King of Kensington

- Season 3

(1977)

Cathy is fired from her job at the Daycare Centre and Larry offers her a job in the store. She takes over the operation but drives everyone crazy. King takes her to dinner at Luigi's to fire her.

Larry fills in as a guest speaker at the Merchants ' Association Dinner, where his hilarious family anecdotes are a bit hit. Duke books him into Luigi's as a stand-up comic, but his professional debut almost turns into a total disaster.

King tells a gawky, tomboy teenager that he will help her find a date for her prom night. With Cathy's help, King turns her into a beautiful, young lady, ready for her first big night out.

Larry King is held hostage in his store by a dynamite-laden madman who is determined to blow himself up.

The Kings' boiler breaks and Larry hires a cut-rate plumbing outfit to repair it. The novice plumber succeeds only in blowing it up.

Larry and Cathy go to Buffalo for a second honeymoon. Larry's attempts to save the marriage of the newlyweds in the next room put his own marriage in jeopardy.

Cathy is asked to help a female photographer take pictures of "masculine aesthetics" (nude males). Larry resists - and then turns up as a model in the photography session.

Larry becomes jealous of Cathy's dance teacher, and tries to make her understand how he feels by taking cello lessons from a very attractive woman. Unfortunately, Cathy shows no sign of concern.

After an argument with Gladys, Cathy moves out, insisting that she and Larry live in a dingy, one-room flat.

Gladys' cooking is so popular that she decides to open a lunch room in the back of the store. When Gladys breaks her leg the evening before a special luncheon, Larry tries to save the day.

Larry's long friendship with Duke is jeopardized when Duke claims that he foiled an attempted robbery at Malone's Bar. Actually, Larry made the decisive move. King's dilemma is magnified when he is asked to present an award to Duke for his heroism.

Larry worries that Gladys is not socializing enough, and enters Gladys and himself as partners in the local dance group's annual contest.

Larry is distressed to learn that a gentleman from Vancouver has proposed to his mother, and wants Gladys to leave the store and her family to live with him.

Larry offers his back room to a man who has a lunch-time prayer group involving a goat, a gong, a xylophone, and a deity named Kronos.

Larry takes Cathy to Louis' pool hall for an evening of fun. Piqued about losing, Cathy secretly takes lessons from the local pool shark and challenges Larry to a re-match.

Larry and Cathy experience the "joys of parenthood" when the teenage girl they are minding for the weekend runs away with her boyfriend.

Larry and his friends buy a racehorse that Duke talks him into keeping in the back room of the variety store in order to save on stable fees. Trouble begins when the Kensington health inspector arrives.

Cathy, who cannot stand Duke's male chauvinism provokes an argument between Duke and his wife, Rosa. The Kings' home turns into a circus when Rosa and her three rambunctious bambinos leave Duke and move in with them.

Gladys asks Larry to buy her a ticket for a lucky draw. When the ticket wins, Cathy insists that since Gladys didn't pay for it, she and Larry are entitled to the prize - a trip for two to Las Vegas.

The woman Larry almost married, now a successful novelist, member of the jet-set and thrice-divorced, returns to Kensington to research a new novel but is that all she wants?

Larry needs some extra money. When his cousin Barney, whom he never liked and never will like, returns to Kensington, King finds it hard to resist his lucrative business proposition.

Cathy volunteers Larry to be the chairman of a blood-donor clinic, only to discover that he is terrified of giving blood.

Cathy returns home after a week-long retreat with some news: she's leaving Larry after nine years of marriage.