TV season
1986-09-22
Episode 1
1986-09-22 • 30 min
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 he showers her with gifts of food deliveries. Jennie advises Jason to back off a little, but he shows up again with flowers -- for Jennie.
Episode 2
1986-09-29 • 30 min
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 will enjoy.
Episode 3
1986-10-06 • 30 min
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.
Episode 4
1986-10-13 • 30 min
Kate's surprise birthday party is delayed while she recuperates in hospital, so Allie checks in to keep her company.
Episode 5
1986-10-20 • 30 min
His bedside manner's irresistible, so Kate's in love...
Episode 6
1986-10-27 • 30 min
The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.
Episode 7
1986-11-03 • 30 min
Jennie's boyfriend is pressing her to go all the way, so it looks like time for the dreaded mother-daughter conversation.
Episode 8
1986-11-10 • 30 min
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 of him either.
Episode 9
1986-11-24 • 30 min
Kate and Allie recall their most famous fight, seventeen years ago -- during which Kate went into labour.
Episode 10
1986-12-01 • 30 min
Jennie gets a chance to sing on cable tv -- if she can leap the hurdle of Allie's excessive enthusiasm.
Episode 11
1986-12-08 • 30 min
Allie and her boss Eddie are stranded in the studio by a blizzard -- and must keep the show on the air.
Episode 12
1986-12-15 • 30 min
While Kate's away on a business trip, an ex-football player makes a play for Allie.
Episode 13
1987-01-05 • 30 min
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 Allie a camera lens.
Episode 14
1987-01-26 • 30 min
Allie triumphantly graduates from college, but learns that a diploma isn't necessarily a ticket to the job of her choice.
Episode 15
1987-02-02 • 30 min
Jennie arranges a date for Emma. Kate and Allie interfere in Jennie and Emma's latest spat.
Episode 16
1987-02-09 • 30 min
Emma has to decide between going to college at Columbia or UCLA.
Episode 17
1987-02-16 • 30 min
At a singles bar, Allie becomes the target of a bet between three men on the prowl.
Episode 18
1987-02-23 • 30 min
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 really likes him and he assumes she means herself.
Episode 19
1987-03-02 • 30 min
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 Personal"". Struggling to keep from opening it, Allie falls asleep in front of late night TV and dreams herself and Kate into old episodes of ""I Love Lucy"" and ""Mary Tyler Moore.""
Episode 20
1987-03-16 • 30 min
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 to speculate on who exactly is apologizing to whom.
Episode 21
1987-03-23 • 30 min
To dig up enough money for a date, Chip opens a pet cemetery. To finance a date, Chip starts a pet-burial service.
Episode 22
1987-04-06 • 30 min
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.
Episode 23
1987-05-04 • 30 min
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 it burns down. When Kate encourages her to find a job she wants, such as the museum job she has always wanted, Allie finds a position in the gift shop of the ""Museum of Contemporary Art"" -- and her happiness causes Kate to realize how much she hates her job. Kate's talk turns into a rant about needing the courage to quit her job & then Allie arrives home to say the Museum's sprinklers causes a flood and she is unemployed too.
Episode 24
1987-05-11 • 30 min
Kate and Allie cater Charles' and Claire's anniversary dinner.
Episode 25
1987-05-18 • 30 min
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.
