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

Kate & Allie: Season 5
 (1984)
TV Series  /  Comedy
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IMDB   6.9
600 mins USA / English
DVD    US - TV-PG
Jane Curtin Allie Lowell
Susan Saint James Kate McArdle
Frederick Koehler Chip Lowell
Allison Smith Jennie Lowell
Ari Meyers Emma McArdle
Sam Freed Bob Barsky
Gregory Salata Ted Bartolo
David Purdham Dennis
Zach Grenier
Debra Jo Rupp Toy Store Clerk
John Gabriel Peter Rutland
Scotty Bloch Joan
Henry Pincus
Paul Guilfoyle Benny Rinaldi
Dylan Walsh Steve
Jesse Corti Charles
Alice Drummond Mrs. Rinde
Dayton Callie Customer #2
Harsh Nayyar Newsstand Vendor
John Capodice Mac
Director
Bill Persky
Producer Merrill Grant
Mort Lachman
Bill Persky
Bob Randall
Writer Sherry Coben
Bob Randall
Anne Flett-Giordano
Chuck Ranberg
Musician John Loeffler
Ralph Schuckett

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    9/14/1987  1.  Fathers and Sons
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:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  James Seymour, Jason Allen, Nita Wilson-Klein, Ritchie Allan
 30 mins    9/21/1987  2.  The Dilemma with Emma
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:  Chuck Ranberg  /  Anne Flett-Giordano 
Guest starring:  Richard Joseph Paul
 30 mins    9/28/1987  3.  Kate and the Cab Driver
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  / Dennis DeBrito  Writer:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  David PurdhamRichard Council, Michael Chiappetta
 30 mins    10/5/1987  4.  Mother's Day
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  / Nita Wilson-Klein 
Guest starring:  Scotty Bloch, Marian Seldes
 30 mins    10/12/1987  5.  Return of Bob Barsky
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:  Chuck Ranberg  /  Anne Flett-Giordano 
Guest starring:  Zach Grenier
 30 mins    10/19/1987  6.  Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
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:  Chuck Ranberg  /  Bill Persky  / Anne Flett-Giordano  Writer:  Bill Persky  /  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  David PurdhamJesse Corti, Geraldine Court,  Bill Cwikowski, Tommy Ford, Robin McKay, Lenka Peterson, Robin McKee
 30 mins    10/26/1987  7.  Ted's Fix-Up
Kate and Angela fix each other up with each other's ex's, with surprising results.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Dana Persky 
Guest starring:  Kim Ameen, Richard Muenz, Mark Judge,  Gregory Salata
 30 mins    11/9/1987  8.  Jennie's New Deal
After Emma moves into the college dorm, Jennie feels cooped up living at home under her mother's rules.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Daryl V. Rowland 
Guest starring:  Noëlle Parker,  Henry Pincus, Maggie Welsh,  Dylan Walsh
 30 mins    11/16/1987  9.  Hired Wife
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:  Howard Korder 
Guest starring:  Ralph Byers,  John Gabriel, Ann McDonough, Elizabeth Perry, Bernie McInerney, Greg Chase
 30 mins    11/23/1987  10.  The Marriage Counselor
Bob suggests marriage counseling for the constantly bickering Kate and Allie.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  Dan Desmond,  Henry Pincus
 30 mins    12/7/1987  11.  The Triangle Has Four Sides
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:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  David PurdhamJohn Gabriel, Mitchell Greenberg,  Gregory Salata
 30 mins    12/14/1987  12.  The Nightmare Before Christmas
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:  Chuck Ranberg  /  Anne Flett-Giordano 
Guest starring:  Debra Jo Rupp, Vickilyn Reynolds,  Dayton Callie, Karen Shallo, Philip Amelio,  John C. Vennema
 30 mins    1/4/1988  13.  A Catered Affair
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Dick Goldberg 
Guest starring:  Patricia Elliott,  Kip Niven, Keith Charles, Bernard Barrow, Deedee Friedman, Gary Dennis, Alex Sawyer
 30 mins    1/11/1988  14.  The Band Singer
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:  Chuck Ranberg  /  Bob Randall  /  Anne Flett-Giordano 
Guest starring:  Jonathan Scherick, Al Checco,  Alice Drummond, Julie Satterfield, Nandrea Lin-Courts
 30 mins    1/18/1988  15.  Almost Married (a.k.a.) And Then There Were None
Ted invites everybody to his friends' cabin in the Adirondacks, but there's an escaped convict on the loose.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  L. Peter Callender, Danny O'Shea,  Gregory SalataDylan Walsh
 30 mins    2/1/1988  16.  My Day with Paul Newman
A film crew asks to use the front door in a movie
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Tony Lang 
Guest starring:  Paul GuilfoyleJune Stein, Todd Merrill,  John Capodice
 30 mins    2/3/1988  17.  The Namath of the Game
Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Chuck Ranberg  /  Anne Flett-Giordano 
Guest starring:  Marcia Lewis, Joe Namath, Kevin John Gee, Marguerite Kelly
 30 mins    2/8/1988  18.  The Mouse That Squeaked
Kate and Allie panic when Chip's mouse gets loose.
 30 mins    2/15/1988  19.  Inside Park Avenue
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:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  Kathleen Noone, David Bailey, Mary McCann
 30 mins    2/22/1988  20.  Working Women
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:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  Kenneth Ryan, Tess Lynch, Jill Larson
 30 mins    3/14/1988  21.  I Don't, I Don't
Bob is in a panic because he feels he's not ready for marriage---which no one has mentioned.
Writer:  Bob Randall 
 30 mins    3/21/1988  22.  Bob Smells the Roses
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:  Chuck Ranberg  /  Anne Flett-Giordano 
Guest starring:  Dennis Parlato,  Zach GrenierGregory Salata
 30 mins    3/28/1988  23.  Allie Makes Up Her Mind
Conclusion. Allie can't decide whether to accept Bob's marriage proposal.
Director:  Bill Persky  Writer:  Bob Randall 
Guest starring:  Scotty BlochPaul HechtGregory Salata
 30 mins    5/23/1988  24.  The Clip Show
The series' 100th episode is celebrated with clips from past shows.
Writer:  Bill Persky  /  Bob Randall 
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