Box set: Kate & Allie: The Complete Series
Barcode 773848552030
Release Date 2/23/2010

Kate & Allie: Season 3
 (1984)
TV Series  /  Comedy
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IMDB   6.9
562 mins USA / English
DVD    US - TV-PG
Jane Curtin Allie Lowell
Frederick Koehler Chip Lowell
Allison Smith Jennie Lowell
Ari Meyers Emma McArdle
Susan Saint James Kate McArdle
James Rebhorn Derek
Geoffrey Pierson Chandler
Wendie Malick Claire
Marcia Jean Kurtz Gloria
Christa Miller Student
Mary Page Keller Holly
Paul Hecht Charles Lowell
Ben Stiller Peter
Josh Hamilton Rick
David Rasche Richard Lubin
Paul Gleason Tom Fitzgerald
Michael Countryman Louis
Alan North Professor Sloan
Victor Raider-Wexler Vladimir Zhevchencho
Mercedes Ruehl Millie
Director
Bill Persky
Producer George Barimo
Bill Persky
Bob Randall
Merrill Grant
Writer Sherry Coben
Bob Randall
Anne Flett-Giordano
Chuck Ranberg

Kate and Allie, which ran on CBS from 19 March 1984 to 22 May 1989, was the brainchild of Sherry Coben who came up with the idea for the series while attending a high school reunion. There she noticed that a couple of divorcees who seemed unhappy and dissatisfied found comfort in sharing with each other. Coben worked with this germinal notion and successfully pitched the resulting script, originally entitled, "Two Mommies," to Michael Ogiens, then head of New York program development at CBS. Ogiens liked the script because it contained fresh material that dealt with a real issue of the day--single parenthood. Kate and Allie was an instant success, ranking fourth the week it debuted, garnering consistently high ratings thereafter, and earning Jane Curtin two consecutive Emmys and Bill Persky, one. The characters and the issues they dealt with obviously appealed to the program's audience. Saint James' character, Kate, is a woman recently divorced from her unstable and somewha
Episodes
 30 mins    9/30/1985  1.  The Reunion
Invited to their 20th high school reunion, Kate & Allie both go determined to settle old scores.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Bob Randall  / Trish Vradenberg 
Guest starring:  James Rebhorn, Patricia Richardson,  Marcia Jean Kurtz
 30 mins    10/7/1985  2.  Make Mine Mink
Kate ""inherits"" a lovely mink coat from a lover's quarrel and finds that it changes her lifestyle.
Guest starring:  Pamela Brook, Rita Taggart,  Alan North
 30 mins    10/14/1985  3.  Whatever Happened to Romance?
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:  Chuck Ranberg  /  Anne Flett-Giordano 
Guest starring:  James Patrick Gillis
 30 mins    10/21/1985  4.  Evening in Paris
On a free trip to Paris, Allie comes down with the flu while Jennie plans a rendezvous with a Frenchman.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  Daniel Lambert, Jacques Roux,  Pierre Epstein, Bill Nelson
 30 mins    10/28/1985  5.  Picture of An Affair
Allie receives devastating news about her father.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  Robert Cornthwaite, Katie Anders
 30 mins    11/4/1985  6.  The Maltese Chotchke
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:  Chuck Ranberg  /  Anne Flett-Giordano 
Guest starring:  Larry Atlas,  Donna MitchellGeoff Pierson
 30 mins    11/11/1985  7.  Allie's Affair
Allie's new professor from Ohio begins visiting on ""academic business"" but their relationship soon heats up, with surprising results.
Guest starring:  Franc Luz, Christa Miller Lawrence, Eric Tull
 30 mins    11/25/1985  8.  Thanksgiving
Kate and Allie invite a crowd for Thanksgiving dinner/disaster.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Chuck Ranberg  /  Anne Flett-Giordano 
Guest starring:  James McDaniel
 30 mins    12/2/1985  9.  Max's New Girlfriend
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:  Tula Demetra 
Guest starring:  Harley Venton, Fiona Gordon
 30 mins    12/16/1985  10.  Kate's Friend
Kate's old friend Betsy visits, and far outstays her welcome.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Sybil Adelman  / Martin Sage  / Mindy Glazer 
Guest starring:  Kathryn Grody, Donna Davis, Frank Hamilton, Tom Nardino, Peter Phillips
 30 mins    12/23/1985  11.  Dress to Kill
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:  Steven Kunes 
Guest starring:  Barton HeymanSalem LudwigVictor Raider-Wexler, Rose Arrick, Libi Staiger, Elaine Kussack
 30 mins    1/6/1986  12.  Dark Victory
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:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  Stephen Pearlman, David L. King
 30 mins    1/13/1986  13.  Grand Central Station
A singing telegram provided more information than intended when Kate and Allie referee another family's dispute.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  Bruce Norris, Francine Beers, Allen Swift
 30 mins    1/20/1986  14.  Chip's Divorce
Chip feels he's being replaced when he finds out Charles' girlfriend Claire is pregnant.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Dana Persky  / Lorrie Shapiro 
Guest starring:  Michael O'Hare
 30 mins    1/27/1986  15.  Too Late The Rebel
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:  Chuck Ranberg  /  Anne Flett-Giordano 
Guest starring:  Kevin O'Rourke,  Fran Brill, Lois Diane Hicks, Tudor Sherrard,  Ben Stiller
 30 mins    2/3/1986  16.  The Croissant Jungle
Jenny gets more than she bargained for in her new job: a bonus of sexual harassment.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Chuck Ranberg  /  Anne Flett-Giordano 
Guest starring:  Christopher Marcantel, Dana Kaminski
 30 mins    2/10/1986  17.  Privacy
Allie jumps to conclusions when she discovers Kate with a former boyfriend who's now married.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Chuck Ranberg  /  Anne Flett-Giordano 
Guest starring:  James Rebhorn
 30 mins    2/17/1986  18.  High Anxiety
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:  Peter Gethers  /  David Handler 
Guest starring:  Denise Bessette, Michael Bofshever, Stephen Bradbury,  Dick Cavett, Keith Charles,  Paul GleasonStephen Mendillo
 30 mins    2/24/1986  19.  Thank You, Shirley
Kate and Allie are both attracted to the same lawyer.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Jane Richmond 
Guest starring:  David RascheMary Page Keller
 30 mins    3/3/1986  20.  Ted's Back
Faced with a lonely Saturday night, Kate calls former boyfriend Ted on the pretense of returning a sweater.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  Todd Alexander, Angela Castle, Brent Katz
 30 mins    3/17/1986  21.  Chip's New Friend
Chip befriends a mentally handicapped man who's homeless and invites him to sleep in the basement.
 30 mins    4/7/1986  22.  Winning
Emma questions the importance of being elected class president when she learns that her opponent has leukemia.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Norman Barasch 
Guest starring:  April LermanTrini Alvarado, Todd Parker.,  Josh Hamilton
 30 mins    5/12/1986  23.  Late Bloomer
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:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  Lindsay WagnerBarbara BarrieSam FreedRoger Bowen, Leo Postrel, Karl Taylor, Kelly Wolf,  Dion AndersonMercedes Ruehl
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