Kate & Allie
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Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben.
Seasons
1. Allie's First Date
Air Date: 1984-03-19
2. The Very Loud Family
Air Date: 1984-03-26
When the kids are assigned a class project to show ""change"", Emma makes a video on her family.
3. Odd Boy Out
Air Date: 1984-04-16
Allie discovers that Chips friends think hes a sissy because of his background.
4. The Family Business
Air Date: 1984-04-23
When Kate gets a promotion at the travel agency, Allie starts to feel she may have missed out on life.
5. Dear Diary
Air Date: 1984-04-30
Kate's curiosity gets the best of her when she finds a diary which belongs to Allie.
6. A Weekend to Remember
Air Date: 1984-05-07
Allie finds herself alone when Kate goes on a ski trip with her ex-husband and the kids are off doing their own thing.
1. Baby
Air Date: 1984-10-08
Excited about a co-worker's pregnancy, Kate seriously considers having another baby.
2. Landlady
Air Date: 1984-10-15
Kate and Allie face a rent increase when their landlady realizes that there are two families occupying a one-family dwelling.
3. Diner
Air Date: 1984-10-22
Allie finally has someone who wants to buy her house... but, is she willing to sell?
4. Lottsa Luck
Air Date: 1984-10-29
Kate's elderly aunt Ofelia dies, leaving behind a cryptic will
5. Candidate
Air Date: 1984-11-05
Allie offers to be a campaign volunteer to a would-be congressman
6. Kate and the Plumber
Air Date: 1984-11-12
Kate's relationship with plumber Ted runs hot and cold -- the only thing they can agree on is a mutual attraction.
7. The Safe Caper
Air Date: 1984-11-19
After finding a 55-year-old love letter hidden in the wall, Kate and Allie try to rekindle the romance by mailing the letter.
8. Pirates
Air Date: 1984-11-26
When Jennie and Emma vie for the same part in the school production of ""Pirates of Penzance,"" their friendship is tested along with their acting skills.
9. Country Dog
Air Date: 1984-12-03
Chip's birthday causes problems when Charles goes overboard on presents.
10. Piano Lesson
Air Date: 1984-12-10
When Max leaves for L.A., Emma inherits the piano, complete with a handsome piano teacher who soon has the whole family interested in ""music"" — but who strikes a note of discord when he becomes more interested in Kate than in his pupil.
11. New Year's Eve
Air Date: 1984-12-31
Dateless, Kate and Allie spend New Year's Eve at home together.
12. Back to School
Air Date: 1985-01-07
13. Charles Marries Claire
Air Date: 1985-01-14
Allie has new hope of a reconciliation after ex-husband Charles becomes suddenly attentive because he has broken up with girlfriend Clare.
14. If She Goes, I Go
Air Date: 1985-02-04
Despite Kate's doubts about working with her friend, Allie gets a job at Sloan Travel and quickly fouls up so completely that she is fired—whereupon Kate threatens to quit.
15. Rear Window
Air Date: 1985-02-11
Chip's imagination could get him into trouble when he ""witnesses"" a murder from his bedroom window.
16. Lovely Rita
Air Date: 1985-02-18
Guess who's coming to dinner? Kate's potential step-mom. But when Kate takes an instant dislike to her father's fiancée, he calls the engagement off.
17. Sons and Lovers
Air Date: 1985-02-25
Allie begins dating Steven, a cute graduate student, but resists getting serious. Her doubts about age-differences are confirmed when she accidentally meets Steven's mom at his apartment and finds she has more in common with her that with her son.
18. Author, Author
Air Date: 1985-03-04
Kate and Allie's crush on an old college professor is rekindled when each imagines she is the inspiration for his recently published romantic novel.
19. Dead Cat
Air Date: 1985-03-11
Kate brings a stray kitten home.
20. The Bad Seed
Air Date: 1985-03-18
Jenny falls into bad company but finds herself all alone at the police station.
21. Goodbye, Plumber
Air Date: 1985-04-08
Ted proposes to Kate.
22. My Dinner With Kate and Allie
Air Date: 1985-05-06
After Allie's ex Charles remarries and Kate breaks up with Ted, they try to cheer themselves up with a lobster dinner.
1. The Reunion
Air Date: 1985-09-30
Invited to their 20th high school reunion, Kate & Allie both go determined to settle old scores.
