The BEST episodes written by Bob Randall

#1 - If She Goes, I Go

Kate & Allie - Season 2 - Episode 14

Despite Kate's doubts about working with her friend, Allie gets a job at Sloan Travel and quickly fouls up so completely that she is fired—whereupon Kate threatens to quit.

#2 - The Family Business

Kate & Allie - Season 1 - Episode 4

When Kate gets a promotion at the travel agency, Allie starts to feel she may have missed out on life.

#3 - Dear Diary

Kate & Allie - Season 1 - Episode 5

Kate's curiosity gets the best of her when she finds a diary which belongs to Allie.

#4 - Goodbye, Plumber

Kate & Allie - Season 2 - Episode 21

Ted proposes to Kate.

#5 - Fathers and Sons

Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 1

An adult Chip brings his son Scotty to the old apartment just before the building is demolished, and reminisces a bout the day he tried to conceal a report card showing that he had failed science -- convincing him that he would always be a failure.

#6 - A Weekend to Remember

Kate & Allie - Season 1 - Episode 6

Allie finds herself alone when Kate goes on a ski trip with her ex-husband and the kids are off doing their own thing.

#7 - Kate and the Plumber

Kate & Allie - Season 2 - Episode 6

Kate's relationship with plumber Ted runs hot and cold -- the only thing they can agree on is a mutual attraction.

#8 - Landlady

Kate & Allie - Season 2 - Episode 2

Kate and Allie face a rent increase when their landlady realizes that there are two families occupying a one-family dwelling.

#9 - The Reunion

Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 1

Invited to their 20th high school reunion, Kate & Allie both go determined to settle old scores.

#10 - The Clip Show

Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 24

The series' 100th episode is celebrated with clips from past shows.

#11 - Back to School

Kate & Allie - Season 2 - Episode 12

#12 - Evening in Paris

Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 4

On a free trip to Paris, Allie comes down with the flu while Jennie plans a rendezvous with a Frenchman.

#13 - Picture of an Affair

Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 5

Allie receives devastating news about her father.

#14 - Dark Victory

Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 12

Trapped in her dentist's office during a blackout, Kate makes a date with a stranger—and then discovers he's black.

#15 - Grand Central Station

Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 13

A singing telegram provided more information than intended when Kate and Allie referee another family's dispute.

#16 - Ted's Back

Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 20

Faced with a lonely Saturday night, Kate calls former boyfriend Ted on the pretense of returning a sweater.

#17 - Late Bloomer

Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 23

Kate takes a cooking class given by a woman who also teaches acting, and studies psychology when not arguing with her mother about moving home.

#18 - Jennie and Jason

Kate & Allie - Season 4 - Episode 7

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

#19 - Allie and the Three Wolves

Kate & Allie - Season 4 - Episode 17

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

#20 - Reruns

Kate & Allie - Season 4 - Episode 19

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.""

#21 - Send Me No Flowers

Kate & Allie - Season 4 - Episode 20

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.

#22 - Charles' Dinner

Kate & Allie - Season 4 - Episode 24

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

#23 - Kate and the Cab Driver

Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 3

Kate falls for a charmingly immature cab driver who quit his job as an advertising executive to become an artist -- and who wants Kate to go on impulse with him to Brazil.

#24 - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 6

While Kate and Dennis take old clothes to Goodwill, Allie rushes across town to pay Jennie's school fees but l eaves her purse in the cab and is left stranded and penniless in Manhattan.

#25 - The Marriage Counselor

Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 10

Bob suggests marriage counseling for the constantly bickering Kate and Allie.

#26 - The Triangle Has Four Sides

Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 11

Kate tries to date Dennis and Peter at the same time, but they end up finding out about each other. When Kate realizes they don't care she is dating other men, she dumps them both and starts dating Ted, again.

#27 - The Band Singer

Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 14

Jenny is enamored of classmate Howard, auditions for his band, and becomes their lead singer. While the band rehearses in their basement, Kate and Allie give combined French dinners/French lessons and worry that Jenny is not willing to be herself with Howard -- to the point where she won't admit she can't rollerskate when he wants her to sing dressed as a skating '50s carhop.

#28 - Almost Married (a.k.a.) And Then There Were None

Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 15

Ted invites everybody to his friends' cabin in the Adirondacks, but there's an escaped convict on the loose.

#29 - Inside Park Avenue

Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 19

Kate and Allie get a taste of how the other half lives---and loves---when they cater a society couple's 25th-anniversary party.

#30 - Working Women

Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 20

Arrogant businessman Jack Brompton hires the women to cater ""an authentic early American dinner for 24"" at his place in the Hamptons, then repeatedly changes the theme and menu from American Civil War to Victorian England. Jenny's video project on working women for her women's study course prompts fantasy sequences with Kate and Allie as immigrant women in a sweatshop and as WWII factory workers. Inspired to stand up for themselves, they confront Brompton about his shoddy treatment of them -- and discover that he is a henpecked husband only obeying his shrewish wife's whims.

#31 - I Don't, I Don't

Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 21

Bob is in a panic because he feels he's not ready for marriage---which no one has mentioned.

#32 - Allie Makes Up Her Mind

Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 23

Conclusion. Allie can't decide whether to accept Bob's marriage proposal.