6.0/1078 votes#1 - Fathers and Sons
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1987
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.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1079 votes
#2 - The Dilemma with Emma
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1987
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
- 5.2/1077 votes
#3 - Kate and the Cab Driver
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1987
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.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1079 votes
#4 - Mother's Day
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1987
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
- 6.6/1077 votes
#5 - Return of Bob Barsky
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1987
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.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
- 7.7/1091 votes
#6 - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1987
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
- 6.8/1076 votes
#7 - Ted's Fix-Up
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1987
Kate and Angela fix each other up with each other's ex's, with surprising results.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1081 votes
#8 - Jennie's New Deal
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1987
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
6.5/1075 votes#9 - Hired Wife
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1987
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.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1072 votes
#10 - The Marriage Counselor
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1987
Bob suggests marriage counseling for the constantly bickering Kate and Allie.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1073 votes
#11 - The Triangle Has Four Sides
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1987
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.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1079 votes
#12 - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1987
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.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
- 6.8/1075 votes
#13 - A Catered Affair
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1988
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Director: Bill Persky
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1075 votes
#14 - The Band Singer
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1988
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
- 7.9/1073 votes
#15 - Almost Married (a.k.a.) And Then There Were None
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1988
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
- 6.5/1075 votes
#16 - My Day with Paul Newman
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/1988
A film crew asks to use the front door in a movie
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1074 votes
#17 - The Namath of the Game
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/3/1988
Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
- 6.8/1075 votes
#18 - The Mouse That Squeaked
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/8/1988
Kate and Allie panic when Chip's mouse gets loose.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
- 7.2/1074 votes
#19 - Inside Park Avenue
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1988
Kate and Allie get a taste of how the other half lives---and loves---when they cater a society couple's 25th-anniversary party.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1073 votes
#20 - Working Women
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/1988
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.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1076 votes
#21 - I Don't, I Don't
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/14/1988
Bob is in a panic because he feels he's not ready for marriage---which no one has mentioned.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1074 votes
#22 - Bob Smells the Roses
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 3/21/1988
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.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
- 5.8/1075 votes
#23 - Allie Makes Up Her Mind
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 3/28/1988
Conclusion. Allie can't decide whether to accept Bob's marriage proposal.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1079 votes
#24 - The Clip Show
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/23/1988
The series' 100th episode is celebrated with clips from past shows.
Director: Bill Persky
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Kate & Allie Season 5
Every episode of Kate & Allie Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Kate & Allie Season 5!
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Fathers and Sons" is the best rated episode of "Kate & Allie" season 5. It scored 6/10 based on 78 votes. Directed by Bill Persky and written by N/A, it aired on 9/14/1987. This episode is rated 1.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Dilemma with Emma".