2. Make Mine Mink
Air Date: 1985-10-07
Kate "inherits" a lovely mink coat from a lover's quarrel and finds that it changes her lifestyle.
3. Whatever Happened to Romance?
Air Date: 1985-10-14
Allie's advertisement for part-time work ends up in the Personals Column by mistake, and the return mail brings such bizarre responses that she is appalled.
4. Evening in Paris
Air Date: 1985-10-21
On a free trip to Paris, Allie comes down with the flu while Jennie plans a rendezvous with a Frenchman.
5. Picture of An Affair
Air Date: 1985-10-28
Allie receives devastating news about her father.
6. The Maltese Chotchke
Air Date: 1985-11-04
Max sends Emma a mystery for her birthday, and Allie is soon in on it, catching up the family in an exotic world of menacing art dealers and homicidal maniacs.
7. Allie's Affair
Air Date: 1985-11-11
Allie's new professor from Ohio begins visiting on ""academic business"" but their relationship soon heats up, with surprising results.
8. Thanksgiving
Air Date: 1985-11-25
Kate and Allie invite a crowd for Thanksgiving dinner/disaster.
9. Max's New Girlfriend
Air Date: 1985-12-02
Kate is worried that Max's new girlfriend, Darla, is turning Emma's head in a glamorous world of celebrities and premieres.
10. Kate's Friend
Air Date: 1985-12-16
Kate's old friend Betsy visits, and far outstays her welcome.
11. Dress to Kill
Air Date: 1985-12-23
Invited to the Russian Ballet, Kate searches frantically for the perfect dress. She finds it, but it costs more than Kate and Allie's combined monthly salaries.
12. Dark Victory
Air Date: 1986-01-06
Trapped in her dentist's office during a blackout, Kate makes a date with a stranger—and then discovers he's black.
13. Grand Central Station
Air Date: 1986-01-13
A singing telegram provided more information than intended when Kate and Allie referee another family's dispute.
14. Chip's Divorce
Air Date: 1986-01-20
Chip feels he's being replaced when he finds out Charles' girlfriend Claire is pregnant.
15. Too Late The Rebel
Air Date: 1986-01-27
A protest rally gives Allie a taste of what she missed during the '60s, while for Kate it's a march down memory lane.
16. The Croissant Jungle
Air Date: 1986-02-03
Jenny gets more than she bargained for in her new job: a bonus of sexual harassment.
17. Privacy
Air Date: 1986-02-10
Allie jumps to conclusions when she discovers Kate with a former boyfriend who's now married.
18. High Anxiety
Air Date: 1986-02-17
Allie is so afraid of appearing on a talk show about modern families that she follows Kate's advice and goes to a hypnotist.
19. Thank You, Shirley
Air Date: 1986-02-24
Kate and Allie are both attracted to the same lawyer.
20. Ted's Back
Air Date: 1986-03-03
Faced with a lonely Saturday night, Kate calls former boyfriend Ted on the pretense of returning a sweater.
21. Chip's New Friend
Air Date: 1986-03-17
Chip befriends a mentally handicapped man who's homeless and invites him to sleep in the basement.
22. Winning
Air Date: 1986-04-07
Emma questions the importance of being elected class president when she learns that her opponent has leukemia.
23. Late Bloomer
Air Date: 1986-05-12
Kate takes a cooking class given by a woman who also teaches acting, and studies psychology when not arguing with her mother about moving home.
1. The Trouble With Jason
Air Date: 1986-09-22
Brash new transfer student Jason Crawford takes a shine to Emma and won't accept her lack of interest in him, muc h to the amusement of the rest of the family -- particularly when he showers her with gifts of food deliveries. Jennie advises Jason to back off a little, but he shows up again with flowers -- for Jennie.
2. Found Money
Air Date: 1986-09-29
Kate and Allie find a wallet containing $5,000 in cash, and the grateful owner gives them a $500 reward -- so Kate challenges Allie to spend her half on something frivolous she will enjoy.
3. The Bully
Air Date: 1986-10-06
Chip's scrapes are not all due to baseball: he's being bullied at school, but is embarrassed to admit that his tormentor is an apparently sweet little girl.
4. General Hospital
Air Date: 1986-10-13
Kate's surprise birthday party is delayed while she recuperates in hospital, so Allie checks in to keep her company.
