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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!

Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on...
Genres:ComedyDramaFamily
Network:CBS
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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Fathers and Sons" is the best rated episode of "Kate & Allie" season 5. It scored 5.9/10 based on 79 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".

  • Fathers and Sons
    5.9/10(79)

    #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

  • The Dilemma with Emma
    7.1/10(80)

    #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

  • Kate and the Cab Driver
    5.2/10(78)

    #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

  • Mother's Day
    7.4/10(80)

    #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

  • Return of Bob Barsky
    6.5/10(78)

    #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

  • Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
    7.6/10(92)

    #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

  • Ted's Fix-Up
    6.6/10(77)

    #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

  • Jennie's New Deal
    7.0/10(82)

    #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

  • Hired Wife
    6.4/10(76)

    #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

  • The Marriage Counselor
    6.3/10(73)

    #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

  • The Triangle Has Four Sides
    7.0/10(74)

    #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

  • The Nightmare Before Christmas
    6.6/10(80)

    #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

  • A Catered Affair
    6.6/10(76)

    #13 - A Catered Affair

    Season 5 Episode 13

    Aired 1/4/1988

    No description available

    Director: Bill Persky

    Writer: N/A

  • The Band Singer
    7.2/10(77)

    #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

  • Almost Married (a.k.a.) And Then There Were None
    7.6/10(74)

    #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

  • My Day with Paul Newman
    6.5/10(76)

    #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

  • The Namath of the Game
    6.1/10(75)

    #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

  • The Mouse That Squeaked
    6.6/10(76)

    #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

  • Inside Park Avenue
    7.0/10(75)

    #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

  • Working Women
    6.4/10(74)

    #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

  • I Don't, I Don't
    6.1/10(77)

    #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

  • Bob Smells the Roses
    6.5/10(75)

    #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

  • Allie Makes Up Her Mind
    5.7/10(76)

    #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

  • The Clip Show
    7.2/10(80)

    #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