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Mad About You
1992 - 1999 6.7 (227 votes) 7 Seasons
Genres
Comedy
Networks
NBC
Created By
Paul Reiser
Danny Jacobson

Mad About You

Never marry anyone more neurotic than yourself.

Overview

Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.

Key Crew

Producer: Craig Knizek, Jenji Kohan, Maria Semple, Stephen Engel, Bill Grundfest, Brenda Hampton, Robert Heath, Marjorie Weitzman, Andy Gordon, Eileen Conn, Richard Day, Mary Connelly, Bruce Chevillat, Liz Coe, Jeffrey Klarik, Steve Paymer

Top Cast

Paul Reiser
Paul Reiser

Paul Buchman

Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt

Jamie Buchman

John Pankow
John Pankow

Ira Buchman

Cynthia Harris
Cynthia Harris

Sylvia Buchman

Louis Zorich
Louis Zorich

Burt Buchman

Seasons

Season 0 poster
Season 0 ()

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember The Pilot

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember Met Someone

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember Virtual Reality

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember Cold Feet

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember Giblets For Murray

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: The Seven Warning Signs Of Madness

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Are Mad About Guest Stars

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: Mad About The Theme

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 9: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember Our Fifteen Minutes

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember Alan Brady Show

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember Yoko Said

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 12: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember The Finale - Season 4

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 13: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember Citizen Buchman

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 14: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember The Penis

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 15: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember The Birth

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 16: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember Letters To Mabel

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 17: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember Moody Blues

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 18: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember Le Sex Show

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 19: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember The Conversation

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 20: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember Paved With Good Intentions

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 21: Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt Remember The Final Frontier

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 22: Mad About You... The Promos

Runtime: 23 min
Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1992)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Romantic Improvisations
1992-09-23

Paul and Jamie Buchman are newlywed adjusting to life together in Manhattan. When only after 5 months of marriage Jamie complains that their sexual life is not like it used to be, Paul decides to come earlier from his job so they could spend a nice evening alone. But, their scheduled evening goes awry as each assumes the other had cancelled their dinner plans with friends.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: Sofa's Choice
1992-09-30

To Paul, a couch by any other name is not a couch, especially if it is a divan, a settee, or worse, a love seat. Jamie is determined that their first major purchase to be jointly made and when dragged to the department store, Paul manages to hyperventilate. When they hang out together in the store, Mark discovers to Paul some informations that he probably shouldn't ever find about.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: Sunday Times
1992-10-07

Paul and Jamie enjoy a quiet Sunday with nothing to do except decide what to do. However, they have to decide whether to see a movie, take in a parade or get to the museum before their friends' Sundays' intrude.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: Out of the Past
1992-10-14

News of his ex-girlfriend visiting New York first fills Paul with excitement, followed by guilt, culminating in blithering idiocy after he invites Jamie to Riff's to meet her and Jamie accepts.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: Paul in the Family
1992-10-21

An unexpectedly long visit by Jamie's parents, Gus (guest star: Paul Dooley) and Theresa Stemple (guest star Nancy Dussault) turns her into a raving lunatic who bribes Lisa with cold cash and cab fare into sharing the experience.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: I'm Just So Happy for You
1992-10-28

Paul's film about Yankee Stadium is rejected by PBS the same day Jamie snags a major advertising account, turning her celebratory bash into a defeat party.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: Token Friend
1992-11-04

Paul is suddenly reluctant to use the subway because a former fellow film school student turns up as the token clerk at his station.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: The Apartment
1992-11-11

Planning their last will and testament together brings up the subject of Paul's old bachelor pad, which he now sublets to Cosmo Kramer (guest star Michael Richards). Jamie wants Paul to get ridden of his apartment, but Paul is against that. They get into a fight, which results by Paul deciding about the future of his apartment and Jamie getting ridden of her t-shirt from her past (which she later wants back).

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 9: Riding Backwards
1992-11-18

On a trip to Connecticut to spend Thanksgiving with Jamie's parents, Paul and Jamie are doing fine, Mark and Fran begin to fight, while Selby and Lisa are just friends. However, on the return journey, everything is different.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: Neighbors from Hell
1992-12-09

The Buchmans get off on the wrong foot with the neighbors across the hall, Hal and Maggie Conway (guest stars Paxton Whitehead and Judy Geeson), and each subsequent step to improve relations. However, that decidion seems to be making the matters worse.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: Met Someone
1992-12-16

The story of how Paul and Jamie met is told, beginning with a chance encounter on a Sunday evening by the newstand, followed by Paul's hard work to locate Jamie. Jamie breaks up with her boyfriend and is feeling strange. Paul appears in her office bringing her clothes and as time passes, they go on a dinner date...

