About this season
A nun whose vocation has traditionally provided assignments to cultured settings is assigned to an orphanage inhabited by a motley group of children. SISTER KATE was an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1989–1990 television season.
Episodes (19)
1. Pilot
Aired 16 September 1989 • 30 min
Sister Kate is a No-Nonsense Nun who is unwillingly sent to take care of a group of Orphans who can't seem to get adopted. Sister Kate, despite having a severe dislike for children, soon realizes that they are not all bad, and is willing to let bygones be bygones.
2. Freddy's Bad Habit
Aired 21 September 1989 • 30 min
Kate goes to extraordinary measures to break Freddy's smoking habit. Neville gets upset when someone wants to adopt Viloet.
3. Eugene's Secret
Aired 24 September 1989 • 30 min
All the kids grumble when Kate pairs them off in bedrooms, but none as much as Eugene, who has a secret reason for not wanting a roommate.
4. Freddy's Date
Aired 1 October 1989 • 30 min
Tomboy Freddy plays a couquette to attract a guy in auto shop, and Neville plays havoc with the peace in his search for an instrument he can play.
5. Eugene's Model
Aired 15 October 1989 • 30 min
April is irked because Eugene picked Freddy to sketch in the buff, and Violet is irked because Neville is spending time with Kate.
6. Neville's Hired Hand
Aired 22 October 1989 • 30 min
Neville is so taken with a vagrant who stops for food that Kate hires him as a cook and handyman , on the condition that he continues to stay off booze that he swears he's sworn off.
7. Hilary's Date
Aired 29 October 1989 • 30 min
Hilary does a masterly job of keeping her wheelchair a secret from a boy she likes; and Neville gives Kate the silent treatment after she upbraids him for his language.
8. Violet's Friend
Aired 5 November 1989 • 30 min
Violet's Imaginary friend comes to visit and has the gang in an uproar. Violet get upset when the others pretend to see her, and she runs away. Sister Kate gets a phone call from a local hospital telling her Violet is there. Violet went to the hospital because that is where she last saw her friend alive. The friends invisible counterpart is how Violet coped with the death.
9. Kate's Baby
Aired 19 November 1989 • 30 min
Kate gets to become a mother - to an infant child abandoned at the orphanage. Meanwhile the kids try to raise 200 dollars to replace a vase they smashed in Kate's office.
10. Kate's Furnace
Aired 26 November 1989 • 30 min
The weather's cold, but feuding Freddy and Todd warm up to each other on a trip to Syracuse to to get a part for the furnace.
11. The Nun
Aired 3 December 1989 • 30 min
Sister Agnes, a temporary resident who has spent 25 years of serenity and silence in a convent, finds old habits hard to keep at Redemption House.
12. April in Paris
Aired 10 December 1989 • 30 min
An upcoming French test becomes April's latest anxiety; and Todd uses an unwitting Hillary in a ploy to attract a salesgirl at the mall.
13. Father Christmas
Aired 17 December 1989 • 30 min
Freddy's father Nick pays a visit on furlough from prison. He's no St. Nick, but he makes Christmas memorable.
14. Eugene's Feat
Aired 7 January 1990 • 30 min
Eugene decides he needs to prove he's a man.
15. Kandid Kate
Aired 21 January 1990 • 30 min
The Kids star in their own candid videos to sell themselves to perspective parents.
16. Sweet Sixteen
Aired 16 July 1990 • 30 min
A sweet 16 party for April isn't planned as a surprise, but that's how it works out.
17. Bingo
Aired 23 July 1990 • 30 min
A lot of bingo addicts are attracted by games at the house- an Kate turns out to B-1.
18. Todd's Cheap Date
Aired 30 July 1990 • 30 min
Todd's date turns into a nightmare.
19. Underwood Underfoot
Aired 1 September 1990 • 30 min
Kate can't understand why Underwood is always underfoot.