Thomas Schlamme Filmography

Invasion Iowa [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: William Fichtner, William Shatner, Eddie Cibrian, Garz Chan, Lisa Sheridan, Ernie Grunwald, Kari Matchett, Desi Lydic, Tyler Labine, Michael J. O'Hara

Synopsis: As anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with Star Trek can tell you, the (future) birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk is Riverside, Iowa. But how many of those people could tell that there really is a Riverside, Iowa, population 928? It is this cozy little farming community that serves as the Read More

Jack & Bobby [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Christine Lahti, Matt Long, Logan Lerman, Jessica Paré, Edwin Hodge

The West Wing: We Killed Yamamoto

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Threats of terrorism, and problems with a welfare-reform bill, lead to dissension and quarrels amongst the staffers. Donna (Janel Moloney) acts as President Bartlet's representative at a riotous North Dakota state-party caucus, while Toby (Richard Schiff) tries to prevent Bartlet (Martin Sheen) Read More

The West Wing: Bartlet for America

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It is two days before Christmas, and all through the White House, no one is sleeping, not even....Well, to get down to business: Leo (John Spencer) engages the very expensive services of lawyer Jordon Kendall (Joanna Gleason) in preparation for his testimony before the committee investigating Read More

The West Wing: Manchester, Part 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Its scheduled telecast delayed because of news coverage of the 9/11 tragedy, this "official" opening episode of The West Wing's third season (the first of two parts) finds the Bartlet White House in turmoil after President Jed Bartlet (Martin Sheen) has made public the fact that he has multiple Read More

The West Wing: Manchester, Part 2

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the conclusion of The West Wing's "official" third-season opener, political consultants Bruno Gianelli (Ron Silver), Connie Tate (Connie Britton), and Doug Wegland (Evan Handler) cross swords with the presidential staff over the issue of Bartlet's impending re-election campaign. C.J. (Allison Janney Read More

Boston Public [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Jessalyn Gilsig, Chi McBride, Fyvush Finkel, Anthony Heald, Joey Slotnick

Synopsis: Produced by the prolific David E. Kelly, the Fox network comedy-drama series Boston Public is as quirky, volatile and overpopulated with colorful and eccentric characters as any other Kelly effort. Set within the walls of Boston Public High School, the series is told from the viewpoint of the Read More

The West Wing: Take This Sabbath Day

Crew: Director

Actors: Dule Hill, Kathryn Joosten, Marlee Matlin

Synopsis: President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) has 48 hours to commute the death sentence of a man convicted of a controversial murder after the Supreme Court refuses to stop the execution. While struggling with the moral, ethical, legal, and religious issues of his decision, he calls on his former priest Read More

The West Wing: What Kind of Day Has It Been?

Crew: Director

Actors: Dule Hill, Kathryn Joosten

Sports Night: What Kind of Day Has It Been

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After obsessing about a particularly expensive camera -- instead of obsessing over the infidelity of her boyfriend Gordon (Ted McGinley) -- Dana (Felicity Huffman) finally buys it and brings in her new equipment to take a picture of the Sports Night crew. Casey (Peter Krause) eagerly awaits a Read More

Sports Night: Dana and the Deep Blue Sea

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Still smarting over being rejected by Rebecca (Teri Polo) -- the beautiful woman who works in the same building as the Sports Night crew -- Dan (Josh Charles) continues his relentless quest to get the mysteriously distant woman to go on a date with him. Since Casey (Peter Krause) has refused Read More

Sports Night: Small Town

Crew: Director

Synopsis: With the same night off, Dana (Felicity Huffman) and Casey (Peter Krause) find themselves locked into a double date arrangement that both would rather not happen -- as Casey is just afraid to go on any dates at all while Dana thinks a double date with Casey is a recipe for disaster. Dana's Read More

Sports Night: Rebecca

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The rumors continue to fly about Isaac's (Robert Guillaume) possible firing, which comes to a head when Isaac announces that tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be featuring a story about his and CEO Luther Sach's ongoing feud. While the crew speculates what this will mean for Sports Night, Dan (Josh Charles Read More

