Gimme a Break!
Gimme a Break!
TV ShowEnded

Gimme a Break!

6.6 / 10
1981
6 seasons
137 episodes
ComedyFamily

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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Gimme a Break! - Season 3 Opening Credits

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Katie the Crook

    29-10-198130m

    In the series premiere, Samantha comes home with a black eye, and Nell teaches her a few skills on how to fight. Julie an her friend are studying on where babies come from, and as...

  • Ep 2

    2.A Good Man is Hard to Find

    05-11-198130m

    Nell and Angie go to a bar to meet guys. However, Nell gets sad that she isn't admired by any of the men. She then goes home and the Chief decides to fix her up with one of his off...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Second Time Around

    12-11-198130m

    A woman accidently hits the cheifs police car, because her contact lense came out as a moth sat on her face. When she meets the cheif to tell him how sorry she was for smashing int...

  • Ep 4

    4.Mom's Birthday

    19-11-198130m

    A woman with a perfume gift for Margaret on her birthday shows up, learning that Margaret is deceased. When the Cheif comes home, he is upset because it is Margaret's birthday and...

  • Ep 5

    5.Do or Diet

    26-11-198130m

    Nell decides to hold her PORKO'S meeting at the house, and when she gets on the scale she gets mad because she gained two pounds. WHen the Cheif comes home he is disgraced by the g...

  • Ep 6

    6.A Man in Nell's Room

    03-12-198130m

    When the Cheif finds a man in Nell's room, he tells her he doesn't want her fooling around with guys in the same house as his teenage daughters. Nell decides to quit, and moves in...

  • Ep 7

    7.Your Prisoner is Dead

    10-12-198130m

    As he is on an erand at the drug store, the chief witnesses a robber hold up the place. When the robber turns his gun on him, the chief shoots him in self-defense. However, when he...

  • Ep 8

    8.Julie's Rejection

    17-12-198130m

    Julie wants to join Katie's club, and gets help from Nell and Katie on how to be cool, sitting, and dancing. When she shows up to Katie's group of friends, she totally messes up, a...

  • Ep 9

    9.Julie's First Love

    07-01-198230m

    Julie goes off to the arcade after having no luck at finding a date to the Junior prom. At the arcade, she meets a worker there who is into computers named Arnold and she asks him...

  • Ep 10

    10.Nell's Ex

    6.0
    14-01-198230m

    Nell's finds out that her ex-husband Tony is in town and wants to meet with her. At the house, he tells her that he is going to be on the Merv Griffith show and needs $1,000. Nell...

  • Ep 11

    11.Katie the Cheat

    7.0
    21-01-198230m

    The chief is counting on Katie to do real good on her final exam, but she gets Julie to take it instead. The family is shocked to hear what has happened, when she declines the mone...

  • Ep 12

    12.The Emergency

    8.0
    04-02-198230m

    Katie comes home with pain in her stomache and Nell rushes her to the emergency room. Once there, she meets a pushy receptionist and seeks a doctor on her own time to help Katie. T...

  • Ep 13

    13.Nell Goes Home

    11-02-198230m

    As the Cheif is getting ready to leave for an assignment in New York, Samantha is mad that she can't go fishing with a male friend of her's due to the fact that he will not be arou...

  • Ep 14

    14.Samantha Steals a Squad Car

    8.0
    18-02-198230m

    As the chief is preparing a speech for an awards banquet, Nell accidently sits on his cap, which ticks him off. As the two fight, Samantha comes home, complaining that a girl calle...

  • Ep 15

    15.Grandma Fools Around

    25-02-198230m

    The family gets ready for Grandma and Grandpa's 55th anniversary at the house. Meanwhile, back at their house, Grandma and Grandpa are reminiscing over old photos and love letters...

  • Ep 16

    16.Hot Muffins

    11-03-198230m

    Katie's band is a big success in Glenlawn as they perform at amateur night at a restaraunt. A big producer spots them, and tells them he loved the act, and offers them a job far aw...

  • Ep 17

    17.Sam's Affair

    18-03-198230m

    Samantha and her friend Scottie from her baseball team decide to sit on the couch and watch some television. As they are intimidated by a love story, they talk about kissing, and t...

  • Ep 18

    18.The Robbery

    25-03-198230m

    The Kaniskis come home to find burglars at work, when they return home from thei cheif's law enforcement officer of the year award ceremony. However, Nell is at a stip club, seeing...

  • Ep 19

    19.An Unmarried Couple

    7.0
    01-04-198230m

    Katie's friend Valerie shows up at the Kanisky house, pregnant and due any day. She tells Katie that her boyfriend Jonathan had a fight with her and the two broke up and she has no...

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