Seasons & episodes

Kate and Allie are both attracted to the same lawyer.

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

Chip befriends a mentally handicapped man who's homeless and invites him to sleep in the basement.

Emma questions the importance of being elected class president when she learns that her opponent has leukemia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.""