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 12: Maid About You
1993-01-06

The Buchmans find their new once-a-week maid, Masha (guest star Beata Pozniak) a big help, but she is heartbroken that her affection for ""Mr. Paul"" isn't being reciprocated.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 13: Togetherness
1993-01-13

Producer Jamie gets to hire the director for a new spot for the New York City tourism campaign and picks Paul so they can work together. However, they soon find out how much togetherness is too much.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 14: Weekend Getaway
1993-01-27

An escape to the country side doesn't immediately cure Jamie's blues, but once it does, she wants to stay in the country permanently, make apples, till soil and run a Chinese restaurant.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 15: The Wedding Affair
1993-02-06

After unwittingly revealing a secret about a bride to her father on her wedding day, Paul badgers Jamie into telling him one of hers, and is soon sorry that he did.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 16: Love Among the Tiles
1993-02-13

What should a couple do when trapped in their bathroom on Valentine's Day? Paul and Jamie show the way--painting toenails, giving mutual facials, and using antacid tablets as food and more.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 17: The Billionaire
1993-02-20

An extremely energetic and eccentric billionaire wants Paul to make a film about him. Meanwhile, Paul hires a new editor/cameraman who is anything but energetic.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 18: The Man Who Said Hello
1993-02-27

Paul's father has his 15 minutes of fame following an incident with Regis Philbin that embarasses Paul. Events progress to a point where Paul is being viewed by the entire city as an over-reactive son.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 19: Swept Away
1993-05-01

Jamie thinks that Lisa and her new boyfriend, Michael (guest star Charles Shaughnessy) are moving too fast in their relationship. When Lisa and Michael decide to move in together after a week's acquaintance, Paul tries to stop Jaime, but she is unable to stay uninvolved.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 20: The Spy Girl Who Loved Me
1993-05-08

Jamie's new client is a former TV star, Diane Caldwell (guest star Barbara Feldon) idolized by Paul and Ira in their childhood. They quickly revert back to their old ways and compete for star attention. But, Ira charmes Diane before Paul and gets to spend a night with Diane. But, next day, everything is about to change when Ira finds out the truth...

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 21: The Painter
1993-05-15

Jamie hires an ex-boyfriend, Sherman (guest star: Rick Rossovich), to paint the apartment and is a bit annoyed when Paul is not concerned by the prospect of her old flame being alone with her. When Paul comes home from his job, he finds Sherman and Fran together in their bed having sex, because Fran is stressed over her move-out from Mark's apartment. So, Paul talks to Mark about their marriage. Jamie and Paul try to get them together back, but they decide to get split.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 22: Happy Anniversary
1993-05-22

At the Buchmans' first anniversary party, love blossoms between Warren and Connie, while Paul tries to turn back the clock. However, there is no love between the now separated Fran and Mark.

Runtime: 23 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1993)

No overview available.

25 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Murray's Tale
1993-09-16

Lisa takes Murray out for a walk and returns with a dog that obviously isn't him. Meanwhile, Paul and Jamie contact the cops and everyone else joins in the hunt for the real Murray. When they finally find him they also encounter people that own the dog Lisa brought home that turn out to be totally different than them.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: Bing, Bang, Boom
1993-09-23

Phone calls, noisy neighbors and an invisible mouse being chased by Murray are some of the distractions that Paul and Jamie face while struggling to find romance during a long-awaited evening toether.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: Bedfellows
1993-09-30

A suspected heart attack sends Paul's father to the hospital, leaving his mother home alone, until Jamie tries to score some much needed ""points"" with her mother-in-law.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: Married to the Job
1993-10-07

An evening out at Riff's sees Paul complaining about his meddlesome new producer, and Jamie venting about her same old credit-grabbing boss, who happens to be seated nearby.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: So I Married a Hair Murderer
1993-10-14

Paul is anything but pleased with Jamie, who has too much free time on her hands, and uses it to cut his hair and his film, improving on the original cut.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: The Unplanned Child
1993-10-28

Paul's shooting schedule leaves it all up to Jamie to go out trick-or-treating with his seven-year-old nephew, whose extended two-hour visit Paul forgot to mention to her.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: Natural History
1993-11-04

What brought Paul and Jamie together? Was it fate or a big coincidence? Jamie's belief that it was fate annoys Paul to no end, especially because Jamie is spending more time with Lisa than with him.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: Surprise
1993-11-11

Jamie suspects a surprise party waiting for her at home. However, that's not what has been arranged for her birthday by Paul, who gets separated from her on the subway en route to the surprise.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 9: A Pair of Hearts
1993-11-18

A free weekend in Atlantic City has been mysteriously arranged for Jamie & Paul and Fran & Ira, by Ira's ex-wife as it turns out, now a casino hostess who wants Ira to sign divorce papers.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: It's a Wrap
1993-12-02

An unemployed Jamie is envious of Paul, whose work is something he loves to do. Meanwhile, Paul feels betrayed by his producer Lou, who is now tampering with Paul's latest labor of love.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: Edna Returns
1993-12-09

Lisa acquires her 15 minutes of fame under a pseudonym in her shrink's book, and Paul is caught in the middle of the sibling squabble that follows when Jamie takes exception to being called Lisa's overbearing sister.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 12: Paul is Dead
1994-01-06

