Kate & Allie - Season 5

Kate & Allie - Season 5

Season 5

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Episodes24
DatesSep 14, 1987 - May 23, 1988
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Episodes

Fathers and Sons
Season 5Episode 130 min

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.
Sep 14, 1987
The Dilemma with Emma
Season 5Episode 230 min

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.
Sep 21, 1987
Kate and the Cab Driver
Season 5Episode 330 min

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.
Sep 28, 1987
Mother's Day
Season 5Episode 430 min

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.
Oct 5, 1987
Return of Bob Barsky
Season 5Episode 530 min

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.
Oct 12, 1987
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Season 5Episode 630 min

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.
Oct 19, 1987
Ted's Fix-Up
Season 5Episode 730 min

Ted's Fix-Up

Kate and Angela fix each other up with each other's ex's, with surprising results.
Oct 26, 1987
Jennie's New Deal
Season 5Episode 830 min

Jennie's New Deal

After Emma moves into the college dorm, Jennie feels cooped up living at home under her mother's rules.
Nov 9, 1987
Hired Wife
Season 5Episode 930 min

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.
Nov 16, 1987
The Marriage Counselor
Season 5Episode 1030 min

The Marriage Counselor

Bob suggests marriage counseling for the constantly bickering Kate and Allie.
Nov 23, 1987
The Triangle Has Four Sides
Season 5Episode 1130 min

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.
Dec 7, 1987
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Season 5Episode 1230 min

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.
Dec 14, 1987
A Catered Affair
Season 5Episode 1330 min

A Catered Affair

Jan 4, 1988
The Band Singer
Season 5Episode 1430 min

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.
Jan 11, 1988
Almost Married (a.k.a.) And Then There Were None
Season 5Episode 1530 min

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.
Jan 18, 1988
My Day with Paul Newman
Season 5Episode 1630 min

My Day with Paul Newman

A film crew asks to use the front door in a movie
Feb 1, 1988
The Namath of the Game
Season 5Episode 1730 min

The Namath of the Game

Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant
Feb 3, 1988
The Mouse That Squeaked
Season 5Episode 1830 min

The Mouse That Squeaked

Kate and Allie panic when Chip's mouse gets loose.
Feb 8, 1988
Inside Park Avenue
Season 5Episode 1930 min

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.
Feb 15, 1988
Working Women
Season 5Episode 2030 min

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.
Feb 22, 1988
I Don't, I Don't
Season 5Episode 2130 min

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.
Mar 14, 1988
Bob Smells the Roses
Season 5Episode 2230 min

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.
Mar 21, 1988
Allie Makes Up Her Mind
Season 5Episode 2330 min

Allie Makes Up Her Mind

Conclusion. Allie can't decide whether to accept Bob's marriage proposal.
Mar 28, 1988
The Clip Show
Season 5Episode 2430 min

The Clip Show

The series' 100th episode is celebrated with clips from past shows.
May 23, 1988

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