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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.

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Episodes

Specials

2 episodes

S0 E1 · A Conversation with Susan Saint James and Bill Persky

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S0 E2 · Season 1 Gag Reel

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Season 1

6 episodes

S1 E1 · Allie's First Date

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S1 E2 · The Very Loud Family

When the kids are assigned a class project to show ""change"", Emma makes a video on her family.

S1 E3 · Odd Boy Out

Allie discovers that Chips friends think hes a sissy because of his background.

S1 E4 · The Family Business

When Kate gets a promotion at the travel agency, Allie starts to feel she may have missed out on life.

S1 E5 · Dear Diary

Kate's curiosity gets the best of her when she finds a diary which belongs to Allie.

S1 E6 · A Weekend to Remember

Allie finds herself alone when Kate goes on a ski trip with her ex-husband and the kids are off doing their own thing.

Season 2

22 episodes

S2 E1 · Baby

Excited about a co-worker's pregnancy, Kate seriously considers having another baby.

S2 E2 · Landlady

Kate and Allie face a rent increase when their landlady realizes that there are two families occupying a one-family dwelling.

S2 E3 · Diner

Allie finally has someone who wants to buy her house... but, is she willing to sell?

S2 E4 · Lottsa Luck

Kate's elderly aunt Ofelia dies, leaving behind a cryptic will

S2 E5 · Candidate

Allie offers to be a campaign volunteer to a would-be congressman

S2 E6 · Kate and the Plumber

Kate's relationship with plumber Ted runs hot and cold -- the only thing they can agree on is a mutual attraction.

S2 E7 · The Safe Caper

After finding a 55-year-old love letter hidden in the wall, Kate and Allie try to rekindle the romance by mailing the letter.

S2 E8 · Pirates

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.

S2 E9 · Country Dog

Chip's birthday causes problems when Charles goes overboard on presents.

S2 E10 · Piano Lesson

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.

S2 E11 · New Year's Eve

Dateless, Kate and Allie spend New Year's Eve at home together.

S2 E12 · Back to School

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S2 E13 · Charles Marries Claire

Allie has new hope of a reconciliation after ex-husband Charles becomes suddenly attentive because he has broken up with girlfriend Clare.

S2 E14 · If She Goes, I Go

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.

S2 E15 · Rear Window

Chip's imagination could get him into trouble when he ""witnesses"" a murder from his bedroom window.

S2 E16 · Lovely Rita

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.

S2 E17 · Sons and Lovers

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.

S2 E18 · Author, Author

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.

S2 E19 · Dead Cat

Kate brings a stray kitten home.

S2 E20 · The Bad Seed

Jenny falls into bad company but finds herself all alone at the police station.

S2 E21 · Goodbye, Plumber

Ted proposes to Kate.

S2 E22 · My Dinner With Kate and Allie

After Allie's ex Charles remarries and Kate breaks up with Ted, they try to cheer themselves up with a lobster dinner.

Season 3

23 episodes

S3 E1 · The Reunion

Invited to their 20th high school reunion, Kate & Allie both go determined to settle old scores.

S3 E2 · Make Mine Mink

Kate "inherits" a lovely mink coat from a lover's quarrel and finds that it changes her lifestyle.

S3 E3 · Whatever Happened to Romance?

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.

S3 E4 · Evening in Paris

On a free trip to Paris, Allie comes down with the flu while Jennie plans a rendezvous with a Frenchman.

S3 E5 · Picture of An Affair

Allie receives devastating news about her father.

S3 E6 · The Maltese Chotchke

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.

S3 E7 · Allie's Affair

Allie's new professor from Ohio begins visiting on ""academic business"" but their relationship soon heats up, with surprising results.

S3 E8 · Thanksgiving

Kate and Allie invite a crowd for Thanksgiving dinner/disaster.

S3 E9 · Max's New Girlfriend

Kate is worried that Max's new girlfriend, Darla, is turning Emma's head in a glamorous world of celebrities and premieres.

S3 E10 · Kate's Friend

Kate's old friend Betsy visits, and far outstays her welcome.

S3 E11 · Dress to Kill

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.

