
Gimme a Break!
Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters.
Gimme a Break!
Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters.
Gimme a Break!
Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters.

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Episode 1: Katie the Crook
In the series premiere, Samantha comes home with a black eye, and Nell teaches her a few skills on h...
Episode 2: A Good Man is Hard to Find
Nell and Angie go to a bar to meet guys. However, Nell gets sad that she isn't admired by any of the...
Episode 3: The Second Time Around
A woman accidently hits the cheifs police car, because her contact lense came out as a moth sat on h...
Episode 4: Mom's Birthday
A woman with a perfume gift for Margaret on her birthday shows up, learning that Margaret is decease...
Episode 5: Do or Diet
Nell decides to hold her PORKO'S meeting at the house, and when she gets on the scale she gets mad b...
Episode 6: A Man in Nell's Room
When the Cheif finds a man in Nell's room, he tells her he doesn't want her fooling around with guys...
Episode 7: Your Prisoner is Dead
As he is on an erand at the drug store, the chief witnesses a robber hold up the place. When the rob...
Episode 8: Julie's Rejection
Julie wants to join Katie's club, and gets help from Nell and Katie on how to be cool, sitting, and...
Episode 9: Julie's First Love
Julie goes off to the arcade after having no luck at finding a date to the Junior prom. At the arcad...
Episode 10: Nell's Ex
Nell's finds out that her ex-husband Tony is in town and wants to meet with her. At the house, he te...
Episode 11: Katie the Cheat
The chief is counting on Katie to do real good on her final exam, but she gets Julie to take it inst...
Episode 12: The Emergency
Katie comes home with pain in her stomache and Nell rushes her to the emergency room. Once there, sh...
Episode 13: Nell Goes Home
As the Cheif is getting ready to leave for an assignment in New York, Samantha is mad that she can't...
Episode 14: Samantha Steals a Squad Car
As the chief is preparing a speech for an awards banquet, Nell accidently sits on his cap, which tic...
Episode 15: Grandma Fools Around
The family gets ready for Grandma and Grandpa's 55th anniversary at the house. Meanwhile, back at th...
Episode 16: Hot Muffins
Katie's band is a big success in Glenlawn as they perform at amateur night at a restaraunt. A big pr...
Episode 17: Sam's Affair
Samantha and her friend Scottie from her baseball team decide to sit on the couch and watch some tel...
Episode 18: The Robbery
The Kaniskis come home to find burglars at work, when they return home from thei cheif's law enforce...
Episode 19: An Unmarried Couple
Katie's friend Valerie shows up at the Kanisky house, pregnant and due any day. She tells Katie that...
Episode 1: Nell Goes to Jail
While Nell is on the phone with Angie, her phone dies out and a second later a man from the phone co...
Episode 2: Brother Ed and the Hooker
At the bowling alley, the Cheif meets up with Maxine, a prostitute who is used to nail bad cops. Whe...
Episode 3: Sam's Imaginary Friend
Katie and Julie go out on a double date as Samantha tells everyone to make room for Debbie Jo, an im...
Episode 4: Grandpa's Visit
When Grandma leaves to go see her sick sister who is about to have an operation, Grandpa is sent to...
Episode 5: Take My Baby, Please
Katie's friend, Valerie shows up at the Kanisky house with her new baby David. She tells the family...
Episode 6: Porko's
Nell hosts another one of her PORKO meetings at the house, where the head of the weight loss group s...
Episode 7: The Chief's Gay Evening
The Chief goes on a stakeout with two officers where they are on lookout for an old-lady targeter. O...
Episode 8: Katie Steals Julie's Jock
Julie invites a handsome boy at school to come over to stud with her, but he falls for Katie, and th...
Episode 9: Sam Faces Death
Nell is out of town at her cousin's funeral as Simpson storms into the house and says that the Cheif...
Episode 10: Nell Goes Door to Door
Angie tells Nell that she is going on a trip to Mexico with the money she made by selling vaccums. S...
Episode 11: Love Thy Neighbor
Nell is woken up in the early hours of the morning by a neighbors barking dog. When the Cheif wakes...
Episode 12: Love, Kidney
While playing the accordian at dinner, Uncle Ed falls I'll and feints into the fishtank while coolin...
Episode 13: Julie Smokes
The Chief finds a cigarrette in his sock and questions each of the girls about it. When he finds out...
Episode 14: The Centerfold (1)
When Mr. Swackhammer shows up to inform the Cheif about the female officer who posed nude, he rushes...
