Kate & Allie — Season 4
FORGET YOUR PROBLEMS... THEIRS ARE FUNNIER!
About this season
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.
Episodes (25)
1. The Trouble With Jason
Aired 22 September 1986 • 30 min
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
Aired 29 September 1986 • 30 min
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
Aired 6 October 1986 • 30 min
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
Aired 13 October 1986 • 30 min
Kate's surprise birthday party is delayed while she recuperates in hospital, so Allie checks in to keep her company.
5. Rx for Love
Aired 20 October 1986 • 30 min
His bedside manner's irresistible, so Kate's in love...
6. Halloween II
Aired 27 October 1986 • 30 min
The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.
7. Jennie and Jason
Aired 3 November 1986 • 30 min
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
Aired 10 November 1986 • 30 min
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
Aired 24 November 1986 • 30 min
Kate and Allie recall their most famous fight, seventeen years ago -- during which Kate went into labour.
10. Stage Mother
Aired 1 December 1986 • 30 min
Jennie gets a chance to sing on cable tv -- if she can leap the hurdle of Allie's excessive enthusiasm.
11. The Goodbye Girl
Aired 8 December 1986 • 30 min
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
Aired 15 December 1986 • 30 min
While Kate's away on a business trip, an ex-football player makes a play for Allie.
13. Gift of the Magi
Aired 5 January 1987 • 30 min
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
Aired 26 January 1987 • 30 min
Allie triumphantly graduates from college, but learns that a diploma isn't necessarily a ticket to the job of her choice.
15. Upstairs, Downstairs
Aired 2 February 1987 • 30 min
Jennie arranges a date for Emma. Kate and Allie interfere in Jennie and Emma's latest spat.
16. Emma Goes to College
Aired 9 February 1987 • 30 min
Emma has to decide between going to college at Columbia or UCLA.
17. Allie and the Three Wolves
Aired 16 February 1987 • 30 min
At a singles bar, Allie becomes the target of a bet between three men on the prowl.
18. Louis in Love
Aired 23 February 1987 • 30 min
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
Aired 2 March 1987 • 30 min
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
Aired 16 March 1987 • 30 min
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
Aired 23 March 1987 • 30 min
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
Aired 6 April 1987 • 30 min
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
Aired 4 May 1987 • 30 min
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
Aired 11 May 1987 • 30 min
Kate and Allie cater Charles' and Claire's anniversary dinner.
25. Allie's Surprise Party
Aired 18 May 1987 • 30 min
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.