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| Episode 1 - [Coming Home] |
| Details : The first day back from the hospital finds Paul and Jamie still figuring out how to care for their daughter and what to name her until help arrives in the form of Jamie's mother. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Carol Burnett | Paxton Whitehead | Suzie Plakson | Judy Geeson | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : Sep. 23, 1997 |
| Episode 2 - [Letters To Mabel] |
| Details : Jamie kicks off a letter-writing spree by penning one to her infant daughter to be read on her 18th birthday. Ira and Joan join in on the fun while Paul goes through draft after draft. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Meredith Bishop | Suzie Plakson | Director : Gordon Hunt | |
| Air Date : Sep. 30, 1997 |
| Episode 3 - [Speed Baby] |
| Details : Jamie stumbles upon a strange cure to Mabel's crying fits while Paul valiently tries to catch a few winks before an important meeting with a Belgian distributor. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Suzie Plakson | Gary Grossman | Director : Gordon Hunt | |
| Air Date : Oct. 28, 1997 |
| Episode 4 - [Uncle Phil And The Coupons] |
| Details : The search for a preschool for the three-week old Mabel cannot begin soon enough but has to compete for attention with the coupon fraud trial of Uncle Phil and an odd caper involving Jamie and Ira. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mel Brooks | Anne-Marie Johnson | David Koechner | Robert Curtis Brown | Director : David Steinberg | Writer : Paul Reiser | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : Nov. 04, 1997 |
| Episode 5 - [Moody Blues] |
| Details : Jamie resents being tagged with the dime-store psychological cliche that is postpartum depression and almost wrecks the wedding plans of a stranger. Meanwhile Paul directs a charity production of The Pirates of Penzance. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Florence Stanley | Billy Barnes | Director : Gordon Hunt | |
| Air Date : Nov. 11, 1997 |
| Episode 6 - [The Magic Pants] |
| Details : The Buchmans find a baby-sitter they are comfortable with but Paul and Jamie's first evening out by themselves begins with Paul not in his pants and ends on an even more unusual note. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Judy Geeson | Earl Billings | Lisa Kudrow as Ursula | Lili Taylor | Director : Gordon Hunt | |
| Air Date : Nov. 18, 1997 |
| Episode 7 - [Le Sex Show] |
| Details : Paul and Jamie grapple with the pressure of having sex for the first time since Mabel's birth but their therapist seems not much help. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lewis Black | Suzie Plakson | Mo Gaffney | Director : Gordon Hunt | |
| Air Date : Nov. 25, 1997 |
| Episode 8 - [The New Friend] |
| Details : Paul and Jamie meet a new neighbor Sarah a divorced mother of three who manages to teach Jamie a more casual style of parenting. Also Paul and Jamie conspire to set up Sarah on a blind date with Ira. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Rebecca Lobo | Billy Barnes | Mare Winningham | Kyle Sullivan | Director : Gordon Hunt | Writer : Lissa Levin | |
| Air Date : Dec. 09, 1997 |
| Episode 9 - [The Conversation] |
| Details : Paul and Jamie try to help each other get through the excruciating process of Ferberizing the baby--they must allow the child to cry herself to sleep without comforting her. The psychological and moral implications of this are discussed and debated at length. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : Dec. 16, 1997 |
| Episode 10 - [Breastfeeding] |
| Details : Jamie is reluctant to stop breast-feeding exclusively but she knows it's time for the baby to learn to feed from the bottle while Paul is excited to be able to feed the baby for the first time. Meanwhile Jamie's upset to learn that her mom is dating a much younger man a dancer from Lord of the Dance. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jeff Garlin | Carol Burnett | John Michael Higgins | Rick Overton | Director : David Steinberg | Writer : Lissa Levin | |
| Air Date : Jan. 06, 1998 |
| Episode 11 - [Good Old Reliable Nathan] |
| Details : When Paul gives a speech at a college he's shocked to discover that Jamie lost her virginity to the visiting professor. It's a comedy of errors as the professor believes Paul is angry and wants to do the professor harm. Meanwhile Ira meets a woman who flirts with him only to get better burial plots. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Melinda McGraw | Jack Hallett | Director : Michael Lembeck | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : Jan. 13, 1998 |