Episode 15: The Centerfold (2)
The man who has a bomb strapped to him tells Simpson he knows him from some place. He realizes that...
Episode 16: The Custody Suit
Aunt Blanche pays a visit to the Chief on his birthday and threatens to take custody of the girls af...
Episode 17: The Return of the Doo-Wop Girls
Nell tells about her singing past with a doo-wop girl group. Nell and her two friends years before s...
Episode 18: Eddie Gets Married
At the dinner table, Grandpa insists that Eddie should marry Maxine, since they have been going toge...
Episode 19: Grandpa Robs a Bank
Grandpa hides a letter from Grandma and she beleives he is cheating on him. When she secretly takes...
Episode 20: Greenlawn Street Blues
When Samantha reads Nell part of her essay she is doing on the Cheif for school, Nell tells her it w...
Episode 21: Nell and the Kid
While at ""Max's Delacatesan"", Nell and Max see a girl shoplifting. Nell saves her from being arres...
Episode 22: Nell Gets Sick
When Nell is sick at home and the Chief going off to Los Angeles for a meeting, he calls his mother...
Episode 1: The Groupie
Julie wants to meet Andy Gibb and goes to see him after Nell lets her go, despite the fact that the...
Episode 2: The Way to a Man's Heart
Nell falls for James Roland, a former member of her weight group , who continues to go to the classe...
Episode 3: Katie's Commitment
Katie becomes involved with a college professor at Glenlawn Junior College who is much older than he...
Episode 4: Joey (1)
Katie practices her jazz routine to ""Maniac"" for a show that will be taking pace soon in Glenawn....
Episode 5: Joey (2)
Joey goes on a hunger strike and says he is not going to an orphanage. Nell then lies to Joey and te...
Episode 6: The Mayor
The Mayor of Glenlawn falls for Nell, who wants nothing to do with him. He tells her that the cheif...
Episode 7: Melissa
The cheif is awarded man of the year, and Nell tries to fix him up with a woman named Melissa. What...
Episode 8: Nell's Friend
While Nell is out getting the Chief's clothes cleaned, Addy Wilson, Nell's childhood friend arrives...
Episode 9: Grandpa's Rebellion
Nell, the girls and the Cheif fix up the spare room at the house and await Grandpa's arrival home fr...
Episode 10: A Kanisky Christmas
Joey's first Christmas might be a disaster if Nell doesn't get the whole family together. Samantha i...
Episode 11: Herbie
Herbie, Samantha's unseen new friend, puts ideas of judgment day into Samantha's head. An earthquake...
Episode 12: James Returns
James wants to start over again with Nell after she meets him at a fancy restaraunt during a girls n...
Episode 13: Samantha's Protest
Samantha protests against demolition of an historic Spanish site after Nell tells her she did the sa...
Episode 14: Flashback
When the Chief tells Samantha that she cannot go out on a date with a boy, Nell decides to tell the...
Episode 15: Knock Three Times
Nell gets hypnotized to remember where she put Katie's ring for graduation, but she ends up remember...
Episode 16: Valentine
Nell gives advice on Valentine's day to the entire family as she waits for James to come home from h...
Episode 17: The Big Apple (1)
Nell & Addy appear & compete on Wheel of Fortune during Best Friends week. Nell has $7,600 & wants t...
Episode 18: The Big Apple (2)
Nell calls the Chief for help and he says he will tell a policeman friend of his about it and he wil...
Episode 19: Rodeo
After the chief & Nell couldn't take Joey to the rodeo in town, Grandpa decides to take him. But th...
Episode 20: Katie's College
Katie decides to ditch college and open her own busines with friend, which the Cheif agrees to. How...
Episode 21: The Center
Nell decides to take Grandpa to the senior citizen Center to have some time to spend with people his...
Episode 22: Class of '84
Nell helps write a book report for a straight-A student who has several children to take care of, an...
Episode 1: New Orleans (1)
Nell and Joey go to New Orleans where Nells sees a man she hant seen in 15 years. The two take Joey...
Episode 2: New Orleans (2)
Joey and his father reunite, and he takes Joey on a day at the World's fair. He then asks Nell if he...
Episode 3: Nell's Birthday
Nell gets the bitrhday blues at turning 33. Addy is mocking her as the two are going on a cruise for...
Episode 4: Grandpa's Secret Life
An old Polish man finds Grandpa and forces him to marry his daughter. He finds out that Grandpa was...
Episode 5: Sam's First Love
Sam is in love with a boy who just happens to be a big heel. He borrows money from the whole family,...
