Polly Holliday has left Mel's Diner in Phoenix to open up her own bar, Flo's Yellow Rose, in her old home town, Cowtown, Texas.

As Holliday plays her, Flo is television's Mae West: sex is the one thing she has on her mind, but, as she talks about it, in her barbecued accent, it is funny as...

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