Created by: Paul Reiser, Danny Jacobson
Starring: Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt, Tommy Hinkley, Anne Ramsay, Leila Kenzle, Richard Kind, John Pankow, Maui the dog,
Caroline Aaron, Annie Abbott, Jerry Adler, Andre Agassi, Tyrees Allen, Monica Allison, Perry Anzilotti, Allan Arbus, David Arnott, Senait Ashenafi, John Astin, Parley Baer, Talia Balsam, Lena Banks, Adilah Barnes, Robin Bartlett, Yoshio Be, Richard Bernard, David Beron, Al Berry, David Bertucci, Susan Blommaert, Anne Bobby, Alexandra Bokyun Chun, Christie Brinkley, Garth Brooks, Sydney Brown, Ralph Bruneau, Steve Buscemi, E.J. Callahan, Jodi Carlisle, Jane Carr, Kayla Carr, Daniel Chodos, Eric Christmas, Kristen Cloke, Steven John Cohen, Greg Collins, Tony Conforti, Andrew Craig, Pat Crawford Brown, Patrick Cronin, Alexandra Currie, Lou Cutell, Gregg Daniel, J.D. Daniels, Robert Donley, Paul Dooley, Robert Dorfman, Pamela Dunlap, Bill Dunleavy, Murphy Dunne, Nancy Dussault, Lisa Edelstein, Ric Edinger, Tony Edwards, Alix Elias, David Ellzey, Andrea Elson, Art Evans, Patrick Ewing, Michael Fairman, Meagan Fay, Barbara Feldon, Andrew J. Ferchland, Carlos Ferro, John Fleck, Joe Flood, Bill Fox, Richard Frank, Ron Frazier, Penny Fuller, June Gable, Tom Gallop, Judy Geeson, Liz Georges, Marita Geraghty, Jimm Giannini, Anita Gillette, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Goldfinger, Pierre Gonneau, Randy Graff, Vince Grant, Kerri Green, Louis Guss, Dylan Haggerty, Charles Hallahan, Wendy Hammers, Larry Hankin, Jerry Hardin, Cynthia Harris, Estelle Harris, Edward Hibbert, Marva Hicks, Judith Hoag, Dominic Hoffman, Kirsten Holmquist, Cady Huffman, Kim Hunter, Rachel Hunter, Bill Ingram, Ken Jenkins, Brian Jensen, Wendle Josepher, John Karlen, Jack Kenny, Nancy Kerr, Spencer Klein, Annie Korzen, Lisa Kudrow, Darrell Kunitomi, Phil LaMarr, Adam A. Labuad Jr, Cyndi Lauper, Dana Lee, Phil Leeds, Nancy Lenehan, Jay Leno, Michael Leopard, Clea Lewis, Jerry Lewis, Lightfield Lewis, Denny Logan, Lyle Lovett, Aaron Lustig, Eric Lutes, Wendie Malick, Ralph Manza, Gregory Paul Martin, Gates McFadden, William Mesnik, Carolyn Mignini, Lynn Milgrim, Larry Miller, Debra Mooney, Danny Mora, Jeremiah Morris, John C. Moskoff, Bill Phillips Murry, Race Nelson, William Newman, Paunita Nichols, Elizabeth Norment, John O'Leary, Dick O'Neill, Ivory Ocean, Yoko Ono, April Ortiz, Jordan Oschin, Bibi Osterwald, Albert Owens, Sarah Partridge, Steve Paymer, Stephen Pearlman, Kelly Perine, George O. Petrie, Joy Philbin, Regis Philbin, Jim Piddock, Bradley Pierce, Donna Pieroni, Maria Pitillo, Jon Polito, Steven M. Porter, Mary Portser, Beata Pozniak, Shirley Prestia, Timi Prulhiere, Patrick Neil Quinn, Marty Rackham, Luis Antonio Ramos, Richard Redlin, Carl Reiner, Michael Richards, Kevin Michael Richardson, Lyndsay Riddell, Daryl Keith Roach, Richard Roat, Francesca P. Roberts, Mario Roccuzzo, Valente Rodriguez, Al Roker, Larry Romano, Rick Rossovich, Alan Ruck, Al Ruscio, Anthony Russell, Bud Sabatino, Ernie Sabella, Bill Saluga, Mark Schiff, Vito Scotti, Stan Sellers, Charles Shaughnessy, Jack Shearer, Theodore Carl Soderberg, Brent Spiner, Kathryn Spitz, Ryan Stiles, Eric Stoltz, David Strickland, Suave, Carol Ann Susi, Julia Sweeney, Karla Tamburrelli, Simon Templeman, Iqbal Theba, Cameron Thor, Kenneth Tigar, Wayne Tippit, Toshi Toda, Michael Tomlinson, Patty Toy, Erin Trimble, Thomas Tulak, Mark Tymchyshyn, William Utay, Neil Vipond, F.X. Vitolo, George D. Wallace, Patrick Warburton, Allan Wasserman, Laura Waterbury, Marjorie Wellin, Paxton Whitehead, Alan Wilder, Wayne Wilderson, Gareth Williams, Elena Wohl, Lenny Wolpe, Kevin Wommack, Bryant Woodert, Steven Wright, Ping Wu, Meg Wyllie, Keone Young, Louis Zorich
176 episodes
(TV-PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)
PLOT:
Paul and Jamie Buchman are young urban newlyweds who try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the 90's.