The death of a Paul Buchman affects Jamie and Paul quite suddenly, leaving them without cash or credit. Meanwhile, Paul is morbidly curious about his namesake.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 13: Same Time Next Week
1994-01-13

Jamie and Paul must endure two months of separation when Paul has to shoot a film in Chicago, returning only for the weekends, weather permitting.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 14: The Late Show
1994-01-27

Fran tells Jamie that she may be pregnant, and Paul finds out from Ira that Ira may have gotten someone pregnant, but neither realizes that it is Ira who might have gotten Fran pregnant.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 15: Virtual Reality
1994-02-03

Paul invests in a startup venture, bringing out a virtual-reality system with Ira, after a demo but without consulting Jamie, who reacts calmly to his actions, both real and imagined.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 16: Cold Feet
1994-02-10

A Valentine's Day story that begins with Jamie and Paul at Rockefeller Center rink side and moves back three years to the day they finally moved in together and ended up engaged.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 17: Instant Karma
1994-02-14

Jamie's fortune cookie predicts that bad luck will follow the guilty, but Paul is convinced her luck is being visited on him even as they head for a party at Yoko Ono's place.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 18: The Tape
1994-02-24

Jamie and Paul are horrified to discover that Paul has unwittingly handed over their revealing homemade video to the Family Network, instead of a documentary about a zoo.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 19: Love Letters
1994-03-10

The Buchmans find letters written by former tenants of their apartment chronicling a World War II love story that Jamie feels parallels her and Paul's.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 20: The Last Scampi
1994-04-07

Jamie and Paul refuse to take sides in an incident between their mothers, while Lisa plays both sides to her advantage. Meanwhile, Murray is found to be suffering from his own mother problems.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 21: Disorientation
1994-04-28

The night before Jamie returns to school she worries that Paul might not support her fully. In the morning before Jamie leaves, Paul realizes that he has forgotten to mail her registration.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 22: Storms We Cannot Weather
1994-05-05

Althrough he is pretty disturbed by Jamie's lenieny to her younger school college, Paul accepts to hang out with them on a blind date that Jamie organised for Nick & Fran. But, while talking about an idea for a movie about the fastest cook on the world, Paul discovers that the waiter at the Riff's is no one else than Mark, Fran's ex-husband...

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 23: Up All Night
1994-05-12

Jamie is suffering from sleeplessness because she drank four cuffs of tea full of coffeine while learning for a test. All furious, Jamie urges Paul to spend the night awake with her that leads them to an all-night adventure in the building, from the basement to the rooftop, which ends with a tango together with John Astin, if that's who he really is.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 24: With This Ring... (1)
1994-05-19

Paul finds Mark working in a local store. After he meets the owners of the shop, Kim & Tammy, Paul finds out that Mark is learning to pray Zen. While Mark is trying to make him join him in pray, Paul finds out that he lost his wedding ring. Worried about what will jamie tell him, Paul rushes to the house to find him.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 25: With This Ring... (2)
1994-05-19

The real marriage anniversary arrives and Jamie gives Paul a gift - swiss military knife - and receives a gift from Paul - a machine for making sugar products. Both disappointed with their gifts, they go to a store where it turns out that they have totally different opinions about children. Then, when they have lunch with Paul's sister, the Buchmans try to entertain Susan's son Nah while she's on the phone. Paul realizes that having kids is nothing different than having a dog, but Jamie has totally different opinion...

Runtime: 23 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1994)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Escape from New York
1994-09-22

A wave of heat and the death of climate device rushes Paul and Jamie to find a refreshment. They go out on the streets of NY, but find out that there it's even worse. Jaime convinces Paul that they should runaway from the town and have dinner in a restaurant by the sea where they used to eat. But, while borrowing Fran's car, Jamie gets upset to find out that Fran got her old job...

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: Home
1994-09-29

The war of the Buchmans and the Conways is fully engaged as rumors fly about the apartment building going co-op. Meanwhile, Murray and Sophie, Conway's dog, find true love and then some more.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: Till Death Do Us Part
1994-10-06

After Jamie's dearest uncle dies, Paul, Jamie and Lisa find themselves together on his funeral. But, when Jamie convinces Paul to make a speech, he insluts her entire family with uncomfrontable notices. However, Paul soon realizes that he is the one who is upset, because Jamie insists that her uncle Van's ashes would be in their house until they find a better place for him.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: When I'm Sixty-Four
1994-10-13

The Wickers have a big fight and Mr. Wicker moves in with the Buchmans. Meanwhile, Jamie finally succumbs to an eye exam, where she finds out that she'll have to wear glasses. But, to decide between between glasses and contact lenses is so hard that it seems to be mission: impsossible.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: Legacy
1994-10-20

Arranging an appearance by a former Yankee player for Buchman's Sporting Goods annual midnight sale, Jamie gets her PR juices flowing. But Paul is left feeling uncomfortable, for more reasons than one.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: Pandora's Box
1994-11-03

