History Series / KateAndAllie

* TheBeard:
** In an early episode, the title characters played TheBeard... for each other! They pretended to be a lesbian couple to avoid having their rent increased (as two divorced mothers with kids, they were considered to be two separate families).
** In a later episode, Kate was hired to portray the wife of a client to help him get promoted. She ended up falling for his co-worker.

Kate [=McArdle=] (Saint James) has recently divorced her unstable and somewhat flighty part-time actor husband, Max. She has one daughter, 14-year-old Emma (Ari Meyers). Her friend since childhood, Allie Lowell (Curtin), is also a recent divorcée from her successful but unfaithful doctor husband, Charles. She has a 14-year-old daughter, Jennie (Allison Smith), and a seven-year-old son, Chip (Frederick Koehler). Though neither Kate nor Allie have ruled out remarriage, both women view their new situation as a provisional reprieve, a time for them to come to better know and appreciate themselves.

Kate [=McArdle=] (Saint James) has recently divorced her unstable and somewhat flighty part-time actor husband, Max. She has one daughter, 14-year-old Emma. Her friend since childhood, Allie Lowell (Curtin), is also a recent divorcée from her successful, but unfaithful doctor husband, Charles. She has a 14-year-old daughter, Jennie, and a seven-year-old son, Chip. Neither Kate nor Allie have ruled out remarriage but view their new situation as a provisional reprieve, a time for both women to come to know and appreciate themselves.

Kate [=McArdle=] (Saint James) has recently divorced her unstable and somewhat flighty part-time actor husband, Max. She has one daughter, 14-year-old Emma. Her friend since childhood, Allie Lowell (Curtin), is also recently divorced from her successful, but unfaithful doctor husband, Charles. She has a 14-year-old daughter Jennie, and a seven-year-old son, Chip. Neither Kate nor Allie have ruled out remarriage but view their new situation as a provisional reprieve, a time for both women to come to know and appreciate themselves.

''Kate & Allie'' is an American {{sitcom}} that aired on Creator/{{CBS}} from 1984–89, created by Sherry Coben and starring Creator/SusanSaintJames and Creator/JaneCurtin as two childhood friends, both now divorced with children, who decide to live together in the same house in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity's Greenwich Village. The show, whose first 100 episodes were all directed and produced by ''Series/ThatGirl'' creator and ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' writer Bill Persky, won two [[UsefulNotes/EmmyAward Emmy Awards]] for Curtin and three nominations for St. James.

''Kate & Allie'' is an American {{sitcom}} that aired on Creator/{{CBS}} from 1984–89, created by Sherry Coben and starring Susan Saint James and Creator/JaneCurtin as two childhood friends, both now divorced with children, who decide to live together in the same house in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity's Greenwich Village. The show, whose first 100 episodes were all directed and produced by ''Series/ThatGirl'' creator and ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' writer Bill Persky, won two [[UsefulNotes/EmmyAward Emmy Awards]] for Curtin and three nominations for St. James.

''Kate & Allie'' is an American {{sitcom}} that aired on Creator/{{CBS}} from 1984–89, created by Sherry Coben and starring Susan Saint James and Creator/JaneCurtin as two childhood friends, both now divorced with children, who decide to live together in the same house in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity's Greenwich Village.

** One episode of Kate And Allie had Allie giving The Talk to her son. It ended with him in a state of acute embarrassment, wailing "My ''mom'' said 'condom'!"

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: A pair of season 4 episodes has Allie going to work for a local TV station with a female manager, played by ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' alum Andrea Martin. This was subsequently developed into a sitcom called ''Roxie'', albeit with Marin's character given a different name.

''Kate & Allie'' is an American {{sitcom}} television series that aired on Creator/{{CBS}} from March 1984 to May 1989, starring Susan Saint James and Creator/JaneCurtin as two divorced women, both with children, who decide to live together in the same house. The series was created by Sherry Coben.

Kate (Saint James) is a woman recently divorced from her unstable and somewhat flighty part-time actor husband, Max. She has one daughter, 14-year-old Emma. Allie (Curtin) is also recently divorced from her successful, but unfaithful doctor husband, Charles. She has a 14-year-old daughter Jennie, and a seven-year-old son, Chip. Neither Kate nor Allie have ruled out remarriage but view their new situation as a provisional reprieve, a time for both women to come to know and appreciate themselves.

* TitleOnlyOpening: Sort of. Each episode starts with a wide shot of the city with the show's title being shown followed by the names of the two principal actresses. It then cuts to the title characters in the city talking about various things that may or may not have to do with the episode. All the while, the show's InstrumentalThemeTune can be heard in the background.[[note]]Although it usually fades out temporarily when it focuses on the title characters.[[/note]]

* PillowPegnancy: Done to hide Susan St. James' pregnancy by stuffing Jane Curtin to match in one episode. (They justified it by making it a flashback episode to when the title characters were pregnant with their daughters.)

''Kate & Allie'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on Creator/{{CBS}}'' from March 1984 to May 1989, starring Susan Saint James and Creator/JaneCurtin as two divorced women, both with children, who decide to live together in the same house. The series was created by Sherry Coben.

''Kate & Allie'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on Creator/{{CBS}}'' from March 1984 to May 1989, starring Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin as two divorced women, both with children, who decide to live together in the same house. The series was created by Sherry Coben.