season 1 - Paul and Jamie's planned evening alone turns into an impromptu dinner party. A pouting Paul reluctantly agrees to give up his Saturday to shop for a sofa with Jamie. But their sofa safari hits two snags when Paul objects to Jamie's choice of a "love seat". An apartment-bound Paul and Jamie want to make the most of their Sunday in Manhattan and finally agree to a strict precise agenda. But their best-laid plans are waylaid by wailing relatives, well-intentioned friends and street-clogging parades. Paul nervously anticipates an impromptu reunion with an old college flame and nobly invites a curious Jamie to accompany him and Selby. But he can't help competing with Selby for his ex-girlfriend's attention. Paul feels like the odd man out when Jamie's exceedingly picky parents come to visit. And while her handy dad shows mechanically challenged Paul how to remove a hair clog from the plumbing, Jamie shudders every time her parents question any decision she makes. Paul and Jamie both anxiously await the results of professional projects that could further their respective careers: for him, it's a TV documentary he directed, for her, it's a ludicrous public relations proposal. Jamie persuades Paul to face an old film school rival, Howie, who blames Paul for derailing his film career and forcing him to become a Subway token-taker. After an unpleasant reunion at the subway station, Howie stomps out. A reluctant Paul finally accepts Jamie's dare to give up the rent-controlled lease to his old bachelor apartment and sever all connections to the past. But Jamie doesn't know about Paul's edgy tenant, a strange gawky man named Kramer. Paul and Jamie get on the wrong track en route to a holiday disaster when they cram aboard a train to visit her parents for their first Thanksgiving together. Their good cheer is derailed when their crowded car is also boarded by their feuding friends Fran and Mark. Paul and Jamie's first encounter with their new neighbors is a disaster. In a flashback from three years earlier, bachelor Paul accidentally bumps into an attractive stranger. Paul and Jamie hire a Russian maid to clean their cluttered apartment, but Paul's nagging guilt compels him to get in the way, and he finds himself in trouble when she misinterprets his kindness as flirtation. When Jamie lands a huge account to promote New York tourism, she eagerly hires Paul to direct the filming of a TV commercial. During a long weekend, stressed-out Paul and workaholic Jamie escape the city and try to unwind in a rustic country inn, but the clean air, beautiful scenery and quiet nights nearly drive the New Yorkers stir crazy. Paul and Jamie are overdressed and overstressed when they attend a friend's wedding, where Paul blurts out an embarrassing revelation about the blushing bride. Paul and Jamie miss out on a friend's important Valentine's Day party when they accidentally lock themselves in their bathroom. They vainly try ramming the door, dropping S.O.S. notes out the window and yelling for their lazy dog. Paul is flattered when an eccentric billionaire offers him a ton of money to produce a documentary film about his life. Assisted by Steven, his keenly observant film editor, Paul traipses after his loony subject and amasses miles of film. Paul is mortified when his star struck father calls out to talk show host Regis Philbin across a crowded theater, but his embarrassment mushrooms when an amused Regis asks the chatty old man to appear on his talk show. A protective Jamie shares her doubts with Paul when her neurotic sister Lisa gleefully decides to move in with her too-perfect English boyfriend after a week of courtship. Paul nearly drools with excitement when Jamie invites him to dinner with her client Diane Caldwell, a sexy TV spy/heroine from the 1960s who inspired his adolescent fantasies. Paul becomes insanely jealous when Jamie hires her handsome ex-boyfriend to paint their apartment. Paul's suspicions are further aroused when he rushes home and hears telltale voices from his bedroom. Paul makes intricate plans to celebrate his and Jamie's first wedding anniversary, but the event hits the skids when Jamie worries about inviting their feuding friends Mark and Fran, who have recently separated.
