when you think/you're all by yourself/you're not." Under pressure from higher-ups at CBS to quash the suggestion that Kate and Allie were lesbians, the producers were instructed to show Kate and Allie entering separate bedrooms to sleep at the end of each episode. That pressure may have been the impetus for an episode showing Kate and Allie pretending to be lesbians when they were faced with a large increase in rent. Saint James was pregnant during the taping of the fourth season. Her pregnancy was hidden by taping her behind a desk, under a sheet in a hospital bed, or in a bubble bath. The exception was a 1960s flashback which showed both Kate and Allie pregnant. An episode broadcast in 1987, produced in cooperation with the Coalition for the Homeless, was taped almost entirely outdoors, on the streets of Manhattan. The episode was prompted by the likely absence of Saint James, who had been hospitalized due to kidney stones, and featured Allie struggling to find a way home after accidentally leaving her keys and money in a taxi. The show's final season had been picked up with a number of other returning CBS shows for midseason premieres. The lack of inclusion on CBS' 1989–90 fall schedule announced on May 19, 1989, officially ended the series' run. Ratings Following are the Nielsen ratings for the show: 1983–1984: #8 1984–1985: #17 1985–1986: #14 1986–1987: #19 1987–1988: #38 1988–1989: #48 According to an essay by Christine R. Catron from the Museum of Broadcast Communications's Encyclopedia of Television, the decline in ratings for the show's last season is attributable to the fact that the show's premise had been fulfilled at the end of the previous season, when Allie accepted Bob Barsky's marriage proposal. Syndication The American syndication rights are held by NBCUniversal Television Distribution; the show aired on RTN. Kate & Allie previously aired on WE tv, from 2007 to 2008. FremantleMedia owns the international rights, as they own Thames Television and have access to the Reeves Entertainment product. Reboot In January 2021, it was announced that NBC had given a put pilot commitment to a reboot of the series. It will be produced by Fierce Baby Production, Propagate, and Universal Television with Erica Oyama writing and co-executive producing with Nahnatchka Khan, Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, Rodney Ferrell, Gregory Lipstone, Peter Principato, Jen Carreras, and Brian Dobbins. Home media United States Universal