Episode 1 - [One Flew Over The Lawyer's Desk] |
Details : Questioning his place in the universe Greg begins a journey of self-discovery by exploring his reasons for becoming a lawyer. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Yeardley Smith | Kevin Nealon | Director : Amanda Bearse | Writer : Bill Prady | Writer : Don Foster | |
Air Date : Sep. 21, 1999 |
Episode 2 - [Welcome To Hotel Calamari] |
Details : Dharma tracks the missing Greg down at a seedy motel. (I missed this episode and it has not yet been rerun.) |
Guest Cast and Crew : Clyde Kusatsu | Director : Amanda Bearse | Writer : Don Foster | |
Air Date : Sep. 28, 1999 |
Episode 3 - [Dharma's Inferno] |
Details : When the financial realities of Greg's unemployment sink in Dharma takes on a slew of new jobs and makes a deal with the devil to make ends meet: she accepts covert checks from Kitty in exchange for expanded mother daughter-in-law time spent together. Only when Edward takes Greg to a high-power suits party while Kitty takes her to the opera to see Faust does Dharma come to her senses and rush back just in time to prevent Greg from accepting a corporate job. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Vincent Schiavelli | Angelo Pagan | Director : Amanda Bearse | Writer : Rachel Sweet | |
Air Date : Oct. 05, 1999 |
Episode 4 - [Play Lady Play] |
Details : Dharma agrees to play drums for a friend's teenage garage band. Meanwhile she helps Greg through his crisis by purposefully invoking arguments with him. |
Guest Cast and Crew : T Bone Burnett | Bob Dylan | Marissa Jaret Winokur | Jane Lynch | Director : Robert Berlinger | Writer : Eddie Gorodetsky | Director : Chuck Lorre | |
Air Date : Oct. 12, 1999 |
Episode 5 - [I Did It For You Kitty] |
Details : Faced with Kitty's midlife crisis Dharma decides to help her fulfill her lifelong dream of winning a beauty pageant. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Gary Collins | Dan Desmond | Director : Robert Berlinger | Director : Chuck Lorre | |
Air Date : Oct. 19, 1999 |
Episode 6 - [The Very Grateful Dead] |
Details : Dharma becomes convinced that the ghost of a recently deceased neighbor wants to conduct some unfinished business -- and the spirit soon moves Greg in a rather carnal way. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Amanda Bearse | |
Air Date : Oct. 26, 1999 |
Episode 7 - [Fairway To Heaven] |
Details : Greg decides his life's fulfillment lies on the professional golf course but Dharma isn't so sure if she should let him play through given that Greg's journey of self-discovery may mean relocating to Scotland. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Ken Levine | Writer : Rachel Sweet | |
Air Date : Nov. 02, 1999 |
Episode 8 - [Tie-Dying The Knot] |
Details : Abby and Larry decide to make it official after thirty years of unwedded bliss provided they can get Kenny Loggins to sing at the ceremony. Meanwhile Greg comes full circle on his search for tranquility a part-time resident of the local park comes to him with a legal problem. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Tommy Chong | Kenny Loggins | Writer : Don Foster | Writer : Eddie Gorodetsky | Director : Chuck Lorre | |
Air Date : Nov. 09, 1999 |
Episode 9 - [Law And Disorder] |
Details : Constant interference makes Greg wish that his new law practice were a little more private especially when Dharma keeps solving his client's problems without recourse to the law; Dharma reaches out to her landlady on behalf of the other tenants; Larry pursues an increasingly vindictive feud against his neighbor—who turns out to be his uncle. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Christopher Darga | Patrick Thomas O'Brien | Director : Amanda Bearse | Writer : Chuck Lorre | |
Air Date : Nov. 16, 1999 |
Episode 10 - [Thanksgiving Until It Hurts] |
Details : In an attempt to make Thanksgiving more enjoyable than last year's debacle (which we see in flashbacks) Dharma and Greg devise a plan to entirely avoid their families. When it becomes clear how much this has hurt everyone the pair wind up more stuffed than any turkey after eating four Thanksgiving dinners: their own one cooked (barely) by Kitty another with Abby and Larry and a fourth with Celia's family -- who have a fight that top last year's. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Julia Vera | Victor Campos | Director : Amanda Bearse | |
Air Date : Nov. 23, 1999 |
Episode 11 - [Lawyers Beer And Money] |
Details : While his fledgling independent law practice struggles Greg feels emasculated when Dharma hits the jackpot in a TV commercial whose producers caught her in a late-night promo for Greg's business. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Robert Mailhouse | Writer : Eddie Gorodetsky | Director : Asaad Kelada | |
Air Date : Nov. 30, 1999 |
Episode 12 - [Looking For The Goodbars] |
Details : Worried that they've run out of friends Dharma and Greg interview a series of potential couples to see who meets their strict requirements. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Catherine Dent | Patrick Fabian | Writer : Chuck Lorre | |
Air Date : Dec. 14, 1999 |
Episode 13 - [Drop Dead Gorgeous] |
