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| Episode 1 - [Dr Wonderful] |
| Details : With Mark Devanow in Europe a pregnant Jamie and Paul have to look around for a gynecologist and Debbie tries to set them up with her girlfriend. Meanwhile the elder Buchmans finally get to meet Debbie's friend. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Michael Lembeck | Writer : Larry Charles | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : Sep. 17, 1996 |
| Episode 2 - [The Grant] |
| Details : Jamie tries to stay awake avoid coffee and continue to manage Brockwell's campaign. Meanwhile while Paul is trying to figure out how to use a sizeable grant that has come his way his Uncle Phil asks Paul and Ira to visit him in Brooklyn. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jenji Kohan | Director : Michael Lembeck | Writer : Richard Day | Writer : Larry Charles | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : Sep. 24, 1996 |
| Episode 3 - [Therapy] |
| Details : Months after setting it up Paul and Jamie decide to keep their appointment with the therapist Fran referred them to but doing so delays Paul's shoot of his parents' reminiscences with some interesting consequences. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Michael Lembeck | Writer : Richard Day | |
| Air Date : Oct. 15, 1996 |
| Episode 4 - [The Clip Show] |
| Details : Having chosen the residents of Apartment 11-D as its parents the baby in the making deals with musical interludes and parental cooing and with lots and lots of choice moments from their years together. In other words a clip show. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Leslie Caveny | Director : Michael Lembeck | |
| Air Date : Oct. 22, 1996 |
| Episode 5 - [Burt's Building] |
| Details : Filming of Paul's documentary takes him and Burt back to their old apartment building for the day and events conspire to make Paul late for an appointment at Joan's office to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Michael Lembeck | Writer : Larry Charles | Writer : Ron Darian | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : Oct. 29, 1996 |
| Episode 6 - [Jamie's Parents] |
| Details : The Stemples arrive at Paul and Jamie's for a two-day visit armed with a surprise and another soon follows. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Michael Lembeck | |
| Air Date : Nov. 12, 1996 |
| Episode 7 - [Outbreak] |
| Details : The Buchmans decide the time and place of their grand announcement but the leaks start early during Thanksgiving week. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ralph Manza | Director : David Steinberg | Writer : Richard Day | |
| Air Date : Nov. 19, 1996 |
| Episode 8 - [Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge] |
| Details : While Ira counsels against it Paul contemplates abstinence until July. However Jamie has other ideas and talks Paul into a trip upstate where they chance upon a dessert item with magical powers. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : David Steinberg | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : Nov. 26, 1996 |
| Episode 9 - [The Gym] |
| Details : Paul so likes playing the mystery man at a local gym that he talks Jamie out of working there whereupon she hands over her free pass to a homeless acquaintance from the neighborhood. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bruno Kirby | Director : Michael Lembeck | Writer : Richard Day | Writer : Larry Charles | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : Dec. 17, 1996 |
| Episode 10 - [Chicken Man] |
| Details : Jamie finally lets her coworkers and Lance know about the baby while Ira turning money man and producer for Buchman actually managers to produce a narrator at least in voice. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : David Steinberg | Writer : Larry Charles | Writer : Ron Darian | |
| Air Date : Jan. 07, 1997 |
| Episode 11 - [The Recital] |
| Details : A politically incorrect Jamie pays the price for commenting about Ryan's ability as a budding violinist while a simmering Paul works up the nerve to confront their therapist about her overcharging ways. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jenji Kohan | Director : David Steinberg | |
| Air Date : Jan. 14, 1997 |
| Episode 12 - [The Handyman] |
| Details : The perils of engaging Paul and Jamie's handyman are visited upon Lisa whose fiance is more than willing to finance Paul's over-budget documentary project. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ed Asner | Director : David Steinberg | Writer : Richard Day | |
| Air Date : Jan. 21, 1997 |
| Episode 13 - [Astrology] |
| Details : Nat's sister an astrologer is in town and agrees to do charts for Lisa Ira Paul and a very reluctant Jamie. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jenji Kohan | Director : David Steinberg | Writer : Larry Charles | |
