Show Notes and Video Playlist: Episode 13-5: Kate and Allie

*Kate and Allie aired 6 seasons, 1984-1989, Monday nights on CBS, for a total of 122 episodes. It was a top-20 show for its first 4 and a top-10 series in its short first season.

*If you want to check out our McMillan and Wife episode, go here. You will find our original-cast Saturday Night Live episode here.

*The Weekly Reader publication Laurie spotted is 1986's Cosby, Punky, Kate and Allie. Much to my amazement, it's a hardcover.

*"Rear Window" is in the series' second season.

*The episode with "lesbian panic/misunderstandings" we mention is Season 2's "Landlady."

*"Along Comes a Friend" by John Loeffler is the series' theme song.

*"Kate's Friend" premiered December 16, 1985 as the tenth episode of the series' third season.

*Season 3's "Too Late the Rebel" is the episode with Fran Brill and Ben Stiller.

*Walt Simonson's run on the Thor comic book lasted from 1983-1987, with him writing and drawing for most of it.

*The would-be pilot Mike mentions with Andrea Martin is :Stage Mother" in Season 4. Martin and the setting also appear in the next episode, "The Goodbye Girl." The Lindsay Wagner episode is "Late Bloomer," the finale of the third season.

*Kate becomes Joe Namath's assistant in Season 5's "The Namath of the Game."

*Season 5's "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" is when Allie is mistaken for a homeless person.

*"Reruns" in Season 4 has the tribute to I Love Lucy.

*"Gift of the Magi" is also in Season 4.

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