The Best Episodes of Kate & Allie

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.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

Kate and Allie get a loan from Bob.

Director: Linda Day

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Marco Pennette

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

Director: Linda Day

Writer: Michael Gordon

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

Director: Linda Day

Writer: Bernie Orenstein

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Linda Day

Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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

Director: Linda Day

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A