Forgotten TV Shows: Kate & Allie
Last night I was flipping through the channels (something I still like to do occasionally even during the glorious reign of Tivo) and on the WE channel (yes, I know) they were playing some old episodes of Kate & Allie and I was thrown back into the past. Some of those 80s sitcoms have been so ubiquitous in syndication that one is never in danger of forgetting their existence (The Cosby Show, Cheers, Golden Girls, etc.) but something like Kate & Allie, which was a fairly reasonable hit back in the day - it survived for six seasons! - can so easily just disappear. It's not like it was a great show, but I loved it at the time. It seemed so glamorous, living in that fantastic basement apartment in New York! And Emma was so pretty and stylish . . . I wanted to grow up to be that cool.
The fact that they were only living together because they were both single moms struggling to make ends meet didn't really make much of an impact on my pre-teen brain. So I watched a few minutes of the pilot, reminisced about what my life was like in 1984, Jane Curtain's mugging annoyed the hell out of me, and I turned back to the present and watched last night's Grey's Anatomy.
Anyone else remember Kate & Allie fondly?
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I loved Kate and Allie, and especially loved Emma! When I used to watch it always made me happy the the girl who was clearly cuter and cooler was the brunette and not the blonde.
Okay, I just found out a few more things:
1.) The actress who played Emma was named "Ari" but apparently that is short for "Ariadne." I love that name, but everyone would think I was crazy if I named a child "Ariadne." Regardless, this just made me like Emma even more.
2.) Ariadne managed to attend college (Yale) while filming Kate and Allie! She graduated a year after she stopped on the show.
3.) The actress who played Jennie, Jane Curtain's daughter, played Mallory on the West Wing.
IMDB sure gives a lot of information!
I loved the show too. But did they live in a basement? I remember it as more of a brownstone type thing.
I think you are right about the brownstone. I remember their front door led to a common-type area, and there were stairs leading upstairs to bedrooms.
I guess I'm weird, but I never liked Emma. I always liked the other daughter -- the blond one, who was always singing.
My favorite episode was when Allie went out in her housecleaning rags and forgot her key and, I guess, lost or forgot her purse and was treated as a homeless woman and had to beg for money and all.
And I hated when Allie got married to Bob Barksy and they moved to that posh apartment. The brownstone basement was the best!
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