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Kate & Allie: Season 5

Kate & Allie

Kate & Allie: Season 5

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 Fathers and Sons 30 min | Sep 14, 1987

A grown up Chip relates to his son the time he failed science class and the silly lengths he went to in order to hide it.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: James Seymour, Jason Allen, Nita Wilson-Klein, Ritchie Allan
2 The Dilemma with Emma 30 min | Sep 21, 1987

Kate faces a classic mother-daughter crisis when Emma brings home a new boyfriend that she cannot stand.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano
Guest stars: Richard Joseph Paul
3 Kate and the Cab Driver 30 min | Sep 28, 1987

Kate begins dating a carefree, Bohemian cab driver but finds it difficult to accept his lackadaisical lifestyle.

Director: Bill Persky, Dennis DeBrito
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: David Purdham, Richard Council, Michael Chiappetta
4 Mother's Day 30 min | Oct 05, 1987

Kate and Allie begrudgingly invite their mothers over to help them do a catering job.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Marco Pennette, Nita Wilson-Klein
Guest stars: Scotty Bloch, Marian Seldes
5 Return of Bob Barsky 30 min | Oct 12, 1987

Allie is delighted to find out Bob Barsky has moved to New York but is disappointed when he wants to keep seeing other people.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano
Guest stars: Zach Grenier
6 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? 30 min | Oct 19, 1987

Allie experiences another way of life when she leaves her purse in a cab and must walk home perceived as a homeless person.

Director: Chuck Ranberg, Bill Persky, Anne Flett-Giordano
Writer: Bill Persky, Bob Randall
Guest stars: David Purdham, Jesse Corti, Geraldine Court, Bill Cwikowski, Tommy Ford, Robin McKay, Lenka Peterson, Robin McKee
7 Ted's Fix-Up 30 min | Oct 26, 1987

Kate regrets setting up her new girlfriend with her ex-boyfriend Ted.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Dana Persky
Guest stars: Kim Ameen, Richard Muenz, Mark Judge, Gregory Salata
8 Jennie's New Deal 30 min | Nov 09, 1987

Emma moves into the dorm when a spot opens up, leaving Jennie unhappily at home under Allie's thumb.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Daryl V. Rowland
Guest stars: Noëlle Parker, Henry Pincus, Maggie Welsh, Dylan Walsh
9 Hired Wife 30 min | Nov 16, 1987

Kate agrees to pose as the wife of a businessman seeking a promotion, but things become complicated when she falls for his co-worker.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Howard Korder
Guest stars: Ralph Byers, John Gabriel, Ann McDonough, Elizabeth Perry, Bernie McInerney, Greg Chase, Greg Chase
10 The Marriage Counselor 30 min | Nov 23, 1987

Constant bickering finds Allie and Kate going to a marriage counselor to resolve tension in the household.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: Dan Desmond, Henry Pincus
11 The Triangle Has Four Sides 30 min | Dec 07, 1987

Dating in the 80s: Kate juggles two dates at once while trying to figure out which one she likes more.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: David Purdham, John Gabriel, Mitchell Greenberg, Gregory Salata
12 The Nightmare Before Christmas 30 min | Dec 14, 1987

The family decides to forgo a traditional Christmas in favor of a ski trip and commit to hiring themselves out as helper elves for other people's holiday celebrations.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano
Guest stars: Debra Jo Rupp, Vickilyn Reynolds, Dayton Callie, Karen Shallo, Philip Amelio, John C. Vennema
13 A Catered Affair 30 min | Jan 04, 1988

Taken to court, Kate and Allie recount to a judge how they inadvertently exposed the infidelity of one of their catering clients.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Dick Goldberg
Guest stars: Patricia Elliott, Kip Niven, Keith Charles, Bernard Barrow, Deedee Friedman, Gary Dennis, Alex Sawyer
14 The Band Singer 30 min | Jan 11, 1988

Jennie goes to great lengths to woo the manager of her new band, including a couple of drastic image makeovers.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Bob Randall, Anne Flett-Giordano
Guest stars: Jonathan Scherick, Al Checco, Alice Drummond, Julie Satterfield, Nandrea Lin-Courts
15 Almost Married 30 min | Jan 18, 1988

Kate and Allie head to the woods with their boyfriends but the group arrives to find it a little more rustic than they had hoped.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: L. Peter Callender, Danny O'Shea, Gregory Salata, Dylan Walsh
16 My Day with Paul Newman 30 min | Feb 01, 1988

Allie loses her cool when a movie is filming outside her door with Paul Newman.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Tony Lang
Guest stars: Paul Guilfoyle, June Stein, Todd Merrill, John Capodice
17 The Namath of the Game 30 min | Feb 03, 1988

Kate and Allie's friendship and working relationship are put to the test when Kate accepts a job as Joe Namath's personal assistant. Joe Namath appears as himself.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano
Guest stars: Marcia Lewis, Joe Namath, Kevin John Gee, Marguerite Kelly
18 The Mouse That Squeaked 30 min | Feb 08, 1988

Chip brings home a mouse from school which escapes into the apartment.

Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano
19 Inside Park Avenue 30 min | Feb 15, 1988

A high-end catering job on Park Avenue finds Kate and Allie keeping a hormonal husband at bay in the midst of his wedding anniversary.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: Kathleen Noone, David Bailey, Mary McCann
20 Working Women 30 min | Feb 22, 1988

Jennie's college project documenting modern-day working women cause Kate and Allie to reflect on their female forebears.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: Kenneth Ryan, Tess Lynch, Tess Lynch, Jill Larson
21 I Don't, I Don't 30 min | Mar 14, 1988

Bob starts to get panicky about his relationship with Allie when he realizes he has inadvertently become a member of the family.

Writer: Bob Randall
22 Bob Smells the Roses 30 min | Mar 21, 1988

When his close friend has a near-fatal heart attack, Bob decides to embrace life--much to the chagrin of Allie and everyone else.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano
Guest stars: Dennis Parlato, Zach Grenier, Gregory Salata
23 Allie Makes Up Her Mind 30 min | Mar 28, 1988

Kate's premature engagement party for Allie gives Allie cold feet about accepting Bob's marriage proposal.

Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Bob Randall
Guest stars: Scotty Bloch, Paul Hecht, Gregory Salata
24 The Clip Show 30 min | May 23, 1988

The cast of Kate & Allie sit down with the audience to take them through their favorite moments over the course of the series, including some bloopers.

Writer: Bill Persky, Bob Randall