As of July 2026, Gimme a Break! Season 4 aired in 1984 with 25 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Gimme a Break! Season 4

1984 25 Episodes Comedy · Family ⭐ 7/10

Gimme a Break! Season 4 is currently streaming on major platforms, and it delivers exactly the kind of comedy that earns a loyal following. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. With 31 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Nell Carter leads a cast with real comic timing. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, Gimme a Break! Season 4 earns its spot. Gimme a Break! Season 4 gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. Season 4 of Gimme a Break! Includes 25 episodes. It aired from September 1984 to May 1985. Nell Carter and Dolph Sweet lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1984. What keeps Gimme a Break! Season 4 from feeling disposable is a cast that clearly understands the material better than the format usually demands. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

For viewers who want something light without wanting something stupid, Gimme a Break! Season 4 respects your intelligence. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Nell Carter's comic timing carries it through its weaker moments. The kind of comedy you recommend to someone who claims they do not watch much.

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🎬 Gimme a Break! Season 4 — Episode Guide

E1
New Orleans (1)
1984-09-29
Nell and Joey go to New Orleans where Nells sees a man she hant seen in 15 years. The two take Joey to the World's Fair, and when they go to visit a jazz club, he proposes to her. She is baffled by his proposal and doesn't know what to say. As this is happening, a man is watching Joey in the jazz cl...
E2
New Orleans (2)
1984-10-06
Joey and his father reunite, and he takes Joey on a day at the World's fair. He then asks Nell if he can have Joey sleep on his boat, which she agrees to. In the morning, there is no sign of Joey, and Nell finds out the boat went back to Gnome Alaska. She and the man that asked her to marry him quar...
E3
Nell's Birthday
1984-10-13
Nell gets the bitrhday blues at turning 33. Addy is mocking her as the two are going on a cruise for singles 18-32 years old and she can lie about her age. When the two return home from dinner, the family surprises Nell with a cake and tell her that her birth certificate says she was a year younger ...
E4
Grandpa's Secret Life
1984-10-20
An old Polish man finds Grandpa and forces him to marry his daughter. He finds out that Grandpa was the man that came over on the steamship Krakaur in the early 1900's, and that he and his daughter did the hanky panky together. When Nell meets the man's daughter, she tells her that she doesn't care ...
E5
Sam's First Love
1984-10-27
Sam is in love with a boy who just happens to be a big heel. He borrows money from the whole family, and when Nell tells him to leave the house, he and Sam decide to run off. Nell is shocked to find out that Sam's love Jeffrey had left her on the beach and had taken all of her money. Sam sears to ne...
E6
Who Dunnit?
1984-11-03
Nell and Ray Parker, Jr. have a difference of opinion over giving CPR to a fallen man. When the man dies, Nell and Ray decide to give a show for his wife. What they didn't know was that he was a gangster.
E7
Breakdance
1984-11-10
When Katie needs money for her business, Joey helps her out by breakdancing at the beach. Nell finds out Joey's grades are slipping in school, and when Addy finds sand in his shoes, she realizes he is going to the beach afterschool. When Nell gets there, Joey tells her Katies buisness is in trouble,...
E8
Daddy's Little Girl
1984-11-17
While at Skipper Dwayne's for dinner, Addy finds out her car is being towed away as Nell is approached by a sleezeball who wants to go out with her. A man at a neaby table tells him to leave her alone and she is swept away by him. When he drops by the house while Addy is there, she is shocked to see...
E9
Carl's Delicate Moment
1984-11-24
It's a case of sexual harassment when a female officer wants a raise and the Chief will not give it to her. SHe takes the case to Addy's Congress of Determined Women, and the chief fears she will take him to court. The cheif worries for nothing when the female officer tells him she had a dream of hi...
E10
Julie's Lie
1984-12-01
Nell and Addy go up to a ski lodge to find Julie with her boyfriend, Jonathan after they win their big debate. When Jonathan hurts his foot in an accident, Nell goes to his room to help him, with her date, who is a doctor, and is shocked to see it is Jonathan, and finds Julie in the bathroom. Julie ...
E11
Baby of the Family
1984-12-08
Samantha gets upset at Nell, who disapproves of her going on a camping trip with teenage boys which will not be chapperoned. She gets increasingly angry at her when she favors Joey rather than her, and dresses Joey in blackface when he is to perform ""Toot-Toot-Tootsie"" in front of Nell's Congregat...
E12
TV or Not TV
1984-12-15
After being lifted by a class at night school on how TV tears families apart from one another, Nell decides to make the family stop watching TV for a night. However, once they make the promise, Simpson comes by and tells the Chief that the football game is on, since it's a special wednesday night ga...
E13
The Spirit of Christmas
1984-12-22
Nell and Addy decide to spend Christmas in her apartment a few days earlier, since she is going to Alabama for Christmas, and wont be home to celebrate it then. As the night progresses, A neighbor of Addy's, comes knocking on the door for cooking oil to make french fries, but when Addy and Nell find...
E14
Grandpa's Will
1985-01-05
When the family tells Grandpa to go see a lawyer to make up his will, he refuses in doing so. In the end, Nell finds out he doesn't want to make out a will because he has nothing left to give his family.
E15
The Answering Machine
1985-01-12
Nell is mad that her current flame is going on a buisness trip with another woman, so she leaves him a message on his answering machine, and then gets second thoughts about it, and forces Samantha and Joey to help her go to his apartment and erase the message.
E16
The Gift
1985-01-19
Nell disapproves of Katie accepting a diamond necklace from her new boyfriend and tells her to give it back to him. However, when she is awarded the title of ""Glenlawn's Woman of the Year"", she is given a mink coat, and decides to wear it, as well as the necklace that Katie is to give back, to her...
E17
Alabamy Bound (1)
1985-01-26
Nell, Addy, and Joey go off to Alabama to arrive for Nell's sister's Wedding. Nell is angered because her mother has not changed, and she is still ridiculing her. Nell is happy that son after the wedding, she will be going back to Glenlawn, and will be away from her mother for good. However, Nell le...
E18
Alabamy Bound (2)
1985-02-02
After hearing the news that her sister Loretta insists that Mama Maybelle move to California to live with Nell in Glenlawn after the wedding, Nell is not keen to the idea. Even when Mama Maybelle finds out that Loretta is planning on sending her to live with Nell in Glenlawn since she and her soon t...
E19
The Earthquake
1985-02-09
Nell is having a very bad day, due to the fact that Sal Bonaducci charged her more money for her car being fixed, and the library overcharging Joey for a late book. When Nell goes to the library to return it, there is an earthquake, which repeats several times. Nell is trapped in the basement office...
E20
The Lookalike
1985-02-16
Nell books Sammy Davis Jr. to appear to the town of Glenlawn, and sing for them. However, when she calls Sammy to ask him if he is arriving on time, he tells her that she had scheduled him for the following month instead. When Nell goes to the gas station to get her car washed, Albert, the man at th...

🎭 Cast of Gimme a Break! Season 4

Nell Carter
Nell Carter
Nell Harper
Dolph Sweet
Dolph Sweet
Carl Kanisky
Kari Michaelsen
Kari Michaelsen
Katie Kanisky
John Hoyt
John Hoyt
Stanley Kanisky
Lauri Hendler
Lauri Hendler
Julie Kanisky
Joey Lawrence
Joey Lawrence
Joey Donovan
Telma Hopkins
Telma Hopkins
Addy Wilson
Lara Jill Miller
Lara Jill Miller
Sam Kanisky
Howard Morton
Howard Morton
Ralph Simpson

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