Episode 6: Who Dunnit?
Nell and Ray Parker, Jr. have a difference of opinion over giving CPR to a fallen man. When the man...
Episode 7: Breakdance
When Katie needs money for her business, Joey helps her out by breakdancing at the beach. Nell finds...
Episode 8: Daddy's Little Girl
While at Skipper Dwayne's for dinner, Addy finds out her car is being towed away as Nell is approach...
Episode 9: Carl's Delicate Moment
It's a case of sexual harassment when a female officer wants a raise and the Chief will not give it...
Episode 10: Julie's Lie
Nell and Addy go up to a ski lodge to find Julie with her boyfriend, Jonathan after they win their b...
Episode 11: Baby of the Family
Samantha gets upset at Nell, who disapproves of her going on a camping trip with teenage boys which...
Episode 12: TV or Not TV
After being lifted by a class at night school on how TV tears families apart from one another, Nell...
Episode 13: The Spirit of Christmas
Nell and Addy decide to spend Christmas in her apartment a few days earlier, since she is going to A...
Episode 14: Grandpa's Will
When the family tells Grandpa to go see a lawyer to make up his will, he refuses in doing so. In the...
Episode 15: The Answering Machine
Nell is mad that her current flame is going on a buisness trip with another woman, so she leaves him...
Episode 16: The Gift
Nell disapproves of Katie accepting a diamond necklace from her new boyfriend and tells her to give...
Episode 17: Alabamy Bound (1)
Nell, Addy, and Joey go off to Alabama to arrive for Nell's sister's Wedding. Nell is angered becaus...
Episode 18: Alabamy Bound (2)
After hearing the news that her sister Loretta insists that Mama Maybelle move to California to live...
Episode 19: The Earthquake
Nell is having a very bad day, due to the fact that Sal Bonaducci charged her more money for her car...
Episode 20: The Lookalike
Nell books Sammy Davis Jr. to appear to the town of Glenlawn, and sing for them. However, when she c...
Episode 21: Cat Story
Officer Simpson ane the chief go out during a stormy night in Glenlawn, to check upon a bridge that...
Episode 22: Police Mamas
When the whole staff at the police station gets food poisoning, it's up to Addy and Nell to help the...
Episode 23: Monkey See, Monkey Do
The chief gets angry Katie after her friend who got a part in a play offers her apartment to her. Th...
Episode 24: Friendship
Nell is angry that Addy has not called her in over a week, and is doing things with other members of...
Episode 25: Julie's Birthday
On Julies 18th birthday, Nell has a plan to get her and Jonathan back together after they broke up....
Episode 1: Joey's Train
Nell is sad and doesnt want anyone to remind her of the Cheif since he pased away. Joey recives part...
Episode 2: Ship of Fools (1)
Nell decides to take her ex-husband's offer up on performing on his ship. While she is on the ship,s...
Episode 3: Ship of Fools (2)
While continuing to perform on Tony's ship, Nell discovers that he has fallen in love all over again...
Episode 4: The Man From Zoron
Joey is saved by a man from being hit by a bus, and when the man tells his family that he is from an...
Episode 5: Addy's Goodbye
Nell finds out Addy was given a teaching job as the a Dean at Columbia University by a professor she...
Episode 6: So Long, Jonathan
Jonathan leaves on his archeological Mexican dig project. In the meantime, back at the Kanisky house...
Episode 7: Mama
Mama Maybelle arrives in Glenlawn to visit Nell, and tells her that she has to have an eye operation...
Episode 8: Sam's Little Girl
Sam is taking the role of a big sister to a girl named Pam, a kid from a single-parent home. When Pa...
Episode 9: The Elevator
Nell finds out that Addy is engaged to be married to her dentist, who has been previously married be...
Episode 10: Nell's New Car
Nell finds out Addy is selling her car, and wants to be the first one to take it off her hands. Howe...
Episode 11: Nell's Gifted Child
Nel finds out that Joey is a gifted child, and should take a test to see what grade he should be pla...
Episode 12: Katie's Apartment
Nell finds out that Katie is dating a married author of a famous book. She tells Katie to stop seein...
Episode 13: Snippets
Nell and the gang decorate the Christmas tree as Joey pretends that he is sick, but wants to help ou...
Episode 14: Second Chance (1)
Nell decides to quit college and pursue a real singing career. She becomes the manager for an ex-con...
Episode 15: Second Chance (2)
The ex-con is sad that Gary hated the song, and decides that singing is not the career for him. Nell...
