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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#5 - Odd Boy Out
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/16/1984
Allie discovers that Chips friends think hes a sissy because of his background.
#6 - Halloween II
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1986
The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.
#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 - General Hospital
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1986
Kate's surprise birthday party is delayed while she recuperates in hospital, so Allie checks in to keep her company.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Dead Cat
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/11/1985
Kate brings a stray kitten home.
#13 - Baby
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1984
Excited about a co-worker's pregnancy, Kate seriously considers having another baby.
#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 - 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?
#16 - Goodbye, Plumber
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/8/1985
Ted proposes to Kate.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Allie's First Date
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/19/1984
#21 - Rear Window
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/1985
Chip's imagination could get him into trouble when he ""witnesses"" a murder from his bedroom window.
#22 - Pirates
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1984
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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Country Dog
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1984
Chip's birthday causes problems when Charles goes overboard on presents.
#25 - The Clip Show
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/23/1988
The series' 100th episode is celebrated with clips from past shows.