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Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Ben Shenkman
Synopsis: Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt makes her feature directorial debut with this adaptation of Elinor Lipman's best-selling novel about a Philadelphia schoolteacher (Hunt) whose long-lost birth mother (Bette Midler) reappears at the very moment her daughter is careening into a midlife Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Kate Bosworth, Topher Grace, Josh Duhamel, Nathan Lane, Sean Hayes
Synopsis: Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde) directs the romantic comedy Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! from a screenplay by TV scriptwriter Victor Levin. Famous Hollywood actor Tad Hamilton (soap opera star Josh Duhamel making his film debut) is trying to promote his new movie. His manager (Sean Hayes) and his Read More
Crew: Teleplay By
Actors: Louis Zorich, Cynthia Harris
Synopsis: Part one of Mad About You's series finale is set approximately 22 years in the future. Mabel Buchman (Janeane Garafolo), grown-up daughter of Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt), follows in her dad's footsteps by producing a documentary film about her family. The starting point is the Read More
Crew: Director, Teleplay By
Actors: Louis Zorich
Synopsis: Rhea Perlman and Richard Benjamin guest star as a suburban couple from whom Jamie (Helen Hunt) purchases a house. Jamie has done this as a Valentine gift for husband, Paul (Paul Reiser) -- but Paul is not entirely grateful. The whole megilla ends in a court trial and an enforced stay in the Land Read More
Crew: Director
Synopsis: This final episode of Mad About You is set approximately 22 years in the future. Mabel Buchman (Janeane Garafolo), grown-up daughter of Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt), follows in her dad's footsteps by producing a documentary film about her family. Several former series regulars Read More
Synopsis: Paul (Paul Reiser) takes a tumble in the shower, and in that split second his whole life flashes before his eyes. Highlights (or lowlights) include Paul's first kiss, and his mother Sylvia's (Cynthia Harris) outraged reaction; the sage advice of Paul's dad, Burt (Louis Zorich), specifically "you Read More
Synopsis: Nobody is allowed to leave the premises during the birthday party of Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser). For one thing, Paul's neighbors Maggie and Hal Conway (Judy Geeson, Paxton Whitehead) suspect that one of the guests has absconded with a valuable painting. And besides, who would want to leave during Read More
Synopsis: Ellen DeGeneres guest stars as Nancy Bloom, a former caterer whom Paul (Paul Reiser) had indirectly fired from the set of his "Making of Titanic" documentary. Through a twist of fate, Nancy is now the Buchmans' nanny -- but is she responsible for the brief "misplacement" of baby Mabel? Titanic Read More
Synopsis: This appropriately titled episode served as the opener of Mad About You's seventh and final season. The manhood of Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser) becomes embarrassingly evident when he experiments with Viagra. Meanwhile, Paul's wife, Jamie (Helen Hunt), stumbles out of a health club and into the Read More
Crew: Executive Producer
Actors: Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt, John Pankow, Louis Zorich, Cynthia Harris
Synopsis: The sixth season of Mad About You was marked by flagging ratings and ever-increasing audience dissatisfaction over the self-indulgences perpetrated by the series' creators and stars, which reached a summit (or nadir) with the single-take, "real-time" episode, "The Conversation." Nonetheless, NBC Read More
Synopsis: While being interviewed on film by Paul (Paul Reiser), great-uncle Marty (Shecky Green) ruins the shot by dropping dead. Marty's garbled final words ("Hummus?" "Cow Moos?" "Hey Miss?") touches off yet another crisis in the Buchman family. Amidst a veritable smorgasbord of famous guest stars Read More
Synopsis: Mel Brooks makes another unbearably funny appearance as Uncle Phil, here about to face trial for coupon fraud. Meanwhile, three-week-old Mabel is placed on a long waiting list for preschool, and Jamie (Helen Hunt) and Ira (John Pankow) have a strange adventure. Listen carefully for the Grand Read More
Synopsis: Just in case of emergency, Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) decide to line up a guardian for their unborn baby. Alas, no one seems to want the job -- not even the people whom Paul and Jamie don't want for the job. Meanwhile, 18-year-old Bobby Rubenfield (Seth Green) develops a Read More
Actors: Robin Bartlett
Synopsis: Season six of Mad About You picks up where season five left off, as Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) bring their new baby daughter home from the hospital. The next step: What to name the kid? Surprisingly, Jamie's scatterbrained mother, Theresa (Carol Burnett), solves this knotty Read More
Synopsis: With Jamie (Helen Hunt) incapacitated, Paul (Paul Reiser) must wait on her hand and foot. His already difficult job is complicated by the lack of heat in the Buchmans' apartment -- and by an unscheduled kidnapping. At one point, it appears as though this episode should have been titled "Her Read More
Synopsis: This is the famous (or, to some non-fans of Mad About You, infamous) "real-time" episode, shot in a single take without commercial interruption. Kept awake by baby Mabel's incessant crying, Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) have run out of strategies to quiet down the kid. Finally Read More