Jamie works around Paul's opposition to having a TV in their bedroom, and hotwires an additional cable outlet with Fran's help. The resulting complications ultimately lead to a city-wide blackout.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: The Ride Home
1994-11-10

Fran's birthday party is the setting for Jamie's unexpected encounter with an ex-boyfriend, and the saga of who dumped whom dominates her evening. The cab ride home provides two interlocking perspectives of the evening's events.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: Giblets for Murray
1994-11-17

Jamie's perfect Thanksgiving feast involves a buffet for ten and five turkeys, thanks to Murray and the extremely friendly neighborhood grocer Kim.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 9: Once More With Feeling
1994-12-08

As the Buchmans' sex life waxes and wanes, Lisa snags a pair of free dinners, Fran loses a window office and Ira acquires a silent partner.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: The City
1994-12-15

A bad day in the Big Apple leaves Jamie unwilling to go out to see a feel-good movie, but Paul talks her into an evening out, if only to meet Ira's new girlfriend.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: Our Fifteen Minutes
1995-01-05

Paul is one of six documentary filmmakers selected by PBS to turn the camera on themselves for 15 minutes, and in his case, it turns into a big surprise.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 12: How to Fall in Love
1995-01-19

Paul's ideas on how to meet and engage the opposite sex are tested by Jamie in a hypothetical encounter, while Ira has a very real encounter with Jamie's friend.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 13: Mad About You (1)
1995-02-02

The saga of the three months leading up to Paul and Jamie's wedding, what with the invitations, the reception menu, the dress fittings, the band selection, the rehearsal dinner and the remarkable goings-on of the night before the wedding.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 14: Mad About You (2)
1995-02-02

The saga of the three months leading up to Paul and Jamie's wedding, what with the invitations, the reception menu, the dress fittings, the band selection, the rehearsal dinner and the remarkable goings-on of the night before.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 15: Just My Dog
1995-02-09

The tale of Murray's showbiz career, spawned by a walk-on appearance in a commercial directed by Paul, advanced by an eager agent, leading all the way to an audition for a series.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 16: The Alan Brady Show
1995-02-16

Paul finds it very difficult to deal with the considerable ego of a legendary TV star, until help arrives in the form of a tip from a surprising quarter.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 17: Mad Without You
1995-02-23

Jamie goes up to Connecticut to keep her dad company, and the home-alone Paul gets quite giddy enjoying his role as ""Lord of the Manor.""

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 18: Purseona
1995-03-09

Paul's Canadian adventure gets off to a bad start and Jamie's pitch to a client does likewise while Lisa's day is smooth sailing after she accidentally snags her sister's purse and more.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 19: Two Tickets to Paradise
1995-03-30

Paul and Jamie use his parents' non-refundable package for a holiday in the Caribbean, telling tall tales in multiple languages.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 20: Money Changes Everything
1995-04-27

Marianne returns from Luxembourg, sans her husband, but with ""more money than Canada,"" eager to finance Ira's new catalog business with an interest-free loan, but his silent partner finds voice to veto the deal.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 21: Cake Fear
1995-05-04

The saga of Paul's birthdays since meeting Jamie, going back and then forth, recounting the disasters and the strange tale of a bottle of Grandfather Port.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 22: My Boyfriend's Back
1995-05-11

Jamie is obliged to work on an advertising campaign with ex-boyfriend Alan, a graphics artist, who has recently published a comic book about an evil queen in outer space. But the queen's looks and exploits sound like anything but fiction to Jamie.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 23: Up in Smoke (1)
1995-05-18

Unable to buy her an anniversary present, with or without everyone else's help, Paul hands Jamie a slip of paper entitling her to a magical night. Things take a decidedly unusual turn after that.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 24: Up in Smoke (2)
1995-05-18

Unable to buy her an anniversary present, with or without everyone else's help, Paul hands Jamie a slip of paper entitling her to a magical night. Things take a decidedly unusual turn after that.

Runtime: 23 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1995)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: New Sleep-Walking PLUS
1995-09-24

Jamie is enthralled by it, Paul doesn't remember it, Murray didn't see it, and Ira laughs at it--another night and the day after in the Buchmans' lives. Meanwhile, Paul finds employment at the Explorer Channel.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: The Parking Space
1995-10-01

After a four year wait, the Buchmans finally have dibs on a parking space in a nearby garage, but still no car.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: The Test
1995-10-08

A long wait at the bus stop leaves time for the Buchmans to take a Cosmopolitan marriage test. (Clip show).

