MAD ABOUT YOU (1992 - 2019)

 




















Created by: Paul Reiser, Danny Jacobson
Starring: Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt, Tommy Hinkley, Anne Ramsay, Leila Kenzle, Richard Kind, John Pankow, Maui the dog, 

Aaron Aames, Caroline Aaron, Annie Abbott, Jerry Adler, Andre Agassi, Joe Alfasa, Tyrees Allen, Monica Allison, Bob Amaral, Perry Anzilotti, Allan Arbus, David Arnott, Senait Ashenafi, Randl Ask, Edward Asner, John Astin, Scott Atkinson, Hank Azaria, Kevin Bacon, Parley Baer, Talia Balsam, Lena Banks, Alyssa Baric, Justin Baric, Adilah Barnes, Robin Bartlett, Elya Baskin, David Basulto, Yoshio Be, Gerry Bednob, Roger Behr, Richard Bernard, David Beron, Al Berry, David Bertucci, Beau Billingslea, Frank Birney, Meredith Bishop, Susan Blommaert, Anne Bobby, Vasili Bogazianos, Alexandra Bokyun Chun, Chris Bonno, Danny Breen, Christie Brinkley, Patrick Bristow, Garth Brooks, Mel Brooks, Robert Curtis Brown, Sydney Brown, Ralph Bruneau, Sergey Brusilovsky, Carol Burnett, Fritzi Burr, Steve Buscemi, Sid Caesar, Jeff Cahill, E.J. Callahan, Dean Cameron, John Capodice, Jodi Carlisle, Jane Carr, Kayla Carr, Alan Charof, Daniel Chodos, Eric Christmas, Dick Clark, Christian Clemenson, Kristen Cloke, Otto Coelho, Susie Coelho, Steven John Cohen, Kari Coleman, Greg Collins, Tony Conforti, John David Conti, Kevin Contreras, Allan Corduner, Joe Costa, Robert Costanzo, Andrew Craig, Pat Crawford Brown, Patrick Cronin, Don Cummings, Alexandra Currie, Lou Cutell, Paul D'Ambrosio, Gregg Daniel, J.D. Daniels, Joanna Daniels, Christopher Darga, Ron Darian, Danny Dayton, Frederick De Cordova, Alfonso De Rose, Robert Donley, Paul Dooley, Robert Dorfman, David Dunard, Pamela Dunlap, Bill Dunleavy, Murphy Dunne, Nancy Dussault, Lisa Edelstein, Ric Edinger, Tony Edwards, Judyann Elder, Alix Elias, David Ellzey, Andrea Elson, Jack Esformes, Art Evans, Patrick Ewing, Michael Fairman, Zaid Farid, Meagan Fay, Roy Fegan, Barbara Feldon, Andrew J. Ferchland, Carlos Ferro, Nancy Fish, John Fleck, Joe Flood, Bill Fox, Richard Frank, Ron Frazier, John H. Freeland Jr, David Fresco, Cynthia Frost, Penny Fuller, June Gable, Mo Gaffney, Tom Gallop, Robert Garcia, Jeff Garlin, Brad Garrett, Willie Garson, Judy Geeson, John Gegenhuber, Liz Georges, Marita Geraghty, Estelle Getty, Jimm Giannini, Henry Gibson, Steven Gilborn, Anita Gillette, Rudy Giuliani, Dale Godboldo, Andrew Gold, Michael Goldfinger, Rita Gomez, Pierre Gonneau, Gilbert Gottfried, Karen Gracey, Randy Graff, Leon W. Grant, Vince Grant, Kerri Green, Seth Green, Shecky Greene, Penny Griego, Harry Groener, Gary Grossman, Louis Guss, Joyce Guy, Deborah Guyer Greene, Dylan Haggerty, Charles Hallahan, Ann Hamilton, Wendy Hammers, Larry Hankin, Jerry Hardin, Cynthia Harris, Estelle Harris, Kellen Hathaway, Edward Hibbert, Marva Hicks, Judith Hoag, Bernard Hocke, Tom Hodges, Dominic Hoffman, Victoria Hoffman, Kirsten Holmquist, Sherman Howard, Cady Huffman, Kim Hunter, Rachel Hunter, Bill Ingram, Tino Insana, Scott Jaeck, Nick Jameson, Ken Jenkins, Brian Jensen, Anne-Marie Johnson, Arte Johnson, Wendle Josepher, Jann Karam, John Karlen, Kevin Keckeisen, Jack Kenny, Nancy Kerr, Frederika Kesten, Bruno Kirby, Jill C. Klein, Spencer Klein, David Koechner, Tracy Kolis, Annie Korzen, Eric Allan Kramer, Lisa Kudrow, Darrell Kunitomi, Phil