Kate & Allie: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
Fathers and Sons
Sep 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
The Dilemma with Emma
Sep 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
Kate and the Cab Driver
Sep 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.
Mother's Day
Oct 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
Return of Bob Barsky
Oct 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.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Oct 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 Manh
Ted's Fix-Up
Oct 26, 1987
Kate and Angela fix each other up with each other's ex's, with surprising results.
Jennie's New Deal
Nov 9, 1987
After Emma moves into the college dorm, Jennie feels cooped up living at home under her mother's rules.
Hired Wife
Nov 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
The Marriage Counselor
Nov 23, 1987
Bob suggests marriage counseling for the constantly bickering Kate and Allie.
The Triangle Has Four Sides
Dec 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
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Dec 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 ever
The Band Singer
Jan 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 dinner
Almost Married (a.k.a.) And Then There Were None
Jan 18, 1988
Ted invites everybody to his friends' cabin in the Adirondacks, but there's an escaped convict on the loose.
The Namath of the Game
Feb 3, 1988
Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant
Inside Park Avenue
Feb 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.
Working Women
Feb 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 f
I Don't, I Don't
Mar 14, 1988
Bob is in a panic because he feels he's not ready for marriage---which no one has mentioned.
Bob Smells the Roses
Mar 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.
Allie Makes Up Her Mind
Mar 28, 1988
Conclusion. Allie can't decide whether to accept Bob's marriage proposal.
The Clip Show
May 23, 1988
The series' 100th episode is celebrated with clips from past shows.