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: The Good, the Bad and the Not-So-Appealing
1995-10-29

Inspired by a Martha Stewart idea, Sylvia organizes a high-noonish tag-what-you-want lunch for her family, complete with a shoot-out in the kitchen with Jamie.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: I Don't See It
1995-11-05

At first, Paul has only a vague notion he knows who Jamie's interview at City Hall is with, but he figures it out and complicates matters when Jamie and Fran are about to land an important account.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: Yoko Said
1995-11-12

Yoko Ono is in town for some film happenings and Paul tries to do something different for the Explorer Channel with her help.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: An Angel for Murray
1995-11-19

With Murray around, the Buchmans are no dinks, so when Lisa demurs they are obligated to hire a professional to walk Murray. And Murray seems to prefer the newcomer to Paul.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: The Couple
1995-11-26

Three lies, two shows and a realization as Jamie and Paul figure out ""why it will never happen"" to them, or so one is led to believe when their new friends turn out to be not quite what they pretend to be.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 9: New Year's Eve
1995-12-17

Paul and Jamie are obliged to spend New Year's Eve apart for the first time, but strange happenings in Times Square have a will and a way all their own.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: Ovulation Day
1996-01-07

Paul and Jamie try to time a love-in-the-afternoon rendezvous back at their apartment, but his family shows up at the most inopportune time, with Debbie springing a big surprise: she's gay.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: Get Back
1996-01-14

Jamie throws out her back during adventurous sex on the floor, leaving Paul to help out with her duties at City Hall while also trying to get his father to an optometrist's appointment.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 12: Dream Weaver
1996-02-04

A night of cascading dreams of Paul and Jamie's, featuring ostriches, ducks and a party with the frug, with lots of interpretation and a poem (and a half) by Henry Gibson.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 13: Hot and Cold
1996-02-18

Ira resumes gambling, wins a lot, hands out generous presents and then takes a $4,000 bath--no problems for him, but a couple for the Buchmans.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 14: Fertility
1996-02-25

Paul and Jamie embark on an organic fertility enhancement program with Mark's help, plus a day off at a fancy local hotel at Fran's suggestion.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 15: Everybody Hates Me
1996-03-10

Jamie tries a new look with interesting consequences, while Ira feels betrayed at the love game, let down by his quality wingman Paul, who digs himself a big hole discussing beauty.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 16: Do Me a Favor
1996-03-17

The saga of a daisy-chain of favors, triggered by the young daughter of Ira's girlfriend wanting an autographed picture of the mayor, and complicated by Paul and his fancy new camera.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 17: The Glue People
1996-03-24

After talking to Fran, Ira and Mark the Buchamns realize that their friends are in a big fight due to Fran & Ira's recent relationship so Jamie decides to take everybody to dinner to straighten things up between everybody. Lance Brockwell decides to candidate for town major, so Jamie and Fran become the campaign managers. However, Jamie is not happy due to Paul's belief that Giuliani would be a better major. When Jamie asks Paul to make a campaign commercial, it turns out to be so great that everybody gets on Brockwell's side for which Paul is not too happy for.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 18: The Sample
1996-03-31

The next step in the Buchman baby saga is trying to find out if Paul is the reason Jamie is unable to conceive. They rush to the hospital, but everything seems to be trying to stop them. First, they must wait for their neighbors to come to the elevator and then, when their car gets stolen, Paul must do his 'sample' all over again which is also interrupted by a car chase on tv which results to be Buchmans car chased by the NYPD bomb squad.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 19: The Procedure
1996-04-14

Jamie undergoes a minor diagnostic procedure and is quite smitten by her doctor so as Fran. Meanwhile, Paul's job is on the risk when the head people from his office find out that he did a commercial for Brockwell, due to crashing his contract rule. When Hollis walks in on Ira and Paul talking, Ira presents himself as Paul's agent and later saves Paul's job at the Explorer Channel.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 20: The Weed
1996-04-21

Jamie tries to plan for a weekend getaway in Pennsylvania Dutch country, but Paul is preoccupied with his current documentary project about a weed to be interested. Meanwhile, Fran and Mark decide to get on the getaway that Jamie planned. Paul gets too stressed with his job and keeps on fighting with Hollis which leads them both to a surprising reaction of their boss.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 21: The Award
1996-04-28

Nominated once again for the Silver Sprocket, a reluctant Paul is coaxed into a tuxedo by Ira and expects to attend the ceremony with Jamie at his side to counter the weasels from the Explorer Channel and find new connections for new jobs. Of course, things don't quite work out that way.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 22: The Finale (1)
1996-05-05

After a week's reflection and ignoring Ira's emphatic advice not to, Paul decides to tell Jamie about his walk around the block with a female filmmaker he met at the Silver Sprocket Awards, except Jamie blurts out first the matter that has been on her mind all day: Berkus came on to her.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 23: The Finale (2)
1996-05-19

Ira and Lisa try to engineer the Buchman reconciliation, except it proves easier to resolve the scheduling conflict between Burt and Sylvia's 45th anniversary party and Lisa's engagement party.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 24: The Finale (3)
1996-05-19

Paul and Jamie take a walk through the park to talk their differences out by themselves. They succeed, and return to their apartment, where Jamie springs a surprise on Paul.

Runtime: 23 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (1996)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Dr. Wonderful
1996-09-17

With Mark Devanow in Europe, a pregnant Jamie and Paul have to look around for a gynecologist, and Debbie tries to set them up with her girlfriend. Meanwhile, the elder Buchmans finally get to meet Debbie's ""friend.""

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: The Grant
1996-09-24

Jamie tries to stay awake, avoid coffee and continue to manage Brockwell's campaign. Meanwhile, while Paul is trying to figure out how to use a sizeable grant that has come his way, his Uncle Phil asks Paul and Ira to visit him in Brooklyn.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: Therapy
1996-10-15

Months after setting it up, Paul and Jamie decide to keep their appointment with the therapist Fran referred them to, but doing so delays Paul's shoot of his parents' reminiscences, with some interesting consequences.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: The Clip Show
1996-10-22

Having chosen the residents of Apartment 11-D as its parents, the baby in the making deals with musical interludes and parental cooing, and with lots and lots of choice moments from their years together. In other words, a clip show.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: Burt's Building
1996-10-29

Filming of Paul's documentary takes him and Burt back to their old apartment building for the day, and events conspire to make Paul late for an appointment at Joan's office to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: Jamie's Parents
1996-11-12

The Stemples arrive at Paul and Jamie's for a two-day visit, armed with a surprise, and another soon follows.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: Outbreak
1996-11-19

The Buchmans decide the time and place of their grand announcement, but the leaks start early during Thanksgiving week.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
1996-11-26

While Ira counsels against it, Paul contemplates abstinence until July. However, Jamie has other ideas and talks Paul into a trip upstate where they chance upon a dessert item with magical powers.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 9: The Gym
1996-12-17

Paul so likes playing the mystery man at a local gym that he talks Jamie out of working there, whereupon she hands over her free pass to a homeless acquaintance from the neighborhood.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: Chicken Man
1997-01-07

Jamie finally lets her coworkers and Lance know about the baby, while Ira, turning money man and producer for ""Buchman,"" actually managers to produce a narrator, at least in voice.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: The Recital
1997-01-14

A politically incorrect Jamie pays the price for commenting about Ryan's ability as a budding violinist, while a simmering Paul works up the nerve to confront their therapist about her overcharging ways.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 12: The Handyman
1997-01-21

The perils of engaging Paul and Jamie's handyman are visited upon Lisa, whose fiance is more than willing to finance Paul's over-budget documentary project.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 13: Astrology
1997-02-04

Nat's sister, an astrologer, is in town and agrees to do charts for Lisa, Ira, Paul and a very reluctant Jamie.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 14: The Penis
1997-02-11

The Buchmans promise to name their baby, if it's a boy, after Paul's ailing Uncle Phil, then find out his real name. Meanwhile, Paul is suddenly sure of the baby's sex.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 15: Citizen Buchman
1997-02-18

Paul's great-uncle Marty dies on camera as he is being interviewed for ""Buchman"" and his cryptic last words lead to a few unexpected disclosures among the Buchman clan.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 16: Her Houseboy, Coco
1997-02-25

An enforced bed-rest of two to three days for Jamie means that Paul has to attend to her every need, and also deal with lack of heat in their apartment AND a kidnapping.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 17: On the Road
1997-03-18

To escape Jamie's baby shower, Paul hits the road with Ira and Marvin in the latter's van, but his urge to tell insensitive jokes quickly leads to trouble.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 18: The Cockatoo
1997-04-01

Paul talks an unwilling Jamie into quitting her job at the mayoral campaign, but he is less successful in dealing with an exotic bird that flies into their lives.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 19: The Touching Game
1997-04-15

A very pregnant Jamie insists on helping out at David (Paul's cousin) and Jared's new coffee shop, with disastrous results. Meanwhile, Ira and Paul help a pregnant woman on a bus.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 20: The Dry Run
1997-04-29

Paul and Jamie flunk out of a birthday class that Joan has managed to get them enrolled in. Meanwhile, ""Buchman"" is being held hostage by the elder Buchmans.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 21: Guardianhood
1997-05-06

Paul and Jamie are advised by their lawyer to select guardians for the baby in case of their death. But, to their astonishment, rejections pile up. Meanwhile, Jamie is flattered by the attentions of an 18-year-old Bobby Rubenfeld.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 22: The Feud
1997-05-13

Theresa and Sylvia vie for the new crib honors, with predictable consequences. On another front, Paul wins big at poker but is paid off by Marvin in the form of specially-priced household chores.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 23: The Birth (1)
1997-05-20

As Paul's documentary gets a surprisingly good review at a film festival, Jamie thinks she is going into labor. So they rush to the hospital, only to find out it was a false alarm. This happens several more times, until it's finally for real.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 24: The Birth (2)
1997-05-20

Jamie runs into an old flame in a cab on the way to the hospital. Meanwhile, Paul gets a grand tour of the innards of Roosevelt Hospital courtesy of a film star. And, oh yeah, the baby arrives.

