Kate & Allie: The Complete Series

When the kids are assigned a class project to show ""change"", Emma makes a video on her family.

Allie discovers that Chips friends think hes a sissy because of his background.

When Kate gets a promotion at the travel agency, Allie starts to feel she may have missed out on life.

Kate's curiosity gets the best of her when she finds a diary which belongs to Allie.

Allie finds herself alone when Kate goes on a ski trip with her ex-husband and the kids are off doing their own thing.

Excited about a co-worker's pregnancy, Kate seriously considers having another baby.

Kate and Allie face a rent increase when their landlady realizes that there are two families occupying a one-family dwelling.

Allie finally has someone who wants to buy her house... but, is she willing to sell?

Kate's elderly aunt Ofelia dies, leaving behind a cryptic will

Allie offers to be a campaign volunteer to a would-be congressman

Kate's relationship with plumber Ted runs hot and cold -- the only thing they can agree on is a mutual attraction.

After finding a 55-year-old love letter hidden in the wall, Kate and Allie try to rekindle the romance by mailing the letter.

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.

Chip's birthday causes problems when Charles goes overboard on presents.

When Max leaves for L.A., Emma inherits the piano, complete with a handsome piano teacher who soon has the whole family interested in ""music"" — but who strikes a note of discord when he becomes more interested in Kate than in his pupil.

Dateless, Kate and Allie spend New Year's Eve at home together.

Allie has new hope of a reconciliation after ex-husband Charles becomes suddenly attentive because he has broken up with girlfriend Clare.

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.

Chip's imagination could get him into trouble when he ""witnesses"" a murder from his bedroom window.

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.

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.

Kate and Allie's crush on an old college professor is rekindled when each imagines she is the inspiration for his recently published romantic novel.

Kate brings a stray kitten home.

Jenny falls into bad company but finds herself all alone at the police station.

Ted proposes to Kate.

After Allie's ex Charles remarries and Kate breaks up with Ted, they try to cheer themselves up with a lobster dinner.

Invited to their 20th high school reunion, Kate & Allie both go determined to settle old scores.

Kate ""inherits"" a lovely mink coat from a lover's quarrel and finds that it changes her lifestyle.

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.

On a free trip to Paris, Allie comes down with the flu while Jennie plans a rendezvous with a Frenchman.

Allie receives devastating news about her father.

Max sends Emma a mystery for her birthday, and Allie is soon in on it, catching up the family in an exotic world of menacing art dealers and homicidal maniacs.

Allie's new professor from Ohio begins visiting on ""academic business"" but their relationship soon heats up, with surprising results.

Kate and Allie invite a crowd for Thanksgiving dinner/disaster.

Kate is worried that Max's new girlfriend, Darla, is turning Emma's head in a glamorous world of celebrities and premieres.

Kate's old friend Betsy visits, and far outstays her welcome.

Invited to the Russian Ballet, Kate searches frantically for the perfect dress. She finds it, but it costs more than Kate and Allie's combined monthly salaries.

Trapped in her dentist's office during a blackout, Kate makes a date with a stranger—and then discovers he's black.

A singing telegram provided more information than intended when Kate and Allie referee another family's dispute.

Chip feels he's being replaced when he finds out Charles' girlfriend Claire is pregnant.

A protest rally gives Allie a taste of what she missed during the '60s, while for Kate it's a march down memory lane.

Jenny gets more than she bargained for in her new job: a bonus of sexual harassment.

Allie jumps to conclusions when she discovers Kate with a former boyfriend who's now married.

Allie is so afraid of appearing on a talk show about modern families that she follows Kate's advice and goes to a hypnotist.

Kate and Allie are both attracted to the same lawyer.

Faced with a lonely Saturday night, Kate calls former boyfriend Ted on the pretense of returning a sweater.

Chip befriends a mentally handicapped man who's homeless and invites him to sleep in the basement.

Emma questions the importance of being elected class president when she learns that her opponent has leukemia.

Kate takes a cooking class given by a woman who also teaches acting, and studies psychology when not arguing with her mother about moving home.

