| 1. | Kate & Allie: Season 1 | 1984 |
| 2. | Kate & Allie: Season 2 | 1984 |
| 3. | Kate & Allie: Season 3 | 1984 |
| 4. | Kate & Allie: Season 4 | 1986 |
| 5. | Kate & Allie: Season 5 | 1984 |
| 6. | Kate & Allie: Season 6 | 1984 |
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
Kate convinces Allie to accompany her to their 20th High School Reunion where Allie finds herself questioning her life's successes and failures.
A mink coat throws Kate's life into chaos when a case of mistaken identity leaves her having to make a huge presentation at work.
Jenny and Emma create a fictitious person to answer a romantic personal ad in the newspaper, but what will they do when Mr. Whatever Happened to Romance wants to meet?
Allie is ecstatic when Charles gives her and Jenny tickets to Paris for the weekend, but will a sudden attack of the flu stop her from taking in the City of Lights?
Allie suspects her father might be having an affair but refuses to confront him with her fears.
Emma's birthday present from her dad throws the whole house into chaos when art buyers, smugglers and cops come out of the woodwork trying to get it off her.
Allie becomes romantically involved with her poetry professor on a two-week teaching appointment at her university.
Allie is set to host a slew of guests for Thanksgiving including Charles' new wife Claire, but when everyone else cancels and Charles is called to work, Allie and Claire get some long-awaited bonding time.
Kate becomes jealous after Max's new model girlfriend Darla bonds with Emma.
Allie is run ragged when a good friend of Kate's arrives in New York and imposes on the household (mostly Allie) while apartment-hunting.
Via a flashback, Kate relates to a sympathetic dry cleaner how she came to accidentally stain a $900 dress.
Kate questions just how liberal she is when she agrees to go out with a man she met during a power outage who is black.
The apartment becomes the scene of a family melodrama when an aspiring actor delivering a singing telegram for Allie and his overbearing parents descend upon the household.
An announcement that Charles' new wife is expecting sends everyone--especially Chip--into a tizzy.
Kate accompanies Allie to a protest at her university bringing with her her own unique memories of protesting in the 60s.
Jennie's first job in a café finds her having to contend with a lecherous boss and Allie forced to let her fight her own battles.
Craving solitude, Kate cat-sits for a friend but her secretive way of doing it has Allie convinced she's seeing a married man.
Allie's fear of public speaking gets the better of her when a producer friend of Kate's tries to do a television exposé on Kate and Allie as an example of the new, modern family of the 80s.
Kate and Allie find themselves vying for the attentions of the same guy after Kate's meddling cousin in California sets her up with a blind date who turns out to be cute and charming.
Feeling the empty nest syndrome, Kate gets back in touch with her old boyfriend Ted to give it another go.
Chip befriends a handicapped man and hides him in the basement.
Emma launches herself into the campaign for class president with Jenny's help, but considers dropping out when she learns a secret about her opponent.
Tired of everyone's criticism of her cooking, Kate hires a tutor to teach her culinary skills.
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Jane Curtin | Allie Lowell |
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Frederick Koehler | Chip Lowell |
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Allison Smith | Jennie Lowell |
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Susan Saint James | Kate McArdle |
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Ari Meyers | Emma McArdle |
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James Rebhorn | Derek |
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Geoffrey Pierson | Chandler |
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Wendie Malick | Claire |
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Paul Hecht | Charles Lowell |
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Ben Stiller | Peter |
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Josh Hamilton | Rick |
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Paul Gleason | Tom Fitzgerald |
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David Rasche | Richard Lubin |
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Marcia Jean Kurtz | Gloria |
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Dick Cavett | Dick Cavett |
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Mercedes Ruehl | Millie |
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Michael Countryman | Louis |
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Alan North | Mr. Sloan |
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Donna Mitchell | Samantha |
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Victor Raider-Wexler | Vladimir Zhevchencho |
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Eve Gordon | Janet |
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Stephen Pearlman | Arthur |
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Barton Heyman | O'Callaghan |
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Tara Hugo | Classmate |
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Michael Bofshever |
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