S3 E12 · Dark Victory

Trapped in her dentist's office during a blackout, Kate makes a date with a stranger—and then discovers he's black.

S3 E13 · Grand Central Station

A singing telegram provided more information than intended when Kate and Allie referee another family's dispute.

S3 E14 · Chip's Divorce

Chip feels he's being replaced when he finds out Charles' girlfriend Claire is pregnant.

S3 E15 · Too Late The Rebel

A protest rally gives Allie a taste of what she missed during the '60s, while for Kate it's a march down memory lane.

S3 E16 · The Croissant Jungle

Jenny gets more than she bargained for in her new job: a bonus of sexual harassment.

S3 E17 · Privacy

Allie jumps to conclusions when she discovers Kate with a former boyfriend who's now married.

S3 E18 · High Anxiety

Allie is so afraid of appearing on a talk show about modern families that she follows Kate's advice and goes to a hypnotist.

S3 E19 · Thank You, Shirley

Kate and Allie are both attracted to the same lawyer.

S3 E20 · Ted's Back

Faced with a lonely Saturday night, Kate calls former boyfriend Ted on the pretense of returning a sweater.

S3 E21 · Chip's New Friend

Chip befriends a mentally handicapped man who's homeless and invites him to sleep in the basement.

S3 E22 · Winning

Emma questions the importance of being elected class president when she learns that her opponent has leukemia.

S3 E23 · Late Bloomer

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.

Season 4

25 episodes

S4 E1 · The Trouble With Jason

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.

S4 E2 · Found Money

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.

S4 E3 · The Bully

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.

S4 E4 · General Hospital

Kate's surprise birthday party is delayed while she recuperates in hospital, so Allie checks in to keep her company.

S4 E5 · Rx for Love

His bedside manner's irresistible, so Kate's in love...

S4 E6 · Halloween II

The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.

S4 E7 · Jennie and Jason

Jennie's boyfriend is pressing her to go all the way, so it looks like time for the dreaded mother-daughter conversation.

S4 E8 · Bringing Up Charles

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.

S4 E9 · Emma's Coming Out Party

Kate and Allie recall their most famous fight, seventeen years ago -- during which Kate went into labour.

S4 E10 · Stage Mother

Jennie gets a chance to sing on cable tv -- if she can leap the hurdle of Allie's excessive enthusiasm.

S4 E11 · The Goodbye Girl

Allie and her boss Eddie are stranded in the studio by a blizzard -- and must keep the show on the air.

S4 E12 · Dates of Future Past

While Kate's away on a business trip, an ex-football player makes a play for Allie.

S4 E13 · Gift of the Magi

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.

S4 E14 · Allie's Graduation

Allie triumphantly graduates from college, but learns that a diploma isn't necessarily a ticket to the job of her choice.

S4 E15 · Upstairs, Downstairs

Jennie arranges a date for Emma. Kate and Allie interfere in Jennie and Emma's latest spat.

S4 E16 · Emma Goes to College

Emma has to decide between going to college at Columbia or UCLA.

S4 E17 · Allie and the Three Wolves

At a singles bar, Allie becomes the target of a bet between three men on the prowl.

S4 E18 · Louis in Love

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.

S4 E19 · Reruns

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.""

S4 E20 · Send Me No Flowers

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.

S4 E21 · Dearly Beloved

To dig up enough money for a date, Chip opens a pet cemetery. To finance a date, Chip starts a pet-burial service.

S4 E22 · Allie on Strike

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.

S4 E23 · Kate Quits

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.

S4 E24 · Charles' Dinner

Kate and Allie cater Charles' and Claire's anniversary dinner.

S4 E25 · Allie's Surprise Party

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.

Season 5

24 episodes

S5 E1 · Fathers and Sons

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.

S5 E2 · The Dilemma with Emma

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.

S5 E3 · Kate and the Cab Driver

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.

S5 E4 · Mother's Day

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.

S5 E5 · Return of Bob Barsky

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.

S5 E6 · Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

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.

S5 E7 · Ted's Fix-Up

Kate and Angela fix each other up with each other's ex's, with surprising results.

