The BEST episodes of Kate & Allie season 4
Every episode of Kate & Allie season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Kate & Allie season 4!
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 - Halloween II
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1986
The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Charles' Dinner
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/1987
Kate and Allie cater Charles' and Claire's anniversary dinner.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.""
#10 - 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.
#11 - Allie and the Three Wolves
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/1987
At a singles bar, Allie becomes the target of a bet between three men on the prowl.
#12 - Emma Goes to College
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/1987
Emma has to decide between going to college at Columbia or UCLA.
#13 - Upstairs, Downstairs
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/1987
Jennie arranges a date for Emma. Kate and Allie interfere in Jennie and Emma's latest spat.
#14 - Allie's Graduation
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/26/1987
Allie triumphantly graduates from college, but learns that a diploma isn't necessarily a ticket to the job of her choice.
#15 - Gift of the Magi
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1987
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.
#16 - Dates of Future Past
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1986
While Kate's away on a business trip, an ex-football player makes a play for Allie.
#17 - The Goodbye Girl
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1986
Allie and her boss Eddie are stranded in the studio by a blizzard -- and must keep the show on the air.
#18 - Stage Mother
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1986
Jennie gets a chance to sing on cable tv -- if she can leap the hurdle of Allie's excessive enthusiasm.
#19 - Emma's Coming Out Party
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1986
Kate and Allie recall their most famous fight, seventeen years ago -- during which Kate went into labour.
#20 - Bringing Up Charles
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1986
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.
#21 - Jennie and Jason
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1986
Jennie's boyfriend is pressing her to go all the way, so it looks like time for the dreaded mother-daughter conversation.
#22 - Rx for Love
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1986
His bedside manner's irresistible, so Kate's in love...
#23 - The Bully
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1986
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.
#24 - Found Money
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1986
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.
#25 - The Trouble With Jason
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1986
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.