Episode 16: Bienvenido, Jonathan
Jonathan returns home, giving attention to everyone accept Julie, who beleives that Jonathan doesn't...
Episode 17: The Gun
Joey accidently shoots Nell when he finds the cheif's gun in one of her dresser drawers. The whole f...
Episode 18: A Lesson for Nell
Nell finds out that Grandpa is dating Sally Parsons, who was previously dating Officer Simpson. When...
Episode 19: Pride and Prejudice
Nel is rejected for a job as a receptionist because she thinks she is black. When Addy decdies to go...
Episode 20: Family Reunion
Nell's sister Loretta comes to town when she decides to leave Howard. She confides in Nell on what t...
Episode 21: Getting to Know You
When Officer Simpson leaves his cousins adopted children with Nell to babysit for her, her date who...
Episode 22: Katie's Korner
Katie, who has been sad since her latest boyfriend left her and is now engaged, is going broke and i...
Episode 23: Found Money
When Nell's grandmother passes away and leaves her a nice amount of money, she decides to split it w...
Episode 24: The Purse Snatcher
As she is at a Greek restaraunt with her freinds, Nell's purse is stolen, which upsets everyone. How...
Episode 1: Sam Goes to College (1)
Samantha, excitied that she has gotten into Littlfield College in New Jersey, is let down when she r...
Episode 2: Sam Goes to College (2)
Nell continues to talk Samantha out of moving to Sanfransisco with Katie. She then realizes that Sam...
Episode 3: Below Sea Level
Nell and Joey fly to New Jersy to move Samantha to her college living space at Littlefield College....
Episode 4: Joey Meets Matthew
Joey meets Matthew finally, and is mad that he has a little brother. Tim says that he has some matt...
Episode 5: Nell Goes Back to New York
Nell recives a letter from Joey in New York, telling her that he is fine, but she knows that Tim is...
Episode 6: The Apartment
Nell tries to get a job at a famous New York publishing company. She then decides to rent an apartme...
Episode 7: I Love New York
Nell is fed up with the new apartment in New York, and tells Addy she wants to go back to Glenlawn t...
Episode 8: Nell the Boss
After Addy is laid off at the University for going on strike, Nell hires her as an assistant at Mcdi...
Episode 9: Harry the Hamster
Nell is furious when she hears a squeaking noise coming from Joey and Matthew's room. When she check...
Episode 10: Joey the Gambler
Joey begins to run ilegal gambling tickets from the staff at El Gatspacio, and Nell is horrified whe...
Episode 11: The Scam
As Nell and her mother are at the bank to put items into Mama Maybelle's safe deposit box, a con man...
Episode 12: Christmas in New York
Nell decides to buy a Christmas tree, as does Addy, who both know that it costs too much for one in...
Episode 13: Nell's Secret Admirer
Nell gets a call from her highschool secret admirer, whom she never knew personally in Alabama. She...
Episode 14: The Loan
Nell gives Addy a loan to buy a new dress to attend a gala event, knowing that she will pay her back...
Episode 15: The Window (1)
Nell has a better job in her company as a book editor. However, that tears her away from staying wi...
Episode 16: The Window (2)
Nell decides to quit her job so she could stay home with the boys. So Nell decides to get a new job...
Episode 17: Joey's First Crush
Joey begins to have a crush on Maggie, and at her husband's birthday party, Nell finds out that he w...
Episode 18: Joey's Teacher
Joey is upset because his teacher, Mr. Gronomeir keeps hating him. When Nell invites him to the hous...
Episode 19: Joey's Hero
When Joey's favorite television star ""Captain Jerk"", is hospitalized after swallowing a whistle, i...
Episode 20: Joey the Gigolo
Nell knows that her boss is beginning to fire many workers on the job, and when she finds out he has...
Episode 21: Parents' Week (1)
Nell finds out that it is Parents Week at Littlefield College in New Jersy, and she is upset that Sa...
Episode 22: Parents' Week (2)
Nell tries to convice Samantha to stay in college, and in the end, is successful at doing so. She al...
Episode 23: Save the Church
Nell prepares for Mary-Ellen Baldwin's arrival, a snobbish foe of hers from Alabama. She arrives in...
Episode 24: Someday, My Prince . . .
Nell is wooed by an African man who invented chocolate chip cookies in his African country. She is g...
Episode 25: Mama's Date
When Grandpa comes to get the boys' pajamas, since they are sleeping in his apartment because Addy i...
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