S5 E8 · Jennie's New Deal

After Emma moves into the college dorm, Jennie feels cooped up living at home under her mother's rules.

S5 E9 · Hired Wife

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.

S5 E10 · The Marriage Counselor

Bob suggests marriage counseling for the constantly bickering Kate and Allie.

S5 E11 · The Triangle Has Four Sides

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.

S5 E12 · The Nightmare Before Christmas

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.

S5 E13 · A Catered Affair

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S5 E14 · The Band Singer

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.

S5 E15 · Almost Married (a.k.a.) And Then There Were None

Ted invites everybody to his friends' cabin in the Adirondacks, but there's an escaped convict on the loose.

S5 E16 · My Day with Paul Newman

A film crew asks to use the front door in a movie

S5 E17 · The Namath of the Game

Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant

S5 E18 · The Mouse That Squeaked

Kate and Allie panic when Chip's mouse gets loose.

S5 E19 · Inside Park Avenue

Kate and Allie get a taste of how the other half lives---and loves---when they cater a society couple's 25th-anniversary party.

S5 E20 · Working Women

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.

S5 E21 · I Don't, I Don't

Bob is in a panic because he feels he's not ready for marriage---which no one has mentioned.

S5 E22 · Bob Smells the Roses

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.

S5 E23 · Allie Makes Up Her Mind

Conclusion. Allie can't decide whether to accept Bob's marriage proposal.

S5 E24 · The Clip Show

The series' 100th episode is celebrated with clips from past shows.

Season 6

22 episodes

S6 E1 · Wedding Belle Blues

As the nervous bride-to-be, Allie has nightmares about meeting her fiancé's parents.

S6 E2 · Kate Gets Dumped

While honeymooners Allie and Bob fly off to Hawaii, Bob dumps Kate.

S6 E3 · Allie Doesn't Live Here Anymore

As Allie moves into her new high-rise condo, Kate interviews a potential housemate.

S6 E4 · The Odd Couples

Kate is saved from perky Haven and Blair when Allie suggests that Kate move in.

S6 E5 · Anchor Away

Watching a tape of Bob's sportscast, Allie notices an attractive anchor making an on-air play for her husband.

S6 E6 · Better Never Than Late

Bob's mother questions Allie about having another child.

S6 E7 · Moving On

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.

S6 E8 · A Tree Grows on West 56th Street

Kate organizes a block association to save a park.

S6 E9 · The Nearlyweds

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.

S6 E10 · Wanted: One Husband

A rich neighbour offers a hefty sum to Kate and Allie if they can find her ""a Bob..""

S6 E11 · What's Love Got to Do with It?

Kate is dating a man with no charm, looks or personality, yet everyone loves him -- except Kate.

S6 E12 · I've Got a Secret

Kate has trouble keeping quiet about Bob's broadcasting future.

S6 E13 · Chip's Notes

Chip is so thrilled to be associated with the ultracool Mike Sheridan that he becomes his partner in a scam.

S6 E14 · Love Thy Neighbor

Trying to mend a broken romance, Kate feigns love in front of the woman who dumped her neighbor -- but he thinks Kate's serious.

S6 E15 · Trojan War

Allie discovers a condom in Chip's pocket.

S6 E16 · Loan-some Bob

Kate and Allie get a loan from Bob.

S6 E17 · The Review

When Allie's sushi draws a bad review from a critic, Kate determines to please the man's palate to gain a retraction.

S6 E18 · The Wedding

Kate reluctantly agrees to accompany Lou to his cousin's wedding.

S6 E19 · The Last Temptation of Allie

While Allie prepares her entry for Cousin Cabot's Country Cookbook contest, Kate cooks up a way to help Lou.

S6 E20 · Hockey Team

Bob lets Chip join the hockey team without consulting Allie.

S6 E21 · My Boyfriend's Back

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.

S6 E22 · What a Wonderful Episode (a.k.a. It's a Wonderful Episode a.k.a. Kate and Allie Go to Hell)

A job offer and a $2000 check from a man named Gabriel prompt Kate and Allie to take account of their lives.