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.

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.

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.

Kate's surprise birthday party is delayed while she recuperates in hospital, so Allie checks in to keep her company.

His bedside manner's irresistible, so Kate's in love...

The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.

Jennie's boyfriend is pressing her to go all the way, so it looks like time for the dreaded mother-daughter conversation.

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.

Kate and Allie recall their most famous fight, seventeen years ago -- during which Kate went into labour.

Jennie gets a chance to sing on cable tv -- if she can leap the hurdle of Allie's excessive enthusiasm.

Allie and her boss Eddie are stranded in the studio by a blizzard -- and must keep the show on the air.

While Kate's away on a business trip, an ex-football player makes a play for Allie.

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.

Allie triumphantly graduates from college, but learns that a diploma isn't necessarily a ticket to the job of her choice.

Jennie arranges a date for Emma. Kate and Allie interfere in Jennie and Emma's latest spat.

Emma has to decide between going to college at Columbia or UCLA.

At a singles bar, Allie becomes the target of a bet between three men on the prowl.

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.

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.""

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant

Kate and Allie panic when Chip's mouse gets loose.

Kate and Allie get a taste of how the other half lives---and loves---when they cater a society couple's 25th-anniversary party.

Arrogant businessman Jack Brompton hires the women to cater ""an authentic early American dinner for 24"" at his place in the Hamptons, then repeatedly changes the theme and menu from American Civil War to Victorian England. Jenny's video project on working women for her women's study course prompts fantasy sequences with Kate and Allie as immigrant women in a sweatshop and as WWII factory workers. Inspired to stand up for themselves, they confront Brompton about his shoddy treatment of them -- and discover that he is a henpecked husband only obeying his shrewish wife's whims.

Bob is in a panic because he feels he's not ready for marriage---which no one has mentioned.

Shaken by a friend's heart attack, Bob decides he should live life to the fullest---with Allie as his wife. Part 1 of two.

Conclusion. Allie can't decide whether to accept Bob's marriage proposal.

The series' 100th episode is celebrated with clips from past shows.

As the nervous bride-to-be, Allie has nightmares about meeting her fiancé's parents.

While honeymooners Allie and Bob fly off to Hawaii, Bob dumps Kate.

As Allie moves into her new high-rise condo, Kate interviews a potential housemate.

Kate is saved from perky Haven and Blair when Allie suggests that Kate move in.

Watching a tape of Bob's sportscast, Allie notices an attractive anchor making an on-air play for her husband.

Bob's mother questions Allie about having another child.

Kate spends her 40th birthday wondering what she has done with her life -- and, shaken by Emma's transfer to UCLA, decides to join the Peace Corps.

Kate organizes a block association to save a park.

Allie's reaction upon hearing that Jennie and her boyfriend are sharing a dorm room doesn't compare with her reaction when they announce they're getting married.

A rich neighbour offers a hefty sum to Kate and Allie if they can find her ""a Bob..""

Kate is dating a man with no charm, looks or personality, yet everyone loves him -- except Kate.

Kate has trouble keeping quiet about Bob's broadcasting future.

Chip is so thrilled to be associated with the ultracool Mike Sheridan that he becomes his partner in a scam.

Trying to mend a broken romance, Kate feigns love in front of the woman who dumped her neighbor -- but he thinks Kate's serious.

Allie discovers a condom in Chip's pocket.

Kate and Allie get a loan from Bob.

When Allie's sushi draws a bad review from a critic, Kate determines to please the man's palate to gain a retraction.

Kate reluctantly agrees to accompany Lou to his cousin's wedding.

While Allie prepares her entry for Cousin Cabot's Country Cookbook contest, Kate cooks up a way to help Lou.

Bob lets Chip join the hockey team without consulting Allie.

Allie's ex-boyfriend returns to New York for the opening of his off-Broadway play, which turns out to be based on their romance. Unfortunately for Allie, he has eyes only for Kate.

A job offer and a $2000 check from a man named Gabriel prompt Kate and Allie to take account of their lives.