Show Guide: Double Trouble

The adventures of a pair of teenage twins were the focus of this light situation comedy.

When the show premiered in the spring of 1984, it was set in Des Moines, with the twins in high school. Kate and Allison were 16, identical in appearance, but opposites in personalities. Allison was the responsible one and Kate the spunky troublemaker who often got them both into trouble. Pretending to be Allison was one of Kate's favorite tricks.

Art was their widower father, who ran a gym and dance studio in their hometown of Des Moines, Iowa. Beth was one of his instructors and Michael was Kate's boyfriend.

When Double Trouble returned for its second season in December 1984, Kate and Allison had moved to New York to pursue separate careers.

Kate wanted to become an actress, while her more practical sister was enrolled in the Fashion Institute of Technology studying design. They lived in a spacious town house with their crazy Aunt Margo, a successful wrier of children's stories.

Also living in the house were Billy and Charles, two aspiring actors and kindred spirits of Kate's. Mr. Arrechia was an obnoxious, overbearing instructor at the Fashion Institute and Aileen was Allison's best friend and fellow student.

In real life the Sagal twins were the daughters of the late film director Boris Sagal and the younger sisters of Katey Sagal of Married . . . with Children.

THE CAST:
Kate Foster..... Jean Sagal
Allison Foster..... Liz Sagal
Art Foster (1984)..... Donnelly Rhodes
Beth McConnell (1984)..... Patricia Richardson
Michael Gillette (1984)..... Jon Caliri
Aunt Margo..... Barbara Barrie
Billy Batalato..... Jonathan Schmock
Charles Kincaid..... James Vallely
Mr. Arrechia..... Michael D. Roberts
Aileen Lewis..... Anne-Marie Johnson

EPISODE GUIDE:
SEASON ONE

SEASON TWO
12/01/1984 If We Can Make It Here...
12/08/1984 Do You Believe in Magic?
12/15/1984 Dream Girls
12/22/1984 O Come All Ye Faithful
01/05/1985 Man for Margo
01/12/1985 The Boy Next Door
01/19/1985 Memories
01/26/1985 Two Girls for Every Boy
02/02/1985 The Write Stuff
02/09/1985 Commercial Break
02/16/1985 Old Movies
02/23/1985 September Song
03/02/1985 Funny Girl
03/23/1985 The Day of the Rose
03/30/1985 Where's Poppa?

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