Runtime: 23 min
Season 6 poster
Season 6 (1997)

No overview available.

23 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Coming Home
1997-09-23

The first day back from the hospital finds Paul and Jamie still figuring out how to care for their daughter and what to name her, until help arrives in the form of Jamie's mother.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: Letters to Mabel
1997-09-30

Jamie kicks off a letter-writing spree by penning one to her infant daughter to be read on her 18th birthday. Ira and Joan join in on the fun, while Paul goes through draft after draft.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: Speed Baby
1997-10-28

Jamie stumbles upon a strange cure to Mabel's crying fits, while Paul valiently tries to catch a few winks before an important meeting with a Belgian distributor.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: Uncle Phil and the Coupons
1997-11-04

The search for a preschool for the three-week old Mabel cannot begin soon enough, but has to compete for attention with the coupon fraud trial of Uncle Phil, and an odd caper involving Jamie and Ira.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: Moody Blues
1997-11-11

Jamie resents being tagged with the dime-store psychological cliche that is postpartum depression, and almost wrecks the wedding plans of a stranger. Meanwhile, Paul directs a charity production of ""The Pirates of Penzance.""

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: The Magic Pants
1997-11-18

The Buchmans find a baby-sitter they are comfortable with, but Paul and Jamie's first evening out by themselves begins with Paul not in his pants and ends on an even more unusual note.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: Le Sex Show
1997-11-25

Paul and Jamie grapple with the pressure of having sex for the first time since Mabel's birth, but their therapist seems not much help.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: The New Friend
1997-12-09

Paul and Jamie meet a new neighbor, Sarah, a divorced mother of three who manages to teach Jamie a more casual style of parenting. Also, Paul and Jamie conspire to set up Sarah on a blind date with Ira.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 9: The Conversation
1997-12-16

Paul and Jamie try to help each other get through the excruciating process of ""Ferberizing"" the baby--they must allow the child to cry herself to sleep without comforting her. The psychological and moral implications of this are discussed and debated at length.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: Breastfeeding
1998-01-06

Jamie is reluctant to stop breast-feeding exclusively, but she knows it's time for the baby to learn to feed from the bottle, while Paul is excited to be able to feed the baby for the first time. Meanwhile, Jamie's upset to learn that her mom is dating a much younger man, a dancer from ""Lord of the Dance.""

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: Good Old Reliable Nathan
1998-01-13

When Paul gives a speech at a college, he's shocked to discover that Jamie lost her virginity to the visiting professor. It's a comedy of errors as the professor believes Paul is angry and wants to do the professor harm. Meanwhile, Ira meets a woman who flirts with him only to get better burial plots.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 12: Separate Planes
1998-01-20

It's the first plane flight with the baby and Paul and Jamie take separate planes--they're told it's not uncommon for new parents to do to avoid orphaning a baby in the event of a tragedy. Paul takes Mabel and winds up using her to lead a passenger revolt on the plane to demand less heat in the cabin. Meanwhile, Jamie's looking forward to a break from mothering, yet she ends up mothering everyone.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 13: Cheating on Sheila
1998-02-24

When Paul and Jamie feel that their current therapist, Sheila, isn't quite helping out, Paul and Jamie see another therapist, Sydney. They love Sydney enough to "break up" with Sheila--that is, until they find out that Sydney's hour of therapy is too expensive. Meanwhile, Paul grapples with how to get his father to stop suffocating Paul socially.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 14: Back to Work
1998-03-03

Jamie decides to go back to work, and everything says to go back to work. There's only one problem: she doesn't want to and tries to get herself fired. Meanwhile, Paul confronts the newspaper journalist who wrote an article filled with errors about ""Buchman.""

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 15: The 2nd Mrs. Buchman
1998-03-17

Jamie discovers that Paul was married before--if only to get an old Russian woman U.S. citizenship. Jamie's upset that she is, indeed, the second Mrs. Buchman. Meanwhile, Paul is an umpire for his father's senior-citizen baseball game, and a fight erupts between father and son over a call.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 16: The Coin of Destiny
1998-03-24

When Paul innocently flips a coin to make a decision, Paul's former producer overhears a conversation that puts Paul and Jamie in the limelight with the tabloid program ""Hard Copy."" Also, Ira finds that he's the prime suspect in a paternity case, and Paul's parents try their luck in Atlantic City.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 17: The Caper
1998-03-31

Paul's birthday party turns into an event worthy of a detective mystery when Maggie and Hal suspect Buchman party guests of stealing a prestigious painting from their adjacent apartment. Meanwhile, Marvin gets into a growling match with Murray.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 18: The Baby Video
1998-04-14

Paul, Jamie and Ira decide to make a baby video. However, Paul starring as the Sandman frightens kids and turns them off to the concept. Meanwhile, Paul's parents tell him he has a half-brother.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 19: Fire at Riff's
1998-04-28

