Kate & Allie

Kate and Allie, which ran on CBS from 19 March 1984 to 22 May 1989, was the brainchild of Sherry Coben who came up with the idea for the series while attending a high school reunion. There she noticed that a couple of divorcees who seemed unhappy and dissatisfied found comfort in sharing with each other. Coben worked with this germinal notion and successfully pitched the resulting script, originally entitled, "Two Mommies," to Michael Ogiens, then head of New York program development at CBS. Ogiens liked the script because it contained fresh material that dealt with a real issue of the day--single parenthood. Kate and Allie was an instant success, ranking fourth the week it debuted, garnering consistently high ratings thereafter, and earning Jane Curtin two consecutive Emmys and Bill Persky, one. The characters and the issues they dealt with obviously appealed to the program's audience. Saint James' character, Kate, is a woman recently divorced from her unstable and somewha

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Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials 2
Season 1 March 1984 May 1984 6
Season 2 October 1984 May 1985 22
Season 3 September 1985 May 1986 23
Season 4 September 1986 May 1987 25
Season 5 September 1987 May 1988 24
Season 6 December 1988 May 1989 22
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Unassigned Episodes 124
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 124
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Bill Persky 84 03/19/1984 - 05/23/1988
Anne Flett-Giordano 29 10/14/1985 - 05/22/1989
Chuck Ranberg 29 10/14/1985 - 05/22/1989
Linda Day 21 12/11/1988 - 05/22/1989
David Trainer 1 03/23/1987
Dennis DeBrito 1 09/28/1987
Maureen Thorp 1 05/15/1989
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Bob Randall 32 04/23/1984 - 05/23/1988
Sherry Coben 8 03/19/1984 - 05/06/1985
Howard Korder 5 02/02/1987 - 11/16/1987
Peter Gethers 4 03/26/1984 - 02/17/1986
Bernie Orenstein 4 01/09/1989 - 04/24/1989
David Handler 4 03/26/1984 - 02/17/1986
Saul Turteltaub 4 01/09/1989 - 04/24/1989
Dana Persky 3 01/20/1986 - 02/27/1989
Alan Leicht 3 03/04/1985 - 05/06/1985
Jane Richmond 3 12/31/1984 - 11/10/1986
Allan Leicht 2 12/03/1984 - 12/10/1984
Stuart Hampel 2 10/22/1984 - 02/11/1985
Nita Wilson-Klein 2 10/05/1987
Mike Lyons 1 02/20/1989
Helen Barrett 1 05/08/1989
Victoria Rauch Lichterman 1 11/19/1984
Dick Goldberg 1 01/04/1988
Jim Geoghan 1 01/30/1989
Tony Lang 1 02/01/1988
Marco Pennette 1 10/05/1987
Susan Connaughton Curtin 1 03/23/1987
John Albert 1 03/27/1989
Martin Sage 1 12/16/1985
Kimberley Wells 1 02/20/1989
Mindy Glazer 1 12/16/1985
Daryl V. Rowland 1 11/09/1987
Ellen Sandler 1 11/05/1984
Shelley Altman 1 09/29/1986
Bill Richmond 1 12/01/1986
Mike Zettler 1 09/29/1986
Jim Wells 1 02/13/1989
Sybil Adelman 1 12/16/1985
Norman Barasch 1 04/07/1986
Tula Demetra 1 12/02/1985
Steven Kunes 1 12/23/1985
Dennis Danziger 1 11/05/1984
Sherry Coburn 1 11/26/1984
Lorrie Shapiro 1 01/20/1986
Fred Barron 1 04/30/1984
M. Brett Schneider 1 02/06/1989
Laurie Newbound 1 01/23/1989
Cynthia Heimel 1 05/15/1989
Michael Gordon 1 03/06/1989
Trish Vradenberg 1 09/30/1985

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