The BEST episodes of Kate & Allie
Every episode of Kate & Allie ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Kate & Allie!
Kate and Allie, which ran on CBS from 19 March 1984 to 22 May 1989, was the brainchild of Sherry Coben who came up with the idea for the series while attending a high school reunion. There she noticed that a couple of divorcees who seemed unhappy and dissatisfied found comfort in sharing with each other. Coben worked with this germinal notion and successfully pitched the resulting script, originally entitled, "Two Mommies," to Michael Ogiens, then head of New York program development at CBS. Ogiens liked the script because it contained fresh material that dealt with a real issue of the day--single parenthood. Kate and Allie was an instant success, ranking fourth the week it debuted, garnering consistently high ratings thereafter, and earning Jane Curtin two consecutive Emmys and Bill Persky, one. The characters and the issues they dealt with obviously appealed to the program's audience. Saint James' character, Kate, is a woman recently divorced from her unstable and somewha
#1 - The Family Business
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/23/1984
When Kate gets a promotion at the travel agency, Allie starts to feel she may have missed out on life.
#2 - Odd Boy Out
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/16/1984
Allie discovers that Chips friends think hes a sissy because of his background.
#3 - The Very Loud Family
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/26/1984
When the kids are assigned a class project to show ""change"", Emma makes a video on her family.
#4 - Landlady
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/1984
Kate and Allie face a rent increase when their landlady realizes that there are two families occupying a one-family dwelling.
#5 - Allie Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/19/1988
As Allie moves into her new high-rise condo, Kate interviews a potential housemate.
#6 - Wedding Belle Blues
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/11/1988
As the nervous bride-to-be, Allie has nightmares about meeting her fiancé's parents.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - Halloween II
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1986
The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.
#10 - Thanksgiving
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/1985
Kate and Allie invite a crowd for Thanksgiving dinner/disaster.
#11 - Whatever Happened to Romance?
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1985
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.
#12 - The Bad Seed
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/18/1985
Jenny falls into bad company but finds herself all alone at the police station.
#13 - Dead Cat
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/11/1985
Kate brings a stray kitten home.
#14 - Lovely Rita
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1985
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.
#15 - If She Goes, I Go
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/1985
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.
#16 - New Year's Eve
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/1984
Dateless, Kate and Allie spend New Year's Eve at home together.
#17 - Diner
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1984
Allie finally has someone who wants to buy her house... but, is she willing to sell?
#18 - Baby
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1984
Excited about a co-worker's pregnancy, Kate seriously considers having another baby.
#19 - Goodbye, Plumber
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/8/1985
Ted proposes to Kate.
#20 - Kate and the Plumber
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1984
Kate's relationship with plumber Ted runs hot and cold -- the only thing they can agree on is a mutual attraction.
#21 - Sons and Lovers
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1985
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.
#22 - A Weekend to Remember
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/7/1984
Allie finds herself alone when Kate goes on a ski trip with her ex-husband and the kids are off doing their own thing.
#24 - Allie's First Date
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/19/1984
#25 - My Dinner With Kate and Allie
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1985
After Allie's ex Charles remarries and Kate breaks up with Ted, they try to cheer themselves up with a lobster dinner.