| 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
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.
Kate faces a classic mother-daughter crisis when Emma brings home a new boyfriend that she cannot stand.
Kate begins dating a carefree, Bohemian cab driver but finds it difficult to accept his lackadaisical lifestyle.
Kate and Allie begrudgingly invite their mothers over to help them do a catering job.
Allie is delighted to find out Bob Barsky has moved to New York but is disappointed when he wants to keep seeing other people.
Allie experiences another way of life when she leaves her purse in a cab and must walk home perceived as a homeless person.
Kate regrets setting up her new girlfriend with her ex-boyfriend Ted.
Emma moves into the dorm when a spot opens up, leaving Jennie unhappily at home under Allie's thumb.
Kate agrees to pose as the wife of a businessman seeking a promotion, but things become complicated when she falls for his co-worker.
Constant bickering finds Allie and Kate going to a marriage counselor to resolve tension in the household.
Dating in the 80s: Kate juggles two dates at once while trying to figure out which one she likes more.
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.
Taken to court, Kate and Allie recount to a judge how they inadvertently exposed the infidelity of one of their catering clients.
Jennie goes to great lengths to woo the manager of her new band, including a couple of drastic image makeovers.
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.
Allie loses her cool when a movie is filming outside her door with Paul Newman.
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.
Chip brings home a mouse from school which escapes into the apartment.
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.
Jennie's college project documenting modern-day working women cause Kate and Allie to reflect on their female forebears.
Bob starts to get panicky about his relationship with Allie when he realizes he has inadvertently become a member of the family.
When his close friend has a near-fatal heart attack, Bob decides to embrace life--much to the chagrin of Allie and everyone else.
Kate's premature engagement party for Allie gives Allie cold feet about accepting Bob's marriage proposal.
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.
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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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Sam Freed | Bob Barsky |
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Gregory Salata | Ted Bartelo |
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David Purdham | Dennis |
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Zach Grenier | Engineer |
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Debra Jo Rupp | Toy Store Clerk |
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John Gabriel | Peter Rutland |
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Scotty Bloch | Joan |
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Henry Pincus | Brian |
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Paul Guilfoyle | Benny Rinaldi |
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Jesse Corti | Charles |
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Dylan Walsh | Steve |
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Alice Drummond | Mrs. Rinde |
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Dayton Callie | Customer #2 |
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Harsh Nayyar | Newsstand Vendor |
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John Capodice | Mac |
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Marian Seldes | Marion |
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Bernie McInerney | Mr. Hartzman |
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Jill Larson | Felicia Brompton |
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Al Checco | George Rinde |
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Richard Council | Jerry |
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