season 2 - Paul and Jamie are stupefied when her luckless sister Lisa takes their dim-witted dog, Murray, out for a walk and returns with another hound on the leash. Because of Paul's heavy workload, he and Jamie look forward to a long-postponed romantic night alone in their bedroom, but their little passion play is continually interrupted by phone calls. After his father is hospitalized with mild chest pains, Paul and Jamie offer to spend the night at home with Paul's disagreeable mother. Paul encourages an overworked Jamie to quit her job. After quitting her job, Jamie struggles with her newfound leisure time. Paul and Jamie care for a nephew on Halloween. After a spat with Jamie, Paul leaves in a huff and eventually winds up in the American Museum of Natural History, where he bumps into Jamie and Lisa. Paul's birthday surprise for Jamie goes awry. A mysterious trip to Atlantic City yields Ira's long-held secret. Paul finishes his film as Jamie tries to plot her own future. Paul mediates a spat between Jamie and her woeful and unemployed sister Lisa, after Lisa's psychologist publishes a case-study book in which her patient holds Jamie partially responsible for her sad-sack life. Over the weekend, Paul and Jamie are stranded without cash or credit when their charge cards are confiscated after a computer glitch mistakenly confuses him with another Paul Buchman, recently deceased. Paul's absence makes Jamie's heart grow fonder when he is hired to shoot a documentary in Chicago for six weeks. He flies home on the weekends for passionate reunions, but one intimate weekend is jeopardized when Paul's abrasive mother comes to visit. Ex-lovers Fran and Ira, desperate to keep Fran's suspected pregnancy under wraps, each secretly tell Paul and Jamie a different story, resulting in a cascade of mistaken identities, a paint-splattered room, and an uncooperative pregnancy test. Christie Brinkley appears as herself as Paul's image of the perfect woman when he dons a computerized helmet and set of gloves. Unfortunately, he makes the mistake of telling Jamie. In a Valentine's Day flashback, Paul and Jamie are swept back three years when bachelor Paul secretly scripts out how he will propose marriage to Jamie at the ice-skating rink in Rockefeller Center. Jamie teaches her Valentine, Paul that their love for each other can survive even the worst case of bad karma. While cleaning their apartment, Paul and Jamie accidentally switch a self-made videotape of themselves cavorting in their boudoir with a rental cassette of "RoboCop 3". While making household repairs, Paul and Jamie accidentally discover a stash of amorous letters that had been hidden away, and discover a love affair between a couple much like themselves. Paul and Jamie find themselves in the middle of an argument between their mothers. A frantic Paul trades bon mots with a finicky French teacher while he, Fran, Ira and Lisa scramble to covertly enroll Jamie in her college courses before she discovers that Paul forgot to mail her registration forms. As Jamie arranges a blind date for Fran, Mark suddenly returns. Jamie and Paul are locked out of their apartment on the eve of her big exam. Paul loses his wedding ring on the eve of his second anniversary. Paul and Jamie's anniversary prompts an unexpected discussion about children.
season 3 - Paul and Jamie try to escape a heat wave. Some irritating neighbors have eyes for Paul and Jamie's apartment. Jamie agrees to dispose of her favorite uncle's remains. Mr. Wicker's crush on a tenant results in him staying with Paul and Jamie. Paul is upset over not being given his father's store. Trouble arises when Jamie decides to steal a cable TV hookup without telling Paul. Paul and Jamie try being less of a couple at a party, only to have their experiment end is disaster. Paul and Jamie host a big family Thanksgiving dinner. A miscommunication sets Paul and Jamie's sexual relationship on a downhill slide. Paul and Jamie must struggle with the city when they join Ira and his new date for a movie. PBS asks the Buchmans to film themselves in their apartment for 15 minutes with no cuts for a "slice of life" documentary. Paul's dating video causes him and Jamie to reexamine how they met. Paul and Jamie's wedding preparations are revisited. Complications with the wedding preparations overwhelm Paul and Jamie. A TV commercial makes Murray a celebrity. Paul wants a crank TV legend to narrate his new documentary film. When Jamie is out of town, Paul mistakenly gives away their bed to a charity thrift store. A mix up with their purses causes Jamie and Lisa to change places for a day. Paul and Jamie get carried away when they masquerade as his parents in order to take an all expenses paid vacation. Paul is nervous when Ira's ex-wife suddenly returns. Anxiety over his birthday causes Paul to recall some notable past disasters. Paul is shooting a new movie about Pete, the last milkman in New York and neither he or Jamie can't seem to find time in their busy schedules, but they manage to plan on being together for pizza on Tuesday night. On their third wedding anniversary, Paul and Jamie go out with their friends to a strangely new ritzy nightclub called The Twilight Room. But, afterward, Paul and Jamie's night out turns into "The Twilight Zone" when they slide in time into a parallel world where all evidence that they have ever met disappears, including their memories of each other.
season 4 -
Paul realizes he slept through the best sex Jamie says she ever had. Paul wants to buy a parking space, even though he and Jamie don't own a car. A magazine's quiz prompts Paul and Jamie to look back on their life together. Jamie sets out to win over her mother-in-law. Jamie is offered a job by Paul's former rival. Paul agrees to make a film with Yoko Ono.
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