5. Rx for Love
Air Date: 1986-10-20
His bedside manner's irresistible, so Kate's in love...
6. Halloween II
Air Date: 1986-10-27
The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.
7. Jennie and Jason
Air Date: 1986-11-03
Jennie's boyfriend is pressing her to go all the way, so it looks like time for the dreaded mother-daughter conversation.
8. Bringing Up Charles
Air Date: 1986-11-10
Allie gives Charles a lecture on responsibility when Chip and Jenny feel he has abandoned them for his new family, but Allie discovers that Clare and baby Stuart aren't seeing much of him either.
9. Emma's Coming Out Party
Air Date: 1986-11-24
Kate and Allie recall their most famous fight, seventeen years ago -- during which Kate went into labour.
10. Stage Mother
Air Date: 1986-12-01
Jennie gets a chance to sing on cable tv -- if she can leap the hurdle of Allie's excessive enthusiasm.
11. The Goodbye Girl
Air Date: 1986-12-08
Allie and her boss Eddie are stranded in the studio by a blizzard -- and must keep the show on the air.
12. Dates of Future Past
Air Date: 1986-12-15
While Kate's away on a business trip, an ex-football player makes a play for Allie.
13. Gift of the Magi
Air Date: 1987-01-05
Kate and Allie buy each other third-anniversary gifts, but with an O. Henry twist: Allie pawns her camera to buy a shade for Kate's antique lamp, while Kate sells the lamp to buy Allie a camera lens.
14. Allie's Graduation
Air Date: 1987-01-26
Allie triumphantly graduates from college, but learns that a diploma isn't necessarily a ticket to the job of her choice.
15. Upstairs, Downstairs
Air Date: 1987-02-02
Jennie arranges a date for Emma. Kate and Allie interfere in Jennie and Emma's latest spat.
16. Emma Goes to College
Air Date: 1987-02-09
Emma has to decide between going to college at Columbia or UCLA.
17. Allie and the Three Wolves
Air Date: 1987-02-16
At a singles bar, Allie becomes the target of a bet between three men on the prowl.
18. Louis in Love
Air Date: 1987-02-23
Kate tries to explain love to Louis. The family meet Louis' mentally challenged friend Catherine, who clearly has a crush on him, so Kate tries to persuade Louis that a woman really likes him and he assumes she means herself.
19. Reruns
Air Date: 1987-03-02
Allie dreams that she and Kate are characters in ""I Love Lucy."" Mail forwarded to Allie from Connecticut contains a perfumed envelope addressed to Charles, marked ""Private and Personal"". Struggling to keep from opening it, Allie falls asleep in front of late night TV and dreams herself and Kate into old episodes of ""I Love Lucy"" and ""Mary Tyler Moore.""
20. Send Me No Flowers
Air Date: 1987-03-16
The arrival of a bouquet with a card saying simply ""I'm sorry"" prompts everyone to recount how badly they were treated that day -- by clerks, bank personnel, schoolmates -- and to speculate on who exactly is apologizing to whom.
21. Dearly Beloved
Air Date: 1987-03-23
To dig up enough money for a date, Chip opens a pet cemetery. To finance a date, Chip starts a pet-burial service.
22. Allie on Strike
Air Date: 1987-04-06
Fed up with constant demands from the kids and Kate, feeling overworked and unappreciated, Allie goes ""on strike"" -- then gets worried when the others start to cope without her.
23. Kate Quits
Air Date: 1987-05-04
Emma asks Kate to talk about her work as a travel agent for her school's ""Women's Career Day,"" causing Allie to realize how much she hates her job at the movie theatre -- until it burns down. When Kate encourages her to find a job she wants, such as the museum job she has always wanted, Allie finds a position in the gift shop of the ""Museum of Contemporary Art"" -- and her happiness causes Kate to realize how much she hates her job. Kate's talk turns into a rant about needing the courage to quit her job & then Allie arrives home to say the Museum's sprinklers causes a flood and she is unemployed too.
24. Charles' Dinner
Air Date: 1987-05-11
Kate and Allie cater Charles' and Claire's anniversary dinner.
25. Allie's Surprise Party
Air Date: 1987-05-18
Kate and Allie deal with a demanding socialite's children's party, while Allie mopes over turning 39 without a surprise party of her own.