LaMarr, Elizabeth LaRou, Adam A. Labuad Jr, Zane Lasky, Jim Lau, Cyndi Lauper, Dana Lee, Greg Lee, Nikki Lee, Phil Leeds, Nancy Lenehan, Jay Leno, Michael Leopard, Susan Leslie, Len Lesser, James Lesure, Floyd Levine, Clea Lewis, Jerry Lewis, Lightfield Lewis, Sam Lloyd, Denny Logan, Greg Longstreet, Lyle Lovett, Aaron Lustig, Eric Lutes, Phyllis Lyons, Norma Maldonado, Wendie Malick, Lawrence A. Mandley, Darin Mangan, Anthony Mangano, Peggy Mannix, Ralph Manza, Alison Martin, Gregory Paul Martin, James Martin Jr, Karen Maruyama, Tohoru Masamune, Pierrino Mascarino, Melanie Mayron, John C. McDonnell, Gates McFadden, Brian McNamara, William Mesnik, Carolyn Mignini, Lynn Milgrim, Larry Miller, Sofia Milos, Armando Molina, Debra Mooney, Michael Moore, Danny Mora, Jeanne Mori, Beans Morocco, Jeremiah Morris, Billy Morrissette, John C. Moskoff, Kenneth Moskow, Megan Mullally, Harry S. Murphy, Bill Phillips Murry, Race Nelson, William Newman, Lance E. Nichols, Paunita Nichols, Elizabeth Norment, Mark Nutter, Carroll O'Connor, John F. O'Donohue, John O'Hurley, John O'Leary, Dick O'Neill, Elea Oberon, Ivory Ocean, Yoko Ono, Leland Orser, April Ortiz, Jordan Oschin,  Bibi Osterwald, Albert Owens, Gary Owens, Paul Parducci, Sarah Partridge, Dorothy Patterson, Steve Paymer, Stephen Pearlman, Kelly Perine, Alessandra Petlin, George O. Petrie, Joy Philbin, Regis Philbin, Jim Piddock, Bradley Pierce, Donna Pieroni, Maria Pitillo, Suzie Plakson, Jon Polito, Vic Polizos, Linda Porter, Steven M. Porter, Richard Portnow, Mary Portser, Beata Pozniak, Shirley Prestia, Timi Prulhiere, Patrick Neil Quinn, Marty Rackham, Luis Antonio Ramos, Richard Redlin, Markus Redmond, Carl Reiner, Michael Richards, Kevin Michael Richardson, Lyndsay Riddell, Mailon Rivera, Daryl Keith Roach, Richard Roat, Francesca P. Roberts, Alex Rocco, Mario Roccuzzo, Valente Rodriguez, Harper Roisman, Al Roker, Larry Romano, Carol Rosenthal, Franc Ross, Rick Rossovich, Alan Ruck, Al Ruscio, Anthony Russell, Bud Sabatino, Ernie Sabella, Jean St. James, Bill Saluga, Fred Sanders, Mary Anne Schafer, Mark Schiff, Vito Scotti, Stan Sellers, Charles Shaughnessy, Jack Shearer, Bridget Sienna, Marcus Smythe, Theodore Carl Soderberg, Ted Sorel, Brent Spiner, Kathryn Spitz, Florence Stanley, Golde Starger, David Steinberg, Ryan Stiles, Fred Stoller, Eric Stoltz, Julian Stone, Amzie Strickland, David Strickland, Suave, Carol Ann Susi, Julia Sweeney, Karla Tamburrelli, Tiffany Taubman, Simon Templeman, Deborah Theaker, Iqbal Theba, Wesley Thompson, Cameron Thor, Kenneth Tigar, Wayne Tippit, Toshi Toda, John Toles-Bey, Michael Tomlinson, Nick Toth, Patty Toy, Wayne Trask, Stacey Travis, Erin Trimble, Thomas Tulak, Mark Tymchyshyn, Fabiana Udenio, William Utay, David Vegh, Chick Vennera, Neil Vipond, F.X. Vitolo, Ann Walker, Arnetia Walker, Billye Ree Wallace, George D. Wallace, Lisa Waltz, Patrick Warburton, Marsha Warfield, Allan Wasserman, Gedde Watanabe, Laura Waterbury, John Webber, Adam Weisman, Marjorie Wellin, Bradley White, Peter White, Paxton Whitehead, Alan Wilder, Wayne Wilderson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Gareth Williams, Bruce Willis, Elena Wohl, Lenny Wolpe, Kevin Wommack, Bryant Woodert, Jo Anne Worley, Steven Wright, Ping Wu, Meg Wyllie, Michael Yama, Keone Young, Louis Zorich, Harley Zumbrum, Jose Zuniga

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. A busy Paul and Jamie consider hiring some household help. Paul and Jamie make a surprise discovery about a pair of new friends. Conflicting schedules conspire to keep Paul and Jamie apart on New Year's Eve. Trying to conceive a baby has the Buchmans frustrated in more ways than they imagined. When Jamie is stricken with a bad back, Paul steps in to help. Paul and Jamie each have strange dreams with sexual undertones and bizarre happenings. They try to interpret them, but even the interpretations are bizarre. As the Buchmans struggle to keep their sex life on track, Paul discovers Ira has started gambling again. After four months of trying, Jamie convinces Paul to take drastic steps to improve their fertility. Ira's heart is broken by a girlfriend whose beauty inspires Jamie to make a drastic change. An innocent photograph leads to Jamie inadvertently blackmailing her boss. Paul's reluctant work on behalf of Jamie's boss exposes the Buchman's political differences. Paul and Jamie take a sample of Paul's sperm to the hospital for testing, to see if he is the cause of their not being pregnant yet. They have less than an hour to get to the hospital, but everything seems to delay them. While Jamie is in the hospital to determine if she can get pregnant, Paul's job is on the line when Ira poses as his agent. Paul's obsession with perfection jeopardizes his job. Jamie's boss is caught accepting money from a mobster. After losing his job, Paul is nominated for a prestigious filmmaking award. Jamie plans a bridal shower for Lisa, Paul plans an anniversary party for his parents, and Fran gets back with Mark and quits her job. Jamie tells Paul she kissed her co-worker. Paul walks out. Paul and Jamie are separated, each try to get over the hurt. They interact, plan the parties, and finally talk about the problem and their relationship. With their marriage on the verge of collapse, Paul prepares to leave Jamie.

season 5 - 

While keeping their pregnancy under wraps, Paul and Jamie juggle recommendations for a gynecologist. As Jamie tries to give up coffee during her pregnancy, Paul's Uncle Phil provides inspiration for his next film. A long-forgotten therapy appointment creates problems for Paul and Jamie. Paul and Jamie talk to their unborn child, playing music, explaining life and telling things about themselves. Paul, Ira and Burt go to Burt's old building for part of the Buchman documentary. Paul runs late to hear the baby's heartbeat at Jamie's pregnancy checkup appointment. After thirty-seven years of marriage, Jamie's parents split up on the eve of a cross country trip together. Paul and Jamie decide to announce they are pregnant on Thanksgiving. Jamie tells a stranger on Monday. Ira figures it out on Tuesday who tells the hair dresser, who tells Lisa, who tells Sanford, and it continues. Paul and Jamie discover a country store's homemade fudge has aphrodisiac qualities. Jamie gets a free pass to the gym where Paul works out but he does not want her there. He does not want Ira there. Paul likes to be a man of mystery, and he avoids saying anything significant to the gym members. After announcing her pregnancy, Jamie must make some adjustments to her fast-paced work life. Paul finds out they are paying more for counseling than Fran paid for counseling from the same counselor. Paul confronts Sheila about the difference. Jamie insults Fran and Ryan over Ryan's violin playing. Lisa's fiance, Sanford, offers to help finance Paul's documentary when he runs into unexpected delays and costs. Paul does not want to share his handyman's name with Lisa and Sanford. After promising a dying uncle that they will name their child after him, Paul debates telling Jamie that he's learned the baby's sex. The last words of Paul's late uncle cause dissent among the Buchmans. When Jamie is confined to bed, it's up to Paul to care for her. An astrologer's reading causes Paul and Jamie distress. Preparations for Jamie's baby shower drive Paul to arrange a weekend of male bonding. Paul wants Jamie to quit her job, but she wants to finish the political campaign results. Jamie hears co-workers talking secretly and is worried about a conspiracy plot. A cockatoo flies into the apartment. A very pregnant Jamie has difficulty moving in stores due to her pregnancy weight. she helps at Paul's cousin's new coffee shop and ends up breaking a lot of items that it hurts the business. Paul and Jamie attend a birthing class and are the only ones not paying attention or doing the dry run to the hospital. Sylvia will not sign a release for the Buchman documentary because Jamie stole a spoon from her. Paul and Jamie must struggle to find a guardian for their child. Paul and Jamie find their mothers feuding over the cribs they each bought for the baby. Paul hurdles obstacles to get to the hospital when Jamie begins labor. The big moment arrives for Jamie, but Paul's work and travels threaten to make him late for the birth. Jamie's parents add to the fuss.

season 6 - 
After bringing their new baby home, Jamie and Paul worry that they aren't up to the task of being parents. As Jamie's letters to their new daughter Mabel put pressure on Paul, Ira discovers that Joan secretly harbors romantic feelings for him. Their first difficult night with Mabel sends a panicky Jamie and Paul to see their pediatrician. As Uncle Phil's aggressive coupon clipping gets the entire Buchman clan in trouble with the law, Jamie decides to get a tattoo.

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