| Air Date : Feb. 04, 1997 |
| Episode 14 - [The Penis] |
| Details : The Buchmans promise to name their baby if it's a boy after Paul's ailing Uncle Phil then find out his real name. Meanwhile Paul is suddenly sure of the baby's sex. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : David Steinberg | Writer : Richard Day | Writer : Larry Charles | |
| Air Date : Feb. 11, 1997 |
| Episode 15 - [Citizen Buchman] |
| Details : Paul's great-uncle Marty dies on camera as he is being interviewed for Buchman and his cryptic last words lead to a few unexpected disclosures among the Buchman clan. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Florence Stanley | Shecky Greene | Director : David Steinberg | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : Feb. 18, 1997 |
| Episode 16 - [Her Houseboy Coco] |
| Details : An enforced bed-rest of two to three days for Jamie means that Paul has to attend to her every need and also deal with lack of heat in their apartment AND a kidnapping. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Gordon Hunt | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : Feb. 25, 1997 |
| Episode 17 - [On The Road] |
| Details : To escape Jamie's baby shower Paul hits the road with Ira and Marvin in the latter's van but his urge to tell insensitive jokes quickly leads to trouble. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : David Steinberg | Writer : Paul Reiser | Writer : Richard Day | Writer : Larry Charles | |
| Air Date : Mar. 18, 1997 |
| Episode 18 - [The Cockatoo] |
| Details : Paul talks an unwilling Jamie into quitting her job at the mayoral campaign but he is less successful in dealing with an exotic bird that flies into their lives. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Gordon Hunt | Writer : Richard Day | |
| Air Date : Apr. 01, 1997 |
| Episode 19 - [The Touching Game] |
| Details : A very pregnant Jamie insists on helping out at David (Paul's cousin) and Jared's new coffee shop with disastrous results. Meanwhile Ira and Paul help a pregnant woman on a bus. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sam Lloyd | Director : Gordon Hunt | Writer : Richard Day | |
| Air Date : Apr. 15, 1997 |
| Episode 20 - [The Dry Run] |
| Details : Paul and Jamie flunk out of a birthday class that Joan has managed to get them enrolled in. Meanwhile Buchman is being held hostage by the elder Buchmans. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Robin Bartlett | Marsha Warfield | Cynthia Harris | Louis Zorich | Director : Michael Lembeck | Writer : Larry Charles | |
| Air Date : Apr. 29, 1997 |
| Episode 21 - [Guardianhood] |
| Details : Paul and Jamie are advised by their lawyer to select guardians for the baby in case of their death. But to their astonishment rejections pile up. Meanwhile Jamie is flattered by the attentions of an 18-year-old Bobby Rubenfeld. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Robin Bartlett | Suzie Plakson | Cynthia Harris | Louis Zorich | Seth Green | Lisa Kudrow as Ursula | Megan Mullally | Director : Michael Lembeck | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : May. 06, 1997 |
| Episode 22 - [The Feud] |
| Details : Theresa and Sylvia vie for the new crib honors with predictable consequences. On another front Paul wins big at poker but is paid off by Marvin in the form of specially-priced household chores. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jeff Garlin | Carol Burnett | Cynthia Harris | Louis Zorich | Director : Gordon Hunt | Writer : Richard Day | |
| Air Date : May. 13, 1997 |
| Episode 23 - [The Birth Part 1] |
| Details : As Paul's documentary gets a surprisingly good review at a film festival Jamie thinks she is going into labor. So they rush to the hospital only to find out it was a false alarm. This happens several more times until it's finally for real. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Robin Bartlett | Estelle Getty | Carol Burnett | Susie Coelho | Suzie Plakson | Cynthia Harris | Mo Gaffney | Louis Zorich | Judyann Elder | Eric Stoltz | Dean Cameron | Michael Moore | David Dunard | Director : Gordon Hunt | Writer : Larry Charles | |
| Air Date : May. 20, 1997 |
| Episode 24 - [The Birth Part 2] |
| Details : Jamie runs into an old flame in a cab on the way to the hospital. Meanwhile Paul gets a grand tour of the innards of Roosevelt Hospital courtesy of a film star. And oh yeah the baby arrives. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Carroll O'Connor | Robin Bartlett | Bruce Willis | Carol Burnett | Beau Billingslea | Suzie Plakson | Cynthia Harris | Mo Gaffney | Louis Zorich | Judyann Elder | Dean Cameron | Director : Gordon Hunt | Writer : Larry Charles | |
| Air Date : May. 20, 1997 |