The West Wing: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

Crew: Director

Actors: Lisa Edelstein, Tim Matheson, Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Synopsis: Press Secretary C.J. Cregg (Allison Janney) keeps a dispute between President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) and Vice President John Hoynes (Tim Matheson) from becoming a run-away story in the media, while Sam Seaborn continues to see a high-priced call girl (Lisa Edelstein) despite the warnings of nearly Read More

The West Wing: Pilot

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Lisa Edelstein, Allison Smith, NiCole Robinson, F. William Parker

Synopsis: The inaugural episode of The West Wing finds the staff concerned with Cuban refugees, and the fact that President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) has injured himself riding a bicycle. Rumors are swirling that Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford) will be fired due to heated remarks he made Read More

Sports Night: Special Powers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sports Night's second season begins with Dana (Felicity Huffman) fending off multiple suggestions for the show's lead story: one from Jeremy (Joshua Malina) about a Chinese swimmer attempting to cross the Taiwan Strait, one from Casey (Peter Krause) about the Jets game, and one from Natalie (Sabrina Lloyd Read More

The West Wing: The State Dinner

Crew: Director

Actors: Dule Hill, Elisabeth Moss, Kathryn Joosten, Stockard Channing, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: While a gala state dinner for the leader of Indonesia is prepared for and transpires, the president (Martin Sheen) and his staff must deal with numerous sensitive situations. Federal agents are involved in an armed standoff with a group of extremists who are holding hostages, a powerful hurricane Read More

The West Wing [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Debuting September 22, 1999, NBC's multi-award-winning The West Wing was America's first truly successful political drama series. Producer Aaron Sorkin had allegedly created the property to make fuller use of the White House interior sets built for his 1999 theatrical film, The American President. Read More

Tracey Takes On: Season 04

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: Originally telecast by HBO from January 13 to March 17, 1999, season four of Tracey Takes On... finds the multi-talented Tracey Ullman utilizing scores of comic characterizations to poke satiric jabs at 12 different topics. This year's crop of single-issue episodes include "Dating," "Drugs," Read More

Sports Night [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This highly acclaimed but shortly lived half-hour comedy focused on the staff of a cable sports news program called "Sports Night." As the anchors and producers duck and weave through their career goals, workplace romances, rough divorces, and a love/hate relationship with professional sports, the Read More

Sports Night: Thespis

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The date is November 23, which holds special significance for a number of reasons. To begin with, the date marks the five-year anniversary of Casey (Peter Krause) and Dan's (Josh Charles) working relationship -- an event that seems to hold more importance to Dan than to Casey. When Casey fails to Read More

Sports Night: Pilot

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Kicking off the 45 episode ABC television series Sports Night was this pilot episode that originally aired on September 22, 1998. After two years together as co-anchors of the popular sports wrap-up show Sports Night, Casey McCall (Peter Krause) and Dan Rydell (Josh Charles) are hitting a Read More

Sports Night: Dear Louise

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After a particularly grueling day in the studio, Dan (Josh Charles) spearheads an effort to get everyone to go to the bar. Casey (Peter Krause) initially declines the invite, but swiftly changes his mind after learning that Dana (Felicity Huffman) is coming along. Everyone but Jeremy (Joshua Malina Read More

Tracey Takes On: Season 03

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: Originally telecast by HBO from January 4 to June 4, 1998, season three of Tracey Takes On... finds the multi-talented Tracey Ullman utilizing scores of comic characterizations to poke satiric jabs at ten different topics. Among the sacred institutions skewered this season are "Marriage," Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Another List

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When Jon Stewart guest hosts and draws even bigger ratings that The Larry Sanders Show's eponymous host, Larry's paranoia starts to kick in. When the increasingly sex-obsessed host targets Winona Ryder for conquest, he is devastated upon finding Ryder and Stewart making out in the dressing room. Read More

Sports Night: Mary Pat Shelby

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sports Night hits the ratings jackpot after securing an agreement to a five-minute interview with star football player and infamous bad boy Christian Patrick (Brad Henke). While Dana (Felicity Huffman) and Isaac (Robert Guillaume) are beyond overjoyed with this development, Dan (Josh Charles) and Read More

