Sister Kate

30min

Comedy

Sister Kate is an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1989–1990 television season.

Episodes

Cast

Pilot

1. Pilot

30min

16th Sep 1989

Sister Kate is a No-Nonsense Nun who is unwillingly sent to take care of a group of Orphans who can't seem to get adopted. Sister Kate, despite having a severe dislike for children, soon realizes that they are not all bad, and is willing to let bygones be bygones.

Freddy's Bad Habit

2. Freddy's Bad Habit

30min

21st Sep 1989

Kate goes to extraordinary measures to break Freddy's smoking habit. Neville gets upset when someone wants to adopt Viloet.

Eugene's Secret

3. Eugene's Secret

30min

24th Sep 1989

All the kids grumble when Kate pairs them off in bedrooms, but none as much as Eugene, who has a secret reason for not wanting a roommate.

Freddy's Date

4. Freddy's Date

30min

1st Oct 1989

Tomboy Freddy plays a couquette to attract a guy in auto shop, and Neville plays havoc with the peace in his search for an instrument he can play.

Eugene's Model

5. Eugene's Model

30min

15th Oct 1989

April is irked because Eugene picked Freddy to sketch in the buff, and Violet is irked because Neville is spending time with Kate.

Neville's Hired Hand

6. Neville's Hired Hand

30min

22nd Oct 1989

Neville is so taken with a vagrant who stops for food that Kate hires him as a cook and handyman , on the condition that he continues to stay off booze that he swears he's sworn off.

Hilary's Date

7. Hilary's Date

30min

29th Oct 1989

Hilary does a masterly job of keeping her wheelchair a secret from a boy she likes; and Neville gives Kate the silent treatment after she upbraids him for his language.

Violet's Friend

8. Violet's Friend

30min

5th Nov 1989

Violet's Imaginary friend comes to visit and has the gang in an uproar. Violet get upset when the others pretend to see her, and she runs away. Sister Kate gets a phone call from a local hospital telling her Violet is there. Violet went to the hospital because that is where she last saw her friend alive. The friends invisible counterpart is how Violet coped with the death.

Kate's Baby

9. Kate's Baby

30min

19th Nov 1989

Kate gets to become a mother - to an infant child abandoned at the orphanage. Meanwhile the kids try to raise 200 dollars to replace a vase they smashed in Kate's office.

Kate's Furnace

10. Kate's Furnace

30min

26th Nov 1989

The weather's cold, but feuding Freddy and Todd warm up to each other on a trip to Syracuse to to get a part for the furnace.

The Nun

11. The Nun

30min

3rd Dec 1989

Sister Agnes, a temporary resident who has spent 25 years of serenity and silence in a convent, finds old habits hard to keep at Redemption House.

April in Paris

12. April in Paris

30min

10th Dec 1989

An upcoming French test becomes April's latest anxiety; and Todd uses an unwitting Hillary in a ploy to attract a salesgirl at the mall.

Father Christmas

13. Father Christmas

30min

17th Dec 1989

Freddy's father Nick pays a visit on furlough from prison. He's no St. Nick, but he makes Christmas memorable.

Eugene's Feat

14. Eugene's Feat

30min

7th Jan 1990

Eugene decides he needs to prove he's a man.

Kandid Kate

15. Kandid Kate

30min

21st Jan 1990

The Kids star in their own candid videos to sell themselves to perspective parents.

Sweet Sixteen

16. Sweet Sixteen

30min

16th Jul 1990

A sweet 16 party for April isn't planned as a surprise, but that's how it works out.

Bingo

17. Bingo

30min

23rd Jul 1990

A lot of bingo addicts are attracted by games at the house- an Kate turns out to B-1.

Todd's Cheap Date

18. Todd's Cheap Date

30min

30th Jul 1990

Todd's date turns into a nightmare.

Underwood Underfoot

19. Underwood Underfoot

30min

1st Sep 1990

Kate can't understand why Underwood is always underfoot.

First air date

16th Sep 1989

Last air date

1st Sep 1990

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks