Seasons & episodes

Allie begins dating Steven, a cute graduate student, but resists getting serious. Her doubts about age-differences are confirmed when she accidentally meets Steven's mom at his apartment and finds she has more in common with her that with her son.

Kate and Allie's crush on an old college professor is rekindled when each imagines she is the inspiration for his recently published romantic novel.

S2 · E19Dead Cat 1985-03-11 · 30 min＋

Kate brings a stray kitten home.

Jenny falls into bad company but finds herself all alone at the police station.

Ted proposes to Kate.

After Allie's ex Charles remarries and Kate breaks up with Ted, they try to cheer themselves up with a lobster dinner.

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

Kate "inherits" a lovely mink coat from a lover's quarrel and finds that it changes her lifestyle.

Allie's advertisement for part-time work ends up in the Personals Column by mistake, and the return mail brings such bizarre responses that she is appalled.

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

Allie receives devastating news about her father.

Max sends Emma a mystery for her birthday, and Allie is soon in on it, catching up the family in an exotic world of menacing art dealers and homicidal maniacs.

Allie's new professor from Ohio begins visiting on ""academic business"" but their relationship soon heats up, with surprising results.

Kate and Allie invite a crowd for Thanksgiving dinner/disaster.

Kate is worried that Max's new girlfriend, Darla, is turning Emma's head in a glamorous world of celebrities and premieres.

Kate's old friend Betsy visits, and far outstays her welcome.

Invited to the Russian Ballet, Kate searches frantically for the perfect dress. She finds it, but it costs more than Kate and Allie's combined monthly salaries.

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

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

Chip feels he's being replaced when he finds out Charles' girlfriend Claire is pregnant.

A protest rally gives Allie a taste of what she missed during the '60s, while for Kate it's a march down memory lane.

Jenny gets more than she bargained for in her new job: a bonus of sexual harassment.

Allie jumps to conclusions when she discovers Kate with a former boyfriend who's now married.

Allie is so afraid of appearing on a talk show about modern families that she follows Kate's advice and goes to a hypnotist.