Sports Night: The Head Coach, Dinner, and the Morning Mail

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having decided to press charges against football superstar Christian Patrick for sexual abuse during preparations for an interview, Natalie (Sabrina Lloyd) now has to endure the wrath of the troglodyte sportsman's fans that are now bombarding her with hate mail and much worse. As a result, her Read More

Sports Night: The Quality of Mercy at 29K

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Sports Night crew prepares for an extra long day, due to a special early morning broadcast of mountain climber Desmond Corey's ascent of Mt. Everest. As the staffers track the climber's progress, a water main breaks due to the frigid temperatures outside. Due to the subsequent road closures Read More

Sports Night: Intellectual Property

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Still reeling from learning that Dana (Felicity Huffman) is in the midst of a relationship, Casey (Peter Krause) begins to exhibit bizarre behavior not dissimilar from that of a lovesick schoolboy -- which includes kicking fire hydrants, hiding from Dana, and dodging large flies only he seems able Read More

Sports Night: The Hungry and the Hunted

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jeremy (Joshua Malina), Sports Night's new analyst, learns from Isaac (Robert Guillaume) and Dana (Felicity Huffman) that he has gotten "the call," which would be even more impressive to the newcomer if only someone would explain what that means. When given further details, Jeremy learns that "the Read More

Sports Night: The Apology

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Dan (Josh Charles) finds himself in hot water as an interview he did for Esquire three months ago is just now hitting the stands and implies he supports the legalization of marijuana. When network representatives swoop down and insist on an on-air apology, Dan balks at the thought -- primarily Read More

ER: Ambush

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This first episode of ER's fourth season originally aired live on September 25, 1997, with two separate telecasts for the East and West Coasts. A TV documentary crew follows Dr. Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) during a "typical" shift in the emergency room of Chicago's County General Hospital. Still Read More

Tracey Takes On: Season 02

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: Originally telecast by HBO from January 18 to May 28, 1997, season two of Tracey Takes On... finds the multi-talented Tracey Ullman utilizing scores of comic characterizations to poke satiric jabs at 15 different topics. Episode titles this season include "Sex," "Fantasy," "Mothers," "Las Vegas," Read More

Mad About You: Everybody Hates Me

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Once again, Ira's (John Pankow) heart is broken by a beautiful girl. Even so, the girl in question has a profound effect on Jamie (Helen Hunt), who elects to adopt a bold "new look." Both Jamie's cosmetic recklessness and her husband Paul's (Paul Reiser) careless tongue figure largely in the Read More

Mad About You: Hot and Cold

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ira Buchman (John Pankow), the ex-gambler cousin of Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser), falls off the wagon and returns to the racetracks and gaming tables. Before long, Ira is lavishing expensive gifts on Paul and Jamie (Helen Hunt) -- but there's a hidden price tag. Of course, none of this intrigue does Read More

Friends: The One with Russ

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) dates a guy named Russ who looks a lot like Ross (both played by David Schwimmer) -- at least he does to everyone except Rachel. Meanwhile Monica's (Courteney Cox) date with former beau Fun Bobby (Vincent Ventresca) has plenty of Bobby but no fun now that he doesn't Read More

ER: The Match Game

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having missed a bone tumor on a child's x-ray, Ross (George Clooney) is none too anxious to tell the patient's grandfather (Bill Cobbs) about the mistake -- especially since four months have elapsed and the tumor has gotten worse. Meanwhile, Chloe (Kathleen Wilhoite) sweeps back into Lewis' (Sherry Stringfield Read More

Friends: The One with the Lesbian Wedding

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas guest stars as Rachel's (Jennifer Aniston) mother, Sandra Green, who shows up at the apartment with startling news. This comes just as Ross' (David Schwimmer) ex-wife, Carol (Jane Sibbett), is about to marry her girlfriend, Susan (Jessica Hecht), in an event catered by Monica (Courteney Cox Read More