Details : Finding that Greg is overwhelmed with paper work (and that her own efforts to help only lead to desktop carnal encounters) Dharma determines to hire him a first-rate legal secretary. She tries to get pointers from Greg's former secretary Marlene but discovers that Marlene's only real skill is in dodging work. After submitting applicants to a battery of tests both skill-related and New Age Dharma finds the perfect secretary: the intelligent caring spiritually centered Kim -- who also happens to be a former fashion model. Despite Jane's skepticism Dharma insists she trusts Greg completely and goes out of her way to throw Kim And Greg together going so far as to have her accompany Greg to a dance with Kitty and Edward while she goes to a Smothers Brothers vineyard jamboree with Abby and Larry. When the car brakes Kim supposedly had serviced fail Dharma's trust looks like a fatal mistake... |
Guest Cast and Crew : Yeardley Smith | Liz Vassey | Director : Amanda Bearse | Writer : Rachel Sweet | Writer : Bill Prady | |
Air Date : Jan. 11, 2000 |
Episode 14 - [Good Cop Bad Daughter] |
Details : Dharma's friendship with two police officers gets her anti-establishment father Larry hot under the collar and the family feud threatens to ruin Abby's surprise birthday party. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Don Cummings | Writer : Don Foster | Director : Chuck Lorre | |
Air Date : Jan. 25, 2000 |
Episode 15 - [The Trouble With Troubador] |
Details : Dharma lends a helping hand to singer-songwriters Lyle Lovett and k.d. lang when their fame and fortune leaves them unfulfilled. Meanwhile a sarcastic hotel clerk spoils plans for the couple's romantic Valentine's Day getaway. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Ian Ogilvy | k.d. lang | Lyle Lovett | Writer : Eddie Gorodetsky | Director : Asaad Kelada | |
Air Date : Feb. 08, 2000 |
Episode 16 - [Weekend At Larry's] |
Details : While spending the weekend at Dharma's parents' house Greg fears they're in grave danger when an old family friend shows up unexpectedly -- Nunzio and Stinky dig up his skeleton in Larry's garden. Meanwhile Larry and Abby run into Edward and Kitty on a flight to Washington and discover that Edward is testifying before Congress on an environmental issue that Larry and Abby are protesting. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Paula Newsome | Writer : Bill Prady | |
Air Date : Feb. 15, 2000 |
Episode 17 - [The Spy Who Said He Loved Me] |
Details : Dharma runs into an old boyfriend (Jason Beghe) whose endless high-flown tales of jet setting sound more and more like flights of fancy. Meanwhile Greg's hernia becomes a popular topic for discussion and forces several trips to the doctor |
Guest Cast and Crew : Heidi Mark | Tom Poston | Jason Beghe | Director : Amanda Bearse | Writer : Bill Prady | |
Air Date : Feb. 22, 2000 |
Episode 18 - [A Night To Remember] |
Details : Much to Greg's horror Dharma tries to help Donald make a memorable evening of his first sexual experience. Meanwhile Greg searches for memories from his childhood but decides he would rather remain in the present; and Larry develops temporary powers of recollection. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Marissa Jaret Winokur | Writer : Don Foster | Director : Asaad Kelada | |
Air Date : Feb. 29, 2000 |
Episode 19 - [The Best Laid Plans] |
Details : For the first time in her life Dharma gets depressed about her sex life when she discovers that Greg can't make a move in the bedroom without checking his day planner first. Meanwhile a depressed Greg confides in Pete who convinces him the only logical explanation for the downturn in his sex life is that Dharma is seeing someone else. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Ed Quinn | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
Air Date : Mar. 14, 2000 |
Episode 20 - [Talkin' About My Regeneration] |
Details : Dharma's ritual of unburdening her sins every seven years reveals things that would be better off remaining a burden. Meanwhile Larry convinces the Montgomerys' maid Celia to go on strike leading everyone to discover how much control Celia has over Kitty's personality. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Will Mackenzie | Writer : Eddie Gorodetsky | |
Air Date : Mar. 28, 2000 |
Episode 21 - [Big Daddy] |
Details : Greg's old girlfriend Stephanie asks for his help in getting her son into Greg's old prep school; and once Dharma sets eyes on the boy she becomes convinced that he is Greg's child. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Karen Lorre | Writer : Chuck Lorre | Writer : Bill Prady | Director : Asaad Kelada | |
Air Date : Apr. 11, 2000 |
Episode 22 - [Your Place Or Mine] |
Details : After replacing her furniture with Greg's stored bachelor stuff Dharma is a changed woman. But not necessarily for the better -- she becomes strangely possessed with material ambition. Meanwhile Edward finally rebels against the fact that even his private den is entirely decorated by Kitty. |
Air Date : May. 02, 2000 |
Episode 23 - [Hell To The Chief] |
Details : When Abby objects to being president by acclamation yet again of the educational co-op she impulsively nominates Dharma to run against her and both women are nonplussed when Dharma is instantly elected. While Abby tries to be supportive Dharma sets about making changes which backfire convincing her that Abby is sabotaging her. Meanwhile k.d. lang asks Greg for a small legal favor which quickly goes to Greg's head. |
Guest Cast and Crew : k.d. lang | Kathryn Joosten | Writer : Rachel Sweet | |
Air Date : May. 09, 2000 |
Episode 24 - [Be My Baby] |
Details : Dharma's vision of a baby sets her and Greg to officially start trying; Pete asks for Greg's help after getting fired; Abby celebrates the onset of menopause. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Asaad Kelada | |
Air Date : May. 16, 2000 |