A nun whose vocation has traditionally provided assignments to cultured settings is assigned to an orphanage inhabited by a motley group of children. SISTER KATE was an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1989–1990 television season.
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.
Kate goes to extraordinary measures to break Freddy's smoking habit. Neville gets upset when someone wants to adopt Viloet.
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.
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.
April is irked because Eugene picked Freddy to sketch in the buff, and Violet is irked because Neville is spending time with Kate.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Freddy's father Nick pays a visit on furlough from prison. He's no St. Nick, but he makes Christmas memorable.
Eugene decides he needs to prove he's a man.
The Kids star in their own candid videos to sell themselves to perspective parents.
A sweet 16 party for April isn't planned as a surprise, but that's how it works out.
A lot of bingo addicts are attracted by games at the house- an Kate turns out to B-1.
Todd's date turns into a nightmare.
Kate can't understand why Underwood is always underfoot.
