The BEST episodes of Kate & Allie

#1 - Fathers and Sons

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1987

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 - My Day With Paul Newman

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/1988

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

#3 - Almost Married (a.k.a.) And Then There Were None

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1988

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

#4 - The Band Singer

Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1988

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.

#5 - A Catered Affair

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1988

#6 - The Nightmare Before Christmas

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1987

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.

#7 - The Triangle Has Four Sides

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1987

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.

#8 - The Marriage Counselor

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1987

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

#9 - Hired Wife

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1987

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 - Jennie's New Deal

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1987

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

#11 - Ted's Fix-Up

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1987

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

#12 - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1987

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.

#13 - Return of Bob Barsky

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1987

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.

#14 - Mother's Day

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1987

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.

#15 - Kate and the Cab Driver

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1987

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.

#16 - The Dilemma with Emma

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1987

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.

#17 - The Namath of the Game

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/3/1988

Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant

#18 - Allie's Surprise Party

Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/18/1987

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.

#19 - Charles' Dinner

Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/1987

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

#20 - Kate Quits

Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/4/1987

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.

#21 - Allie on Strike

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/6/1987

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.

#22 - Dearly Beloved

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/23/1987

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

#23 - Send Me No Flowers

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/16/1987

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.

#24 - Reruns

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/2/1987

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.""

#25 - Louis in Love

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/23/1987

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.