Kate & Allie

Mar 19, 1984

Mar 26, 1984

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

Apr 16, 1984

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

Apr 23, 1984

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

Apr 30, 1984

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

May 7, 1984

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

Oct 8, 1984

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

Oct 15, 1984

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

Oct 22, 1984

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

Oct 29, 1984

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

Nov 5, 1984

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

Nov 12, 1984

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

Nov 19, 1984

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

Nov 26, 1984

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.

Dec 3, 1984

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

Dec 10, 1984

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.

Dec 31, 1984

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

Jan 7, 1985

Jan 14, 1985

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

Feb 4, 1985

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.

Feb 11, 1985

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

Feb 18, 1985

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.

Feb 25, 1985

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.

Mar 4, 1985

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.

Mar 11, 1985

Kate brings a stray kitten home.

Mar 18, 1985

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

Apr 8, 1985

Ted proposes to Kate.

May 6, 1985

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

Sep 30, 1985

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

Oct 7, 1985

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

Oct 14, 1985

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.

Oct 21, 1985

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

Oct 28, 1985

Allie receives devastating news about her father.

Nov 4, 1985

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.

Nov 11, 1985

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

Nov 25, 1985

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

Dec 2, 1985

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

Dec 16, 1985

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

Dec 23, 1985

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.

Jan 6, 1986

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

Jan 13, 1986

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

Jan 20, 1986

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

Jan 27, 1986

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

Feb 3, 1986

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

Feb 10, 1986

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

Feb 17, 1986

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

Feb 24, 1986

Kate and Allie are both attracted to the same lawyer.

Mar 3, 1986

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

Mar 17, 1986

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

Apr 7, 1986

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

May 12, 1986

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.

Sep 22, 1986

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.

Sep 29, 1986

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.

Oct 6, 1986

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.

Oct 13, 1986

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

Oct 20, 1986

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

Oct 27, 1986

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

Nov 3, 1986

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

Nov 10, 1986

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.

Nov 24, 1986

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

Dec 1, 1986

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

Dec 8, 1986

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

Dec 15, 1986

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

Jan 5, 1987

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.

Jan 26, 1987

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

Feb 2, 1987

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

Feb 9, 1987

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

Feb 16, 1987

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

Feb 23, 1987

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.

Mar 2, 1987

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.""

Mar 16, 1987

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.

Mar 23, 1987

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

Apr 6, 1987

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.

May 4, 1987

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.

May 11, 1987

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

May 18, 1987

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.

Sep 14, 1987

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.

Sep 21, 1987

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.

Sep 28, 1987

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.

Oct 5, 1987

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.

Oct 12, 1987

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.

Oct 19, 1987

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.

Oct 26, 1987

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

Nov 9, 1987

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

Nov 16, 1987

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.

Nov 23, 1987

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

Dec 7, 1987

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.

Dec 14, 1987

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.

Jan 4, 1988

Jan 11, 1988

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.

Jan 18, 1988

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

Feb 1, 1988

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

Feb 3, 1988

Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant

Feb 8, 1988

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

Feb 15, 1988

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

Feb 22, 1988

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.

Mar 14, 1988

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

Mar 21, 1988

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.

Mar 28, 1988

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

May 23, 1988

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

Dec 11, 1988

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

Dec 12, 1988

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

Dec 19, 1988

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

Dec 26, 1988

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

Jan 9, 1989

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

Jan 16, 1989

Bob's mother questions Allie about having another child.

Jan 23, 1989

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.

Jan 30, 1989

Kate organizes a block association to save a park.

Feb 6, 1989

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.

Feb 13, 1989

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

Feb 20, 1989

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

Feb 27, 1989

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

Mar 6, 1989

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

Mar 13, 1989

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

Mar 20, 1989

Allie discovers a condom in Chip's pocket.

Mar 27, 1989

Kate and Allie get a loan from Bob.

Apr 10, 1989

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

Apr 24, 1989

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

May 1, 1989

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

May 8, 1989

Bob lets Chip join the hockey team without consulting Allie.

May 15, 1989

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.

May 22, 1989

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