Every season of Kate & Allie ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Kate & Allie!

Allie's First Date

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

The Very Loud Family

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

Odd Boy Out

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

The Family Business

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

Dear Diary

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

A Weekend to Remember

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

Baby

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

Landlady

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

Diner

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

Lottsa Luck

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

Candidate

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

Kate and the Plumber

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

The Safe Caper

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.

Pirates

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

Country Dog

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"" â€” but who strikes a note of discord when he becomes more interested in Kate than in his pupil.

Piano Lesson

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

New Year's Eve

Back to School

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

Charles Marries Claire

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 firedâ€”whereupon Kate threatens to quit.

If She Goes, I Go

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

Rear Window

Guess who's coming to dinner? Kate's potential step-mom. But when Kate takes an instant dislike to her father's fiancÃ©e, he calls the engagement off.

Lovely Rita

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.

Sons and Lovers

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.

Author, Author

Dead Cat

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

The Bad Seed

Goodbye, Plumber

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

My Dinner With Kate and Allie

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

The Reunion

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

Make Mine Mink

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.

Whatever Happened to Romance?

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

Evening in Paris

Allie receives devastating news about her father.

Picture of An Affair

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.

The Maltese Chotchke

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

Allie's Affair

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

Thanksgiving

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

Max's New Girlfriend

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

Kate's Friend

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.

Dress to Kill

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

Dark Victory

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

Grand Central Station

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

Chip's Divorce

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

Too Late The Rebel

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

The Croissant Jungle

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

Privacy

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

High Anxiety

Kate and Allie are both attracted to the same lawyer.

Thank You, Shirley

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

Ted's Back

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

Chip's New Friend

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

Winning

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.

Late Bloomer

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.

The Trouble With Jason

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.

Found Money

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.

The Bully

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

General Hospital

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

Rx for Love

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

Halloween II

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

Jennie and Jason

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.

Bringing Up Charles

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

Emma's Coming Out Party

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

Stage Mother

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

The Goodbye Girl

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

Dates of Future Past

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.

Gift of the Magi

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

Allie's Graduation

Jennie arranges a date for Emma.

Kate and Allie interfere in Jennie and Emma's latest spat.

Upstairs, Downstairs

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

Emma Goes to College

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

Allie and the Three Wolves

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.

Louis in Love

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.""

Reruns

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.

Send Me No Flowers

To dig up enough money for a date, Chip opens a pet cemetery.

To finance a date, Chip starts a pet-burial service.

Dearly Beloved

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.

Allie on Strike

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.

Kate Quits

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

Charles' Dinner

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.

Allie's Surprise Party

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.

Fathers and Sons

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.

The Dilemma with Emma

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.

Kate and the Cab Driver

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.

Mother's Day

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.

Return of Bob Barsky

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.

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

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

Ted's Fix-Up

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

Jennie's New Deal

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.

Hired Wife

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

The Marriage Counselor

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.

The Triangle Has Four Sides

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.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

A Catered Affair

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.

The Band Singer

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

Almost Married (a.k.a.) And Then There Were None

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

My Day with Paul Newman

Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant

The Namath of the Game

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

The Mouse That Squeaked

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

Inside Park Avenue

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.

Working Women

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

I Don't, I Don't

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.

Bob Smells the Roses

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

Allie Makes Up Her Mind

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

The Clip Show

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.

The Best Seasons of Kate & Allie

The Best Seasons of Kate & Allie

Season 1

Season 5

Season 4

Season 2

Season 3

Season 6