Mad About You: Dream Weaver

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Celebrating his new job with the Explorer Channel, Paul (Paul Reiser) talks wife Jamie (Helen Hunt) into joining him in an exotic wild-game feast. As a consequence, both Paul and Jamie experience bizarre and colorful dreams, causing them both to re-assess their relationship. Highlights include a Read More

Tracey Takes On: Season 01

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: Originally telecast by HBO from January 24 to April 3, 1996, the first season of Tracey Takes On... finds the multi-talented Tracey Ullman utilizing scores of comic characterizations to poke satiric jabs at ten different topics. This year's episodes include "Romance," "Charity," "Nostalgia," Read More

ER: The Secret Sharer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Though Ross (George Clooney) has been redeemed in the eyes of his superiors thanks to his heroic rescue of a 12-year-old trapped in a flooded culvert, he still gets into a violent argument with Greene (Anthony Edwards), who, it is learned, is suffering from problems above and beyond professional Read More

Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long

Crew: Director

Actors: John Goodman

Synopsis: Originally made for cable television, this biographical drama chronicles the life of Huey P. Long (John Goodman), whose corrupt political machine dominated Louisiana for years. The movie opens with a 1930's newsreel giving a report on Long's plan to a run for U.S. President while depicting him as Read More

Mad About You: How to Fall in Love

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jamie (Helen Hunt) decides to test husband Paul's (Paul Reiser) tape-recorded theories of dating do's and don'ts (Find 'Em, Meet 'Em Make 'Em Yours). Meanwhile, Paul's cousin Ira (John Pankow) doesn't seem to need any advice -- at least, not with Jamie's friend Susannah Gould (played by Anne Bobby Read More

Mad About You: Just My Dog

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Buchmans' dumb-dumb dog Murray lands a walk-on role in Paul's (Paul Reiser) commercial for Yum Yum Gum. In a twinkling, Murray has acquired an agent, an entourage, and a possible weekly series deal. Brent Spiner, late of the Star Trek franchise, guest stars as showbiz wheeler-dealer Bob -- and Read More

Mad About You: Our Fifteen Minutes

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Paul (Paul Reiser) is one of six PBS documentary filmmakers assigned to "record" their own everyday lives. Accordingly, Paul turns his camera on himself, his wife, Jamie (Helen Hunt), and their friends. The result, shot in two "real-time" takes, is one of Mad About You's very best episodes. After Read More

Martin Lawrence: You So Crazy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Martin Lawrence speaks out on racism, drugs, politics, and (most frequently) sex in this concert film that captures the comic on stage at a 1993 show in New York. Originally rated NC-17 for language by the MPAA, the harsh rating caused the film's original distributor, Miramax, to sell it to Read More

Mad About You: Cold Feet

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As a recording of Patsy Cline's "Crazy" wafts through the Rockefeller Center skating rink, Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) prepare to celebrate Valentine's Day. This segues into an extended flashback to 1991, when bachelor Paul and bachelorette Jamie decide to move in together. Alas Read More

Mad About You: Same Time Next Week

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In Chicago shooting a film, Paul (Paul Reiser) yearns for the company of his wife, Jamie (Helen Hunt), still in New York. Though Paul and Jamie arrange to spend their weekends together, these plans are habitually foiled by inclement weather -- not to mention intemperate in-laws. This is the Read More

Mad About You: Virtual Reality

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Paul (Paul Reiser) invests 5,000 dollars in cousin Ira's (John Pankow) latest get-rich-quick scheme, a revolutionary new virtual-reality system. Jamie doesn't learn about this investment until after the fact -- and her reaction is curious indeed. Watch for the "virtual" appearances of two famous Read More

Mad About You: The Late Show

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Fran (Leila Kenzle) thinks she's pregnant, and shares this information with Jamie (Helen Hunt). Ira (John Pankow) thinks he's gotten someone pregnant, and shares this information with Paul (Paul Reiser).Too bad that Jamie and Paul don't share their information with each other. And as for the Read More

Mad About You: Bedfellows

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Burt Buchman (Louis Zorich), father of our hero Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser), lands in the hospital, the probable victim of a possible heart attack. Paul's wife, Jamie (Helen Hunt), takes advantage of Burt's brief absence to forge a tighter bond with Paul's acerbic mother, Sylvia (Cynthia Harris) Read More

