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Kate & Allie: Season 3

Kate & Allie

Kate & Allie: Season 3

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


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1 The Reunion 30 min | Sep 30, 1985

Kate convinces Allie to accompany her to their 20th High School Reunion where Allie finds herself questioning her life's successes and failures.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall, Trish Vradenberg
Guest stars: James Rebhorn, Patricia Richardson, Marcia Jean Kurtz
2 Make Mine Mink 30 min | Oct 07, 1985

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.

Guest stars: Pamela Brook, Rita Taggart, Alan North
3 Whatever Happened to Romance? 30 min | Oct 14, 1985

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?

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano
Guest stars: James Patrick Gillis
4 Evening in Paris 30 min | Oct 21, 1985

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?

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: Daniel Lambert, Jacques Roux, Pierre Epstein, Bill Nelson
5 Picture of an Affair 30 min | Oct 28, 1985

Allie suspects her father might be having an affair but refuses to confront him with her fears.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: Robert Cornthwaite, Katie Anders
6 The Maltese Chotchke 30 min | Nov 04, 1985

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.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano
Guest stars: Larry Atlas, Donna Mitchell, Geoff Pierson
7 Allie's Affair 30 min | Nov 11, 1985

Allie becomes romantically involved with her poetry professor on a two-week teaching appointment at her university.

Guest stars: Franc Luz, Christa Miller Lawrence, Eric Tull
8 Thanksgiving 30 min | Nov 25, 1985

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.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano
Guest stars: James McDaniel
9 Max's New Girlfriend 30 min | Dec 02, 1985

Kate becomes jealous after Max's new model girlfriend Darla bonds with Emma.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Tula Demetra
Guest stars: Harley Venton, Fiona Gordon
10 Kate's Friend 30 min | Dec 16, 1985

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.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Sybil Adelman, Martin Sage, Mindy Glazer
Guest stars: Kathryn Grody, Donna Davis, Frank Hamilton, Tom Nardino, Peter Phillips
11 Dress to Kill 30 min | Dec 23, 1985

Via a flashback, Kate relates to a sympathetic dry cleaner how she came to accidentally stain a $900 dress.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Steven Kunes
Guest stars: Barton Heyman, Salem Ludwig, Victor Raider-Wexler, Rose Arrick, Libi Staiger, Elaine Kussack
12 Dark Victory 30 min | Jan 06, 1986

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.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: Stephen Pearlman, David L. King
13 Grand Central Station 30 min | Jan 13, 1986

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.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: Bruce Norris, Francine Beers, Allen Swift
14 Chip's Divorce 30 min | Jan 20, 1986

An announcement that Charles' new wife is expecting sends everyone--especially Chip--into a tizzy.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Dana Persky, Lorrie Shapiro
Guest stars: Michael O'Hare
15 Too Late the Rebel 30 min | Jan 27, 1986

Kate accompanies Allie to a protest at her university bringing with her her own unique memories of protesting in the 60s.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano
Guest stars: Kevin O'Rourke, Fran Brill, Lois Diane Hicks, Tudor Sherrard, Ben Stiller
16 The Croissant Jungle 30 min | Feb 03, 1986

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.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano
Guest stars: Christopher Marcantel, Dana Kaminski
17 Privacy 30 min | Feb 10, 1986

Craving solitude, Kate cat-sits for a friend but her secretive way of doing it has Allie convinced she's seeing a married man.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano
Guest stars: James Rebhorn
18 High Anxiety 30 min | Feb 17, 1986

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.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Peter Gethers, David Handler
Guest stars: Denise Bessette, Michael Bofshever, Stephen Bradbury, Dick Cavett, Keith Charles, Paul Gleason, Stephen Mendillo
19 Thank You, Shirley 30 min | Feb 24, 1986

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.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Jane Richmond
Guest stars: David Rasche, Mary Page Keller
20 Ted's Back 30 min | Mar 03, 1986

Feeling the empty nest syndrome, Kate gets back in touch with her old boyfriend Ted to give it another go.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: Todd Alexander, Angela Castle, Brent Katz
21 Chip's New Friend 30 min | Mar 17, 1986

Chip befriends a handicapped man and hides him in the basement.

Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano
22 Winning 30 min | Apr 07, 1986

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.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Norman Barasch
Guest stars: April Lerman, Trini Alvarado, Todd Parker., Josh Hamilton
23 Late Bloomer 30 min | May 12, 1986

Tired of everyone's criticism of her cooking, Kate hires a tutor to teach her culinary skills.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: Lindsay Wagner, Barbara Barrie, Sam Freed, Roger Bowen, Leo Postrel, Karl Taylor, Kelly Wolf, Dion Anderson, Mercedes Ruehl