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The Best Episodes of Kate & Allie Season 4

Every episode of Kate & Allie Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Kate & Allie Season 4!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 24 - Charles' Dinner
    7.6/10(36 votes)

    S4:E24

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

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 3 - The Bully
    7.5/10(39 votes)

    S4:E3

    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.

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 13 - Gift of the Magi
    7.5/10(37 votes)

    S4:E13

    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:Unknown

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  4. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 20 - Send Me No Flowers
    7.5/10(36 votes)

    S4:E20

    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:Unknown

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  5. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 14 - Allie's Graduation
    7.4/10(39 votes)

    S4:E14

    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:Unknown

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  6. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 4 - General Hospital
    7.3/10(41 votes)

    S4:E4

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

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 6 - Halloween II
    7.3/10(46 votes)

    S4:E6

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

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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  8. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 5 - Rx for Love
    7.2/10(33 votes)

    S4:E5

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

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 7 - Jennie and Jason
    7.2/10(39 votes)

    S4:E7

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

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 8 - Bringing Up Charles
    7.2/10(38 votes)

    S4:E8

    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.

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 25 - Allie's Surprise Party
    7.2/10(32 votes)

    S4:E25

    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.

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 12 - Dates of Future Past
    7.1/10(38 votes)

    S4:E12

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

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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  13. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 16 - Emma Goes to College
    7.1/10(39 votes)

    S4:E16

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

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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  14. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 2 - Found Money
    7.0/10(34 votes)

    S4:E2

    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.

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 10 - Stage Mother
    7.0/10(41 votes)

    S4:E10

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

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Bill Richmond

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  16. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 18 - Louis in Love
    7.0/10(33 votes)

    S4:E18

    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.

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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  17. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 21 - Dearly Beloved
    7.0/10(30 votes)

    S4:E21

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

    Directors:David Trainer, Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 15 - Upstairs, Downstairs
    6.8/10(39 votes)

    S4:E15

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

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 23 - Kate Quits
    6.8/10(34 votes)

    S4:E23

    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.

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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  20. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 19 - Reruns
    6.7/10(41 votes)

    S4:E19

    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.""

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 22 - Allie on Strike
    6.7/10(35 votes)

    S4:E22

    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.

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 9 - Emma's Coming Out Party
    6.5/10(42 votes)

    S4:E9

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

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 1 - The Trouble With Jason
    6.4/10(38 votes)

    S4:E1

    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.

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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  24. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 11 - The Goodbye Girl
    6.4/10(39 votes)

    S4:E11

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

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Kate & Allie Season 4 Episode 17 - Allie and the Three Wolves
    6.4/10(36 votes)

    S4:E17

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

    Director:Bill Persky
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Charles' Dinner" is the best rated episode of "Kate & Allie" season 4. It scored 7.6/10 based on 36 votes. Directed by Bill Persky and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/11/1987. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Bully".