Kate & Allie: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Kate & Allie Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
The Trouble With Jason
Sep 22, 1986
Brash new transfer student Jason Crawford takes a shine to Emma and won't accept her lack of interest in him, muc h to the amusement of the rest of the family -- particularly when
Found Money
Sep 29, 1986
Kate and Allie find a wallet containing $5,000 in cash, and the grateful owner gives them a $500 reward -- so Kate challenges Allie to spend her half on something frivolous she wil
The Bully
Oct 6, 1986
Chip's scrapes are not all due to baseball: he's being bullied at school, but is embarrassed to admit that his tormentor is an apparently sweet little girl.
General Hospital
Oct 13, 1986
Kate's surprise birthday party is delayed while she recuperates in hospital, so Allie checks in to keep her company.
Halloween II
Oct 27, 1986
The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.
Jennie and Jason
Nov 3, 1986
Jennie's boyfriend is pressing her to go all the way, so it looks like time for the dreaded mother-daughter conversation.
Bringing Up Charles
Nov 10, 1986
Allie gives Charles a lecture on responsibility when Chip and Jenny feel he has abandoned them for his new family, but Allie discovers that Clare and baby Stuart aren't seeing much
Emma's Coming Out Party
Nov 24, 1986
Kate and Allie recall their most famous fight, seventeen years ago -- during which Kate went into labour.
Stage Mother
Dec 1, 1986
Jennie gets a chance to sing on cable tv -- if she can leap the hurdle of Allie's excessive enthusiasm.
The Goodbye Girl
Dec 8, 1986
Allie and her boss Eddie are stranded in the studio by a blizzard -- and must keep the show on the air.
Dates of Future Past
Dec 15, 1986
While Kate's away on a business trip, an ex-football player makes a play for Allie.
Gift of the Magi
Jan 5, 1987
Kate and Allie buy each other third-anniversary gifts, but with an O. Henry twist: Allie pawns her camera to buy a shade for Kate's antique lamp, while Kate sells the lamp to buy A
Allie's Graduation
Jan 26, 1987
Allie triumphantly graduates from college, but learns that a diploma isn't necessarily a ticket to the job of her choice.
Upstairs, Downstairs
Feb 2, 1987
Jennie arranges a date for Emma. Kate and Allie interfere in Jennie and Emma's latest spat.
Emma Goes to College
Feb 9, 1987
Emma has to decide between going to college at Columbia or UCLA.
Allie and the Three Wolves
Feb 16, 1987
At a singles bar, Allie becomes the target of a bet between three men on the prowl.
Louis in Love
Feb 23, 1987
Kate tries to explain love to Louis. The family meet Louis' mentally challenged friend Catherine, who clearly has a crush on him, so Kate tries to persuade Louis that a woman real
Reruns
Mar 2, 1987
Allie dreams that she and Kate are characters in ""I Love Lucy."" Mail forwarded to Allie from Connecticut contains a perfumed envelope addressed to Charles, marked ""Private and
Send Me No Flowers
Mar 16, 1987
The arrival of a bouquet with a card saying simply ""I'm sorry"" prompts everyone to recount how badly they were treated that day -- by clerks, bank personnel, schoolmates -- and t
Dearly Beloved
Mar 23, 1987
To dig up enough money for a date, Chip opens a pet cemetery. To finance a date, Chip starts a pet-burial service.
Allie on Strike
Apr 6, 1987
Fed up with constant demands from the kids and Kate, feeling overworked and unappreciated, Allie goes ""on strike"" -- then gets worried when the others start to cope without her.
Kate Quits
May 4, 1987
Emma asks Kate to talk about her work as a travel agent for her school's ""Women's Career Day,"" causing Allie to realize how much she hates her job at the movie theatre -- until i
Charles' Dinner
May 11, 1987
Kate and Allie cater Charles' and Claire's anniversary dinner.
Allie's Surprise Party
May 18, 1987
Kate and Allie deal with a demanding socialite's children's party, while Allie mopes over turning 39 without a surprise party of her own.