Paul convinces Jamie to quit her job. Joan is posing for ""The 20 Most Eligible Bachelorettes in New York"" for a magazine and Debbie is jealous. Paul, Jamie, Ira, Joan and Debbie go to Riff's, where a fire breaks out while Paul is in the bathroom. Ira saves Ursula's life while Jamie, Debbie and Joan run out, leaving Paul in the bathroom. Joan asks Debbie to marry her.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 20: Mother's Day
1998-05-05

Paul tries to pick a Mother's Day present for Jamie, but Ira and Marvin have better ideas: a rocking chair and a message displayed on the Times Square video screen. Sylvia is jealous of Jamie's gifts and fakes injury to steal attention.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 21: Paul Slips in the Shower
1998-05-12

Paul's life flashes before his eyes when he takes a spill in the shower.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 22: Nat & Arley
1998-05-19

Paul and Jamie act as matchmakers for dogwalker Nat and babysitter Arley. Meanwhile, Ira tries giving up sex, and Paul makes a discovery about Jamie when they go to a sleep clinic.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 23: The Finale
1998-05-19

Paul and Jamie search for a full-time nanny, and Paul finds one in the form of Nancy Bloom, a caterer he inadvertently got fired from the production of a documentary about "The Making of Titanic."

Runtime: 23 min
Season 7 poster
Season 7 (1998)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Season Opener
1998-09-22

Paul tries Viagra and spends the day hiding the obvious effects while he searches for Jamie, who is stuck on the streets of New York wearing nothing alse then a towel.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: A Pain in the Neck
1998-09-29

When Paul gets his tonsils taken out, his pretty nurse makes Jamie jealous. Meanwhile, Mabel says her first word.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: Tragedy Plus Time
1998-10-27

Jamie's ex-boyfriend dies and leaves everything to her. Debbie has second thoughts about marrying Joan.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: There's a Puma in the Kitchen
1998-11-03

To satisfy her need to mother, Lisa adopts a cat with attitude. Jamie learns the benefits of a ""nooner.""

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: The Silent Show
1998-11-10

To help their communication problems, Dr. Sheila recommends that Paul and Jamie not talk to each other for the rest of the day.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: Weekend in L.A.
1998-11-17

Paul and Jamie go to L.A. to try to get superagent Gardner Malloy to represent him. The life of luxury makes them reluctant to go back.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: The Thanksgiving Show
1998-11-24

Jamie and Paul have a full house for Thanksgiving dinner. Meanwhile, Mabel may be allergic.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: The Buried Fight
1998-12-14

When Paul inadvertently injures Hal, he hires the nurse who attended to him after his tonsil removal. Jamie hates her, which leads to a fight. To end the argument, Hal suggests the British tradition of burying the fight.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 9: Farmer Buchman
1999-01-11

Mr. Wicker goes out of town and asks Paul and Jamie to tend his rooftop garden. Mabel loves another baby's rare toy.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: Win a Free Car
1999-01-18

To save the store, Ira plans to give away a car to the person who keeps their hand on it the longest. Since he can't afford it, he wants all of the contestants to be ringers.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: The Honeymoon
1999-01-25

Dr. Lee helps Paul and Jamie get away to a much-anticipated honeymoon while Lisa cares for Murray.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 12: Valentine's Day
1999-02-08

Paul and Jamie spend an unsettling trial night in the suburbs.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 13: Virtual Reality II
1999-02-22

The couple learns that Jamie will be in bed with Mark McGwire via virtual reality.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 14: Uncle Phil Goes Back to High School
1999-03-01

Uncle Phil goes back to high school. Lisa gets breast implants.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 15: Murray at the Dog Show
1999-04-26

Sheila declares Paul and Jamie cured. However, Murray is still traumatized by the earlier puma attack, so Paul and Jamie enter him in a dog show.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 16: Millennium Bug
1999-04-26

Jamie's dress is ruined by a dry cleaner who is unwilling to make restitution. Paul has a dream where Einstein gives him a partial solution to the millennium bug. He needs to have the dream again, so he can get the rest of the solution.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 17: Separate Beds
1999-05-03

Paul and Jamie discover the extra comfort of sleeping apart. Marvin is wrestling part time and Ira becomes his manager.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 18: Stealing Burt's Car
1999-05-10

Ira finds a note in some old pants that remind him of a date made twenty years ago but he doesn't remember with whom. Paul and Jamie steal Burt's decrepit car so they can ditch it, since he won't sell it.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 19: Paved with Good Intentions
1999-05-13

Paul accidentally runs over Jamie's mother. While she is in the hospital, her estranged husband visits.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 20: The Dirty Little Secret
1999-05-17

When Debbie compiles Buchman and Stemple family trees, she learns that Paul and Jamie are actually cousins.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 21: The Final Frontier (1)
1999-05-24

Mabel's first real film is a biography, looking back at her family's twisted history.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 22: The Final Frontier (2)
1999-05-24

Mabel's first real film is a biography, looking back at her family's twisted history.

Runtime: 23 min

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