Mad About You: Murray's Tale

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In a case of "the dumb leading the dumber," Jamie's airhead sister, Lisa (Anne Ramsay), takes the Buchmans' doltish dog, Murray, for a walk. A few hours later, Jamie returns with an entirely different dog. Despite the necessity of a 48-hour "window" for missing pooches, the NYPD joins Paul (Paul Reiser Read More

So I Married an Axe Murderer

Crew: Director

Actors: Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia, Amanda Plummer, Brenda Fricker, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: Comic actor and former Saturday Night Live stock player Mike Myers attempted to transform himself from the goofy title character in Wayne's World (1992) (and its sequel) into a romantic leading man with this box office disappointment. Myers stars as Charlie Mackenzie, a San Francisco poet who Read More

Mad About You: Married to the Job

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) spend an unforgettable night out at Riff's, their favorite eatery. In the course of events, Paul gripes and groans about his obstreperous new producer, Lou Bonaparte (Larry Miller in his Mad About You debut), prompting Jamie to complain about her own Read More

Mad About You: Natural History

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jamie (Helen Hunt) believes that she and her husband, Paul (Paul Reiser), were fated to be together for life. Paul, on the other hand, chalks up their relationship to mere coincidence. A flashback to an earlier encounter at the American Museum of Natural History reveals the whole story, but not Read More

Mad About You: The Unplanned Child

Crew: Director

Synopsis: With Paul (Paul Reiser) busily working on his latest documentary film, Jamie (Helen Hunt) is saddled with the responsibility of trick-or-treating with the couple's seven-year-old nephew. What was supposed to be a two-hour assignment drags on and on, threatening to continue until next Halloween. Talia Balsam Read More

Mad About You: So I Married a Hair Murderer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having ditched her job (or was it the other way around?), Jamie (Helen Hunt) is bored out of her gourd. With nothing better to occupy her time, she offers to give hubby Paul (Paul Reiser) a haircut. Unfortunately, Jamie proves to be "the knife of hair styling" -- though, surprisingly, she has Read More

Crazy from the Heart

Crew: Director

Actors: Christine Lahti, Rubén Blades, William Russ, Mary Kay Place, Tommy Muniz

Synopsis: In this frothy romantic comedy set in a small Texas town, a never-married high school principal starts a scandal when she falls in love with the handsome school janitor. Unfortunately, he is Mexican and she Anglo. The local community frowns on such relationships and ultimately, their new love Read More

Rowan Atkinson Live!

Crew: Director

Actors: Rowan Atkinson

Synopsis: British comedian Rowan Atkinson, best known to American audiences for his character Mr. Bean, stars in this collection of comic sketches, performed before a live audience of enthusiastic fans. Highlights include "Someone Called Jones," "Pink Tights and Props," and "The Invisible Man"; Angus Read More

Miss Firecracker

Crew: Director

Actors: Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: A hot tamale tries to throw off a different sort of heat in this comedy of small-town manners. Carnelle Scott (Holly Hunter) is best-known in her hometown of Yazoo City, MS, for her unrepentant promiscuity. An orphan taken in by her genteel relatives, she idolizes her older cousin, Elain Rutledge Read More

Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Spalding Gray's Terrors of Pleasure is a monologue from the comedian/dramatist concerning his attempt to find a piece of land to own. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Bette Midler: Mondo Beyondo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Not a concert video as might be gathered by the title, Bette Midler: Mondo Beyondo is a zany hour-long parody of no-holds-barred cable TV shows. Bette impersonates an Italian sex bomb who hosts a raunchy variety hour. Many of the acts trotted out are blatantly phony (one, in fact, features Read More

Bette Midler: Art or Bust

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Anyone offended by the 82-minute concert tape Bette Midler: Art or Bust knew what they were in for when they saw the videocassette dust jacket: a shot of La Bette dressed in a hilariously hideous mermaid costume. The highlight of this collection of scenes from Midler's live presentations is a Read More