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Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben.
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Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben.
Cast, crew and production details
Susan Saint JamesKatherine "Kate" McArdle
Jane CurtinAllison 'Allie' Lowell
Allison SmithJennie Lowell
Frederick KoehlerCharles "Chip" Lowell
Ari MeyersEmma McArdle
David Moscow
Franc Luz
Alan North
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Episode 1
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.
Directed by Bill PerskyGuest stars Richie Allan
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 2
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.
Directed by Bill PerskyWritten by Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 3
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.
Directed by Bill PerskyGuest stars David Purdham
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 4
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.
Directed by Bill PerskyWritten by Marco PennetteGuest stars Marian Seldes
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 5
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.
Directed by Bill PerskyWritten by Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck RanbergGuest stars Zach Grenier
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 6
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.
Directed by Bill PerskyGuest stars Lenka Peterson, Robin McKee, Jesse Corti
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 7
Kate and Angela fix each other up with each other's ex's, with surprising results.
Directed by Bill PerskyGuest stars Gregory Salata
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 8
After Emma moves into the college dorm, Jennie feels cooped up living at home under her mother's rules.
Directed by Bill PerskyGuest stars Dylan Walsh
Where to watch Kate & Allie
Episode 9
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.
Directed by Bill Persky
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 10
Bob suggests marriage counseling for the constantly bickering Kate and Allie.
Directed by Bill PerskyGuest stars Dan Desmond
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 11
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.
Directed by Bill PerskyGuest stars Gregory Salata, John Gabriel
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 12
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.
Directed by Bill PerskyWritten by Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck RanbergGuest stars Vickilyn Reynolds, Philip Amelio, Debra Jo Rupp, Karen Shallo, John C. Vennema
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 13
Directed by Bill PerskyGuest stars Bernard Barrow, Keith Charles, Alex Sawyer
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 14
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.
Directed by Bill PerskyWritten by Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck RanbergGuest stars Alice Drummond
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 15
Ted invites everybody to his friends' cabin in the Adirondacks, but there's an escaped convict on the loose.
Directed by Bill PerskyGuest stars Gregory Salata, Dylan Walsh
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 16
A film crew asks to use the front door in a movie
Directed by Bill PerskyGuest stars John Capodice, Paul Guilfoyle
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 17
Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant
Directed by Bill PerskyWritten by Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck RanbergGuest stars Marcia Lewis, Joe Namath
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 18
Kate and Allie panic when Chip's mouse gets loose.
Directed by Bill PerskyWritten by Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 19
Kate and Allie get a taste of how the other half lives---and loves---when they cater a society couple's 25th-anniversary party.
Directed by Bill PerskyGuest stars David Bailey, Kathleen Noone, Tristine Skyler
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 20
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.
Directed by Bill Persky
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 21
Bob is in a panic because he feels he's not ready for marriage---which no one has mentioned.
Directed by Bill Persky
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 22
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.
Directed by Bill PerskyWritten by Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck RanbergGuest stars Zach Grenier
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 23
Conclusion. Allie can't decide whether to accept Bob's marriage proposal.
Directed by Bill PerskyGuest stars Gregory Salata, Paul Hecht
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode 24
The series' 100th episode is celebrated with clips from past shows.
Directed by Bill Persky
Where to watch Kate & AllieEpisode information updated Jul 22, 2026
