Aired: 1984 - 1989 Show Type: Live Action Country of Origin: US
Two recently divorced woman, Kate McArdle and Allie Lowel, find comfort in one another after moving into a Greenwich apartment together with their children.
You're always saying shows are crappy 'eep!'. I can tell you just didn't like (or didn't watch) 80s sitcoms or dramas. Thats okay, but you shouldn't be saying the show's crappy when you only watched 1 episode.
Kate & Allie was unique. Two divorced women raising their children together and keeping it all going smoothly (sort of) while also still juggling boyfriends. That's all there is to it - it doesn't take a lot to understand what the hell is going on past that.
Give it another look and you might understand it now.
I actually liked the show. when i was younger, we all (my family and I) used to have evenings watching television shows together, and Kate and Allie was one of them. I was young, and the show was still appropriate for me to watch, which is unheard of these days with sitcoms and dramas. Looking back in hindsight though, i think Kate and Allie's situation, though they had boyfriends and such, was the beginnings of getting people comfortable with homosexuality, in this sense lesbianism. Which isn't a bad thing, it's just something unheard of in the 80's. Of course, that was the undertone, so i am sure no one but gays and lesbians actually picked that up back then.
on a side note, it is sad that these days the whole family can't sit together and watch a show together, without it being too juvenile for the adults or too adult for the kids. The 80's had shows that most all could watch and get something out of.
Posted: 05/11/2006
80sguru I agree. None of the shows today are like the ones we all watched as a kid and they do not teach any lessons in life like the ones did back in the day. Although this show was great. I remember watching it as a kid. I was obsessed with chip for some strange reason don't really remember why. I remember watching it with my family.
Aired: 1984 - 1989
