Kate & Allie Season 4, Episode 15: Upstairs, Downstairs

1

The Trouble With Jason

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.

30 min

2

Found Money

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.

30 min

3

The Bully

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.

30 min

4

General Hospital

Kate's surprise birthday party is delayed while she recuperates in hospital, so Allie checks in to keep her company.

30 min

5

Rx for Love

His bedside manner's irresistible, so Kate's in love...

30 min

6

Halloween II

The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.

30 min

7

Jennie and Jason

Jennie's boyfriend is pressing her to go all the way, so it looks like time for the dreaded mother-daughter conversation.

30 min

8

Bringing Up Charles

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.

30 min

9

Emma's Coming Out Party

Kate and Allie recall their most famous fight, seventeen years ago -- during which Kate went into labour.

30 min

10

Stage Mother

Jennie gets a chance to sing on cable tv -- if she can leap the hurdle of Allie's excessive enthusiasm.

30 min

11

The Goodbye Girl

Allie and her boss Eddie are stranded in the studio by a blizzard -- and must keep the show on the air.

30 min

12

Dates of Future Past

While Kate's away on a business trip, an ex-football player makes a play for Allie.

30 min

13

Gift of the Magi

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.

30 min

14

Allie's Graduation

Allie triumphantly graduates from college, but learns that a diploma isn't necessarily a ticket to the job of her choice.

30 min

15

Upstairs, Downstairs

Jennie arranges a date for Emma. Kate and Allie interfere in Jennie and Emma's latest spat.

30 min

16

Emma Goes to College

Emma has to decide between going to college at Columbia or UCLA.

30 min

17

Allie and the Three Wolves

At a singles bar, Allie becomes the target of a bet between three men on the prowl.

30 min

18

Louis in Love

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.

30 min

19

Reruns

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.""

30 min

20

Send Me No Flowers

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.

30 min

21

Dearly Beloved

To dig up enough money for a date, Chip opens a pet cemetery. To finance a date, Chip starts a pet-burial service.

30 min

22

Allie on Strike

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.

30 min

23

Kate Quits

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.

30 min

24

Charles' Dinner

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

30 min

25

Allie's Surprise Party

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.

30 min