1. Fathers and Sons
Air Date: 1987-09-14
An adult Chip brings his son Scotty to the old apartment just before the building is demolished, and reminisces a bout the day he tried to conceal a report card showing that he had failed science -- convincing him that he would always be a failure.
2. The Dilemma with Emma
Air Date: 1987-09-21
Everyone has date problems: Emma has no date for the college dance and must go with Jennie and Jason & Jennie breaks up with Jason & Chip has a fight with Amy upstairs because she was drooling over Matt Dillon in the movie they rent ed & Kate's chiropractor date was a self-centered bore; and Allie has no date at all. But Emma meets someone at the dance: a self-satisfied, arrogrant business major whom everyone else hates on sight.
3. Kate and the Cab Driver
Air Date: 1987-09-28
Kate falls for a charmingly immature cab driver who quit his job as an advertising executive to become an artist -- and who wants Kate to go on impulse with him to Brazil.
4. Mother's Day
Air Date: 1987-10-05
Resenting their daughters' taking them for granted, Kate and Allie guiltily invite their own mothers to lunch -- then regret it when Marion won't stop talking about the food on her recent cruise and Joan won't stop criticizing Allie.
5. Return of Bob Barsky
Air Date: 1987-10-12
After an unexplained absence, Bob Barsky calls to ask Allie out on a date and explains that he is moving back to New York -- and is also seeing someone else.
6. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Air Date: 1987-10-19
While Kate and Dennis take old clothes to Goodwill, Allie rushes across town to pay Jennie's school fees but l eaves her purse in the cab and is left stranded and penniless in Manhattan.
7. Ted's Fix-Up
Air Date: 1987-10-26
Kate and Angela fix each other up with each other's ex's, with surprising results.
8. Jennie's New Deal
Air Date: 1987-11-09
After Emma moves into the college dorm, Jennie feels cooped up living at home under her mother's rules.
9. Hired Wife
Air Date: 1987-11-16
Businessman Bill Connor comes with a startling proposition: he is single but pretending to be married in order to get a promotion, and needs someone to impersonate his non-existent wife at an executive party. Kate agrees with his stand against prejudice on the basis of marital status but then is attracted to a man who turns out to be a co-worker of Bill's. The whole farce turns out to be moot when Bill finds out the promotion was never available--the company was hiring from the outside--and quits, leaving Kate free to date Peter.
10. The Marriage Counselor
Air Date: 1987-11-23
Bob suggests marriage counseling for the constantly bickering Kate and Allie.
11. The Triangle Has Four Sides
Air Date: 1987-12-07
Kate tries to date Dennis and Peter at the same time, but they end up finding out about each other. When Kate realizes they don't care she is dating other men, she dumps them both and starts dating Ted, again.
12. The Nightmare Before Christmas
Air Date: 1987-12-14
Kate, Allie and the kids work overtime buying and wrapping gifts for the catering clients, promising themselves a skiing vacation in Vermont & but the apartment is burgled and everything stolen, leaving them to redo it all in just one day.
13. A Catered Affair
Air Date: 1988-01-04
14. The Band Singer
Air Date: 1988-01-11
Jenny is enamored of classmate Howard, auditions for his band, and becomes their lead singer. While the band rehearses in their basement, Kate and Allie give combined French dinners/French lessons and worry that Jenny is not willing to be herself with Howard -- to the point where she won't admit she can't rollerskate when he wants her to sing dressed as a skating '50s carhop.
15. Almost Married (a.k.a.) And Then There Were None
Air Date: 1988-01-18
Ted invites everybody to his friends' cabin in the Adirondacks, but there's an escaped convict on the loose.
16. My Day with Paul Newman
Air Date: 1988-02-01
A film crew asks to use the front door in a movie
17. The Namath of the Game
Air Date: 1988-02-03
Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant
18. The Mouse That Squeaked
Air Date: 1988-02-08
Kate and Allie panic when Chip's mouse gets loose.
19. Inside Park Avenue
Air Date: 1988-02-15
Kate and Allie get a taste of how the other half lives---and loves---when they cater a society couple's 25th-anniversary party.
20. Working Women
Air Date: 1988-02-22
Arrogant businessman Jack Brompton hires the women to cater ""an authentic early American dinner for 24"" at his place in the Hamptons, then repeatedly changes the theme and menu from American Civil War to Victorian England. Jenny's video project on working women for her women's study course prompts fantasy sequences with Kate and Allie as immigrant women in a sweatshop and as WWII factory workers. Inspired to stand up for themselves, they confront Brompton about his shoddy treatment of them -- and discover that he is a henpecked husband only obeying his shrewish wife's whims.