Synopsis: Now that everyone knows that Jamie (Helen Hunt) is pregnant, Paul (Paul Reiser) comes up with the curious theory that he'd better abstain from sex until the child's birth. To foil this scheme, Jamie talks Paul into accompanying her on a romantic retreat in upstate New York. Before long, the Read More
Synopsis: While filming "Buchman," the documentary about his family, Paul (Paul Reiser) pays a visit to his childhood neighborhood with dad Burt (Louis Zorich). As both Buchmans recall events which transpired in their old apartment building, Paul's pregnant wife, Jamie (Helen Hunt), sits fuming in the Read More
Synopsis: In the final installment of Mad About You's three-part fourth season finale, Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) have ruefully decided to separate. As Paul's cousin Ira (John Pankow) and Jamie's sister Lisa (Anne Ramsay) to bring them back together, Lisa finds herself stuck on the Read More
Synopsis: Paul (Paul Reiser) works out at a local gym where no one knows who he really is. Jamie (Helen Hunt) ultimately gets a free ten-day pass to the selfsame gym, and promptly hands it over to a homeless individual. Need we add that "mystery man" Paul is somewhat put out by this turn of events? Bruno Kirby Read More
Actors: Cynthia Harris
Synopsis: Season five of Mad About You begins with Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) happily reconciled, thanks to Jamie's impending pregnancy. With their regular gynecologist, Mark, in Europe, the Buchmans need a new doctor to handle the preliminaries. Paul's gay sister, Debbie (Robin Bartlett Read More
Actors: Mel Brooks
Synopsis: Though told to give up coffee during her pregnancy, Jamie (Helen Hunt) must somehow stay awake while burning the midnight oil on Lance Brockwell's political campaign. Meanwhile, Paul tries to decide how best to spend a large financial grant. Coming to Paul's rescue (if not Jamie's) is his Read More
Crew: Supervising Producer
Actors: Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt, Anne Ramsay, Leila Kenzle, John Pankow
Synopsis: Mad About You launched its fifth season with yet another time slot change, moving to Tuesday evenings opposite ABC's top-rated Roseanne, CBS's new The Promised Land, FOX's package of first-run films, and Moesha from the upstart UPN. Picking up where season four left off, the fifth season began Read More
Synopsis: Can it be that Paul (Paul Reiser) is the reason that Jamie (Helen Hunt) can't get pregnant? To find out once and for all, Paul donates a sperm sample in the obligatory jar. A simple act, to be sure, but one that has far-from-simple consequences involving a stolen car, an unscheduled visit from the Read More
Synopsis: In the first chapter of Mad About You's three-part fourth season finale, Paul (Paul Reiser) decides to confess to wife Jamie (Helen Hunt) that he has had a rendezvous -- literally, since the occurrence took him around the block -- with an attractive female filmmaker. Almost simultaneously, Jamie Read More
Synopsis: In the second installment of Mad About You's three-part fourth season finale, Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) have ruefully decided to separate. It is up to Paul's cousin Ira (John Pankow) and Jamie's sister Lisa (Anne Ramsay) to bring them back together. Originally broadcast as a Read More
Synopsis: While reluctantly working on the political campaign of his wife's boss, Brockwell (Alan Ruck), Paul (Paul Reiser) reveals that he and Jamie (Helen Hunt) are on opposite sides of the ideological fence. What follows is a maelstrom of misunderstandings (not to mention clever camera effects) involving Read More
Synopsis: Determined to have a baby, Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) carefully arrange a romantic afternoon at precisely the right day of the month. Alas, the couple's best-laid plans repeatedly go awry thanks to the interruptions of Paul's family. On top of that, Paul's sister Debbie (Robin Bartlett Read More
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
Synopsis: This is the celebrated "cartoon" episode, with animation provided by Sony Imageworks. Jamie Buchman (Helen Hunt) is nonplussed when she learns that her former boyfriend Alan (Eric Stoltz) has been hired as a graphics artist for her new ad campaign. The result is a special edition of Alan's fabled Read More
Synopsis: In her never-ending efforts to "bond" with her contentious mother-in-law, Sylvia Buchman (Cynthia Harris), Jamie (Helen Hunt) embarks upon yet another exotic cooking experiment. This time, Jamie is convinced that she will succeed -- after all, how can one go wrong with Martha Stewart as one's Read More
Synopsis: After enjoying a year's worth of high ratings by virtue of its "Must See TV" Thursday night time slot, Mad About You entered its fourth season in a new prime-time berth on Sunday evening, opposite CBS's Cybil and ABC's Lois and Clark. The move neither helped nor hurt the series, which resurfaced Read More
Actors: Judy Geeson
Synopsis: After a fight with his wife over the proverbial "other woman," building super Mr. Wicker (Jerry Adler) moves in with Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt). An additional crisis arises when it develops that Jamie needs glasses -- or would contact lenses go better with her "trapezoidal Read More
Synopsis: The Buchmans (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) haven't been getting much boudoir action of late ("Arouse me!"), and a silly misunderstanding doesn't help matters. Elsewhere, Jamie Buchman's sister Lisa (Helen Hunt) wins a couple of free dinners, Paul Buchman's cousin Ira (John Pankow) takes on a new Read More
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