The Best Episodes of Kate & Allie Season 5

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   6.2/10(81 votes)

   #1 - Fathers and Sons

   S5:E19/14/1987

   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

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2. 

   7.4/10(82 votes)

   #2 - The Dilemma with Emma

   S5:E29/21/1987

   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

   Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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   Director:Bill Persky

   Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
3. 

   5.6/10(80 votes)

   #3 - Kate and the Cab Driver

   S5:E39/28/1987

   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:Unknown

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4. 

   7.7/10(82 votes)

   #4 - Mother's Day

   S5:E410/5/1987

   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

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   Director:Bill Persky

   Writer:Marco Pennette
5. 

   6.9/10(80 votes)

   #5 - Return of Bob Barsky

   S5:E510/12/1987

   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

   Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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   Director:Bill Persky

   Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
6. 

   7.9/10(94 votes)

   #6 - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

   S5:E610/19/1987

   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:Unknown

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   7.1/10(79 votes)

   #7 - Ted's Fix-Up

   S5:E710/26/1987

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

   Director:Bill Persky

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.4/10(85 votes)

   #8 - Jennie's New Deal

   S5:E811/9/1987

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

   Director:Bill Persky

   Writer:Unknown

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   6.7/10(78 votes)

   #9 - Hired Wife

   S5:E911/16/1987

   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:Unknown

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10. 

    7.0/10(75 votes)

    #10 - The Marriage Counselor

    S5:E1011/23/1987

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

    Director:Bill Persky

    Writer:Unknown

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11. 

    7.7/10(76 votes)

    #11 - The Triangle Has Four Sides

    S5:E1112/7/1987

    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:Unknown

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12. 

    7.3/10(83 votes)

    #12 - The Nightmare Before Christmas

    S5:E1212/14/1987

    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

    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
13. 

    7.3/10(78 votes)

    #13 - A Catered Affair

    S5:E131/4/1988

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    Director:Bill Persky

    Writer:Unknown

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14. 

    7.7/10(79 votes)

    #14 - The Band Singer

    S5:E141/11/1988

    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

    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
15. 

    8.1/10(76 votes)

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

    S5:E151/18/1988

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

    Director:Bill Persky

    Writer:Unknown

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16. 

    7.0/10(78 votes)

    #16 - My Day with Paul Newman

    S5:E162/1/1988

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

    Director:Bill Persky

    Writer:Unknown

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17. 

    6.7/10(77 votes)

    #17 - The Namath of the Game

    S5:E172/3/1988

    Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant

    Director:Bill Persky

    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
18. 

    7.1/10(78 votes)

    #18 - The Mouse That Squeaked

    S5:E182/8/1988

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

    Director:Bill Persky

    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
19. 

    7.5/10(77 votes)

    #19 - Inside Park Avenue

    S5:E192/15/1988

    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:Unknown

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20. 

    7.0/10(76 votes)

    #20 - Working Women

    S5:E202/22/1988

    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:Unknown

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21. 

    6.6/10(79 votes)

    #21 - I Don't, I Don't

    S5:E213/14/1988

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

    Director:Bill Persky

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22. 

    7.3/10(77 votes)

    #22 - Bob Smells the Roses

    S5:E223/21/1988

    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

    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg

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    Writers:Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
23. 

    6.3/10(78 votes)

    #23 - Allie Makes Up Her Mind

    S5:E233/28/1988

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

    Director:Bill Persky

    Writer:Unknown

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24. 

    7.5/10(81 votes)

    #24 - The Clip Show

    S5:E245/23/1988

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

    Director:Bill Persky

    Writer:Unknown

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