21. I Don't, I Don't
Air Date: 1988-03-14
Bob is in a panic because he feels he's not ready for marriage---which no one has mentioned.
22. Bob Smells the Roses
Air Date: 1988-03-21
Shaken by a friend's heart attack, Bob decides he should live life to the fullest---with Allie as his wife. Part 1 of two.
23. Allie Makes Up Her Mind
Air Date: 1988-03-28
Conclusion. Allie can't decide whether to accept Bob's marriage proposal.
24. The Clip Show
Air Date: 1988-05-23
The series' 100th episode is celebrated with clips from past shows.
1. Wedding Belle Blues
Air Date: 1988-12-11
As the nervous bride-to-be, Allie has nightmares about meeting her fiancé's parents.
2. Kate Gets Dumped
Air Date: 1988-12-12
While honeymooners Allie and Bob fly off to Hawaii, Bob dumps Kate.
3. Allie Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Air Date: 1988-12-19
As Allie moves into her new high-rise condo, Kate interviews a potential housemate.
4. The Odd Couples
Air Date: 1988-12-26
Kate is saved from perky Haven and Blair when Allie suggests that Kate move in.
5. Anchor Away
Air Date: 1989-01-09
Watching a tape of Bob's sportscast, Allie notices an attractive anchor making an on-air play for her husband.
6. Better Never Than Late
Air Date: 1989-01-16
Bob's mother questions Allie about having another child.
7. Moving On
Air Date: 1989-01-23
Kate spends her 40th birthday wondering what she has done with her life -- and, shaken by Emma's transfer to UCLA, decides to join the Peace Corps.
8. A Tree Grows on West 56th Street
Air Date: 1989-01-30
Kate organizes a block association to save a park.
9. The Nearlyweds
Air Date: 1989-02-06
Allie's reaction upon hearing that Jennie and her boyfriend are sharing a dorm room doesn't compare with her reaction when they announce they're getting married.
10. Wanted: One Husband
Air Date: 1989-02-13
A rich neighbour offers a hefty sum to Kate and Allie if they can find her ""a Bob..""
11. What's Love Got to Do with It?
Air Date: 1989-02-20
Kate is dating a man with no charm, looks or personality, yet everyone loves him -- except Kate.
12. I've Got a Secret
Air Date: 1989-02-27
Kate has trouble keeping quiet about Bob's broadcasting future.
13. Chip's Notes
Air Date: 1989-03-06
Chip is so thrilled to be associated with the ultracool Mike Sheridan that he becomes his partner in a scam.
14. Love Thy Neighbor
Air Date: 1989-03-13
Trying to mend a broken romance, Kate feigns love in front of the woman who dumped her neighbor -- but he thinks Kate's serious.
15. Trojan War
Air Date: 1989-03-20
Allie discovers a condom in Chip's pocket.
16. Loan-some Bob
Air Date: 1989-03-27
Kate and Allie get a loan from Bob.
17. The Review
Air Date: 1989-04-10
When Allie's sushi draws a bad review from a critic, Kate determines to please the man's palate to gain a retraction.
18. The Wedding
Air Date: 1989-04-24
Kate reluctantly agrees to accompany Lou to his cousin's wedding.
19. The Last Temptation of Allie
Air Date: 1989-05-01
While Allie prepares her entry for Cousin Cabot's Country Cookbook contest, Kate cooks up a way to help Lou.
20. Hockey Team
Air Date: 1989-05-08
Bob lets Chip join the hockey team without consulting Allie.
21. My Boyfriend's Back
Air Date: 1989-05-15
Allie's ex-boyfriend returns to New York for the opening of his off-Broadway play, which turns out to be based on their romance. Unfortunately for Allie, he has eyes only for Kate.
22. What a Wonderful Episode (a.k.a. It's a Wonderful Episode a.k.a. Kate and Allie Go to Hell)
Air Date: 1989-05-22
A job offer and a $2000 check from a man named Gabriel prompt Kate and Allie to take account of their lives.
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Rating
5.8/10
Release Date
1984-03-19
Episodes
122 (6 seasons)
Status
Ended