The Best Episodes of Kate & Allie Season 3

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 invite a crowd for Thanksgiving dinner/disaster.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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

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.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Karyl Miller

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

Kate and Allie are both attracted to the same lawyer.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

Allie receives devastating news about her father.

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bill Persky

Writer: N/A