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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When the kids are assigned a class project to show ""change"", Emma makes a video on her family.
Allie discovers that Chips friends think hes a sissy because of his background.
When Kate gets a promotion at the travel agency, Allie starts to feel she may have missed out on life.
Kate's curiosity gets the best of her when she finds a diary which belongs to Allie.
Allie finds herself alone when Kate goes on a ski trip with her ex-husband and the kids are off doing their own thing.
Excited about a co-worker's pregnancy, Kate seriously considers having another baby.
Kate and Allie face a rent increase when their landlady realizes that there are two families occupying a one-family dwelling.
Allie finally has someone who wants to buy her house... but, is she willing to sell?
Kate's elderly aunt Ofelia dies, leaving behind a cryptic will
Allie offers to be a campaign volunteer to a would-be congressman
Kate's relationship with plumber Ted runs hot and cold -- the only thing they can agree on is a mutual attraction.
After finding a 55-year-old love letter hidden in the wall, Kate and Allie try to rekindle the romance by mailing the letter.
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.
Chip's birthday causes problems when Charles goes overboard on presents.
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 mo…
Dateless, Kate and Allie spend New Year's Eve at home together.
Allie has new hope of a reconciliation after ex-husband Charles becomes suddenly attentive because he has broken up with girlfriend Clare.
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.
Chip's imagination could get him into trouble when he ""witnesses"" a murder from his bedroom window.
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.
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…
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.
E19 · Dead Cat
Kate brings a stray kitten home.
Jenny falls into bad company but finds herself all alone at the police station.
Ted proposes to Kate.
After Allie's ex Charles remarries and Kate breaks up with Ted, they try to cheer themselves up with a lobster dinner.
Invited to their 20th high school reunion, Kate & Allie both go determined to settle old scores.
Kate "inherits" a lovely mink coat from a lover's quarrel and finds that it changes her lifestyle.
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.
On a free trip to Paris, Allie comes down with the flu while Jennie plans a rendezvous with a Frenchman.
Allie receives devastating news about her father.
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.
Allie's new professor from Ohio begins visiting on ""academic business"" but their relationship soon heats up, with surprising results.
Kate and Allie invite a crowd for Thanksgiving dinner/disaster.
Kate is worried that Max's new girlfriend, Darla, is turning Emma's head in a glamorous world of celebrities and premieres.
Kate's old friend Betsy visits, and far outstays her welcome.
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.
Trapped in her dentist's office during a blackout, Kate makes a date with a stranger—and then discovers he's black.
A singing telegram provided more information than intended when Kate and Allie referee another family's dispute.
Chip feels he's being replaced when he finds out Charles' girlfriend Claire is pregnant.
A protest rally gives Allie a taste of what she missed during the '60s, while for Kate it's a march down memory lane.
Jenny gets more than she bargained for in her new job: a bonus of sexual harassment.
Allie jumps to conclusions when she discovers Kate with a former boyfriend who's now married.
Allie is so afraid of appearing on a talk show about modern families that she follows Kate's advice and goes to a hypnotist.
Kate and Allie are both attracted to the same lawyer.
Faced with a lonely Saturday night, Kate calls former boyfriend Ted on the pretense of returning a sweater.
Chip befriends a mentally handicapped man who's homeless and invites him to sleep in the basement.
Emma questions the importance of being elected class president when she learns that her opponent has leukemia.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Kate's surprise birthday party is delayed while she recuperates in hospital, so Allie checks in to keep her company.
His bedside manner's irresistible, so Kate's in love...
The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.
Jennie's boyfriend is pressing her to go all the way, so it looks like time for the dreaded mother-daughter conversation.
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.
Kate and Allie recall their most famous fight, seventeen years ago -- during which Kate went into labour.
Jennie gets a chance to sing on cable tv -- if she can leap the hurdle of Allie's excessive enthusiasm.
Allie and her boss Eddie are stranded in the studio by a blizzard -- and must keep the show on the air.
While Kate's away on a business trip, an ex-football player makes a play for Allie.
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.
Allie triumphantly graduates from college, but learns that a diploma isn't necessarily a ticket to the job of her choice.
Jennie arranges a date for Emma. Kate and Allie interfere in Jennie and Emma's latest spat.
Emma has to decide between going to college at Columbia or UCLA.
At a singles bar, Allie becomes the target of a bet between three men on the prowl.
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 …
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"". Struggli…
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 e…
To dig up enough money for a date, Chip opens a pet cemetery. To finance a date, Chip starts a pet-burial service.
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.
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 K…
Kate and Allie cater Charles' and Claire's anniversary dinner.
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.
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 -- c…
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 Ma…
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.
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 J…
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.
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.
Kate and Angela fix each other up with each other's ex's, with surprising results.
After Emma moves into the college dorm, Jennie feels cooped up living at home under her mother's rules.
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 executiv…
Bob suggests marriage counseling for the constantly bickering Kate and Allie.
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 T…
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, leavi…
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…
Ted invites everybody to his friends' cabin in the Adirondacks, but there's an escaped convict on the loose.
A film crew asks to use the front door in a movie
Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant
Kate and Allie panic when Chip's mouse gets loose.
Kate and Allie get a taste of how the other half lives---and loves---when they cater a society couple's 25th-anniversary party.
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 W…
Bob is in a panic because he feels he's not ready for marriage---which no one has mentioned.
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.
Conclusion. Allie can't decide whether to accept Bob's marriage proposal.
The series' 100th episode is celebrated with clips from past shows.
