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Charles' Dinner

May 11, 1987

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Kate & Allie - S4 - E24

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Kate and Allie cater Charles' and Claire's anniversary dinner.

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Kate & Allie: Season 4 - 25 Episode s

4x1 - The Trouble With Jason
September 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 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.
4x2 - Found Money
September 29, 1986
Kate and Allie find a wallet containing ,000 in cash, and the grateful owner gives them a reward -- so Kate challenges Allie to spend her half on something frivolous she will enjoy.
4x3 - The Bully
October 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.
4x4 - General Hospital
October 13, 1986
Kate's surprise birthday party is delayed while she recuperates in hospital, so Allie checks in to keep her company.
4x5 - Rx for Love
October 20, 1986
His bedside manner's irresistible, so Kate's in love...
4x6 - Halloween II
October 27, 1986
The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.
4x7 - Jennie and Jason
November 3, 1986
Jennie's boyfriend is pressing her to go all the way, so it looks like time for the dreaded mother-daughter conversation.
4x8 - Bringing Up Charles
November 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 of him either.
4x9 - Emma's Coming Out Party
November 24, 1986
Kate and Allie recall their most famous fight, seventeen years ago -- during which Kate went into labour.
4x10 - Stage Mother
December 1, 1986
Jennie gets a chance to sing on cable tv -- if she can leap the hurdle of Allie's excessive enthusiasm.
4x11 - The Goodbye Girl
December 8, 1986
Allie and her boss Eddie are stranded in the studio by a blizzard -- and must keep the show on the air.
4x12 - Dates of Future Past
December 15, 1986
While Kate's away on a business trip, an ex-football player makes a play for Allie.
4x13 - Gift of the Magi
January 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 Allie a camera lens.
4x14 - Allie's Graduation
January 26, 1987
Allie triumphantly graduates from college, but learns that a diploma isn't necessarily a ticket to the job of her choice.
4x15 - Upstairs, Downstairs
February 2, 1987
Jennie arranges a date for Emma. Kate and Allie interfere in Jennie and Emma's latest spat.
4x16 - Emma Goes to College
February 9, 1987
Emma has to decide between going to college at Columbia or UCLA.
4x17 - Allie and the Three Wolves
February 16, 1987
At a singles bar, Allie becomes the target of a bet between three men on the prowl.
4x18 - Louis in Love
February 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 really likes him and he assumes she means herself.
4x19 - Reruns
March 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 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.""
4x20 - Send Me No Flowers
March 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 to speculate on who exactly is apologizing to whom.
4x21 - Dearly Beloved
March 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.
4x22 - Allie on Strike
April 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.
4x23 - 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 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.
4x24 - Charles' Dinner
May 11, 1987
Kate and Allie cater Charles' and Claire's anniversary dinner.
4x25 - 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.

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