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Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • February 5, 1990
    • CBC

    Kitty launches her own fashion business despite her grandfather's interference.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • February 12, 1990
    • CBC

    A top fashion writer puts Kitty on a new TV show. Kitty learns that currying the friendship of a fashion columnist can be life-threatening.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • February 19, 1990
    • CBC

    Kitty falls for a fashion photographer who turns out to be gay.

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    • February 26, 1990
    • CBC

    Kitty's mother interferes with her possible success as an international fashion designer.

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    • March 5, 1990
    • CBC

  • S01E06 Episode 6

    • March 12, 1990
    • CBC

    Kitty worries how her mother will react when she learns of an impending visit by her father, who left Virginia years ago for another woman.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Member of the Wedding

    • March 11, 1991
    • CBC

    Kitty is asked to be a bridesmaid at the wedding of her best girlhood friend. When the groom turns out to be abusive, Kitty helps the bride-to-be see his flaws and think twice before going to the altar.

  • S02E02 The Most Important Thing

    • March 18, 1991
    • CBC

    Kitty gets involved in an AIDS benefit fashion show and meets a gay man who has the disease. He ends up in the hospital.

  • S02E03 The Birthday Party

    • March 25, 1991
    • CBC

    Upset that she's turning 49, Virginia waxes nostalgic about Kitty's 13th birthday.

  • S02E04 The Little Me

    • April 1, 1991
    • CBC

    Kitty's loses her self confidence after her designs are rejected by a buyer.

  • S02E05 The Trouble With Pam

    • April 8, 1991
    • CBC

    Kitty is attracted to Tim, who is dating Pam.

  • S02E06 Confessions of a Third Wheel

    • April 15, 1991
    • CBC

    Kitty confides in Bernice.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Carry Your Heart

    • November 4, 1991
    • CBC

    Kitty struggles to accept the sudden news that her beloved grandfather has died. Adding to her struggle is the fact that her mother kept his serious illness a secret.

  • S03E02 My Favourite Martin

    • November 11, 1991
    • CBC

    Kitty hopes that taking on a new partner will resolve some of her financial problems, and then struggles with her decision when he insists that she lay someone off.

  • S03E03 Different for Girls

    • November 18, 1991
    • CBC

    Kitty has to face up to life in the urban jungle when Angela's apartment is broken into. Things go from bad to worse when Kitty and Angela discover a rapist is on the loose in their neighborhood and the cops have been keeping it from the public.

  • S03E04 Our Boyfriends, Ourselves

    • November 25, 1991
    • CBC

    Kitty and Tim turn to each other on the rebound.

  • S03E05 Getting to Know You

    • December 9, 1991
    • CBC

    Kitty's sweet dreams turn into nightmares when she wakes up next to Tim and shortly afterward her mother and Angela arrive on the scene.

  • S03E06 The Picture of My Life

    • January 6, 1992
    • CBC

    Kitty evaluates her relationship with Tim after she meets an artist at Martin's party.

  • S03E07 The Art Is a Lonely Hunter

    • January 13, 1992
    • CBC

    Kitty confesses to Tim that she kissed another man.

  • S03E08 Always a Woman

    • January 20, 1992
    • CBC

    Kitty is terrified by the discovery of a lump in her breast, and doesn't know who to turn to for comfort.

  • S03E09 The Road to Heaven

    • January 27, 1992
    • CBC

    Kitty visits a wholeness guru.

  • S03E10 Kitty Chills Out

    • February 3, 1992
    • CBC

    Kitty and Angela spend a week together.

  • S03E11 Heart and Sold

    • February 24, 1992
    • CBC

    The focus is on Kitty after one of her dresses is worn to a wedding that gets front-page coverage, but she has trouble dealing with her instant "celebrity" status.

  • S03E12 Death of a Salesman

    • March 2, 1992
    • CBC

    Martin develops a cologne and names it for Kitty; Tim quits teaching.

  • S03E13 Just a Couple of Working Girls

    • March 9, 1992
    • CBC

    Martin's cologne smells awful; Kitty learns that she is pregnant.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Things Change

    • November 5, 1992
    • CBC

    Kitty sells Classy Fashions and opens a fashionable Queen Street boutique called Material World, with an apartment above that she and Angela share. Meanwhile, Virginia starts a dating service.

  • S04E02 Leap of Faith

    • November 12, 1992
    • CBC

    Kitty's new teenage employee, Lucy, alarms the customers with her candid honesty.

  • S04E03 It's a Chemistry Thing

    • November 19, 1992
    • CBC

    Kitty becomes jealous when her mother arranges a date for Angela with a medical doctor; Martin spies on his wife.

  • S04E04 A Little Something in Plaid

    • November 26, 1992
    • CBC

    Kitty romances a bagpiper; Virginia romances Martin's father.

  • S04E05 Clash of the Tartans

    • December 3, 1992
    • CBC

    Kitty and Angela both fall for the same street musician; Lucy tells Martin how to make male friends.

  • S04E06 Paying for It

    • December 10, 1992
    • CBC

    Martin dreams up a scheme to help improve business, but Kitty has a plan of her own.

  • S04E07 A Kiss Is a Kiss

    • December 17, 1992
    • CBC

    Kitty's business meeting becomes a date; Martin attends a class being taught by Angela.

  • S04E08 Up to Her Neck

    • December 31, 1992
    • CBC

    Kitty asks Angela for help with a creativity block; Angela has a job setback.

  • S04E09 Double Exposure

    • February 1, 1993
    • CBC

    Lucy is arrested for indecent exposure and Kitty comes to her aid; Martin suspects there is a peeping tom outside his house.

  • S04E10 Straight to the Bone

    • February 8, 1993
    • CBC

    Kitty hires Angela, Lucy and Virginia for a fashion show instead of professional models, in order to show 'real' women in her clothes.

  • S04E11 Lost and Found

    • February 15, 1993
    • CBC

    Kitty is shocked to learn she has a second mother; Martin agrees to take care of his girlfriend's pet ferret.

  • S04E12 Lingering Doubts

    • February 22, 1993
    • CBC

    Kitty and Angela track down Kitty's first boyfriend; Martin tries to prevent his father's marriage proposal to Virginia.

  • S04E13 The Dinner Party

    • March 1, 1993
    • CBC

    Surprise guests, distressed friends and a frozen roast spoil Kitty's careful plans for a perfect dinner party.