| Episode 12 - [Separate Planes] |
| Details : It's the first plane flight with the baby and Paul and Jamie take separate planes--they're told it's not uncommon for new parents to do to avoid orphaning a baby in the event of a tragedy. Paul takes Mabel and winds up using her to lead a passenger revolt on the plane to demand less heat in the cabin. Meanwhile Jamie's looking forward to a break from mothering yet she ends up mothering everyone. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Rita Wilson | Rick Overton | Dean Cameron | Director : Gordon Hunt | |
| Air Date : Jan. 20, 1998 |
| Episode 13 - [Cheating On Sheila] |
| Details : When Paul and Jamie feel that their current therapist Sheila isn't quite helping out Paul and Jamie see another therapist Sydney. They love Sydney enough to break up with Sheila--that is until they find out that Sydney's hour of therapy is too expensive. Meanwhile Paul grapples with how to get his father to stop suffocating Paul socially. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Eileen Brennan | Sydney Pollack | Mo Gaffney | Director : Helen Hunt | Writer : Sheila R. Lawrence | |
| Air Date : Feb. 24, 1998 |
| Episode 14 - [Back To Work] |
| Details : Jamie decides to go back to work and everything says to go back to work. There's only one problem: she doesn't want to and tries to get herself fired. Meanwhile Paul confronts the newspaper journalist who wrote an article filled with errors about Buchman. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mary Matalin | James Carville | Director : David Steinberg | |
| Air Date : Mar. 03, 1998 |
| Episode 15 - [The 2nd Mrs Buchman] |
| Details : Jamie discovers that Paul was married before--if only to get an old Russian woman U.S. citizenship. Jamie's upset that she is indeed the second Mrs. Buchman. Meanwhile Paul is an umpire for his father's senior-citizen baseball game and a fight erupts between father and son over a call. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Franklin Cover | Billy Barnes | Bill Erwin | Bill Henderson | Chuck McCann | Dena Dietrich | Director : David Steinberg | |
| Air Date : Mar. 17, 1998 |
| Episode 16 - [The Coin Of Destiny] |
| Details : When Paul innocently flips a coin to make a decision Paul's former producer overhears a conversation that puts Paul and Jamie in the limelight with the tabloid program Hard Copy. Also Ira finds that he's the prime suspect in a paternity case and Paul's parents try their luck in Atlantic City. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jeff Garlin | Will Rothhaar | Larry Miller | Judy Geeson | Director : Michael Lembeck | |
| Air Date : Mar. 24, 1998 |
| Episode 17 - [The Caper] |
| Details : Paul's birthday party turns into an event worthy of a detective mystery when Maggie and Hal suspect Buchman party guests of stealing a prestigious painting from their adjacent apartment. Meanwhile Marvin gets into a growling match with Murray. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jeff Garlin | Paxton Whitehead | Suzie Plakson | Judy Geeson | Director : David Steinberg | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : Mar. 31, 1998 |
| Episode 18 - [The Baby Video] |
| Details : Paul Jamie and Ira decide to make a baby video. However Paul starring as the Sandman frightens kids and turns them off to the concept. Meanwhile Paul's parents tell him he has a half-brother. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Logan O'Brien | Mare Winningham | Director : Michael Lembeck | |
| Air Date : Apr. 14, 1998 |
| Episode 19 - [Fire At Riff's] |
| Details : Paul convinces Jamie to quit her job. Joan is posing for The 20 Most Eligible Bachelorettes in New York for a magazine and Debbie is jealous. Paul Jamie Ira Joan and Debbie go to Riff's where a fire breaks out while Paul is in the bathroom. Ira saves Ursula's life while Jamie Debbie and Joan run out leaving Paul in the bathroom. Joan asks Debbie to marry her. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Darcy DeMoss | Suzie Plakson | Lisa Kudrow as Ursula | James Carville | Fred Willard | |
| Air Date : Apr. 28, 1998 |
| Episode 20 - [Mother's Day] |
| Details : Paul tries to pick a Mother's Day present for Jamie but Ira and Marvin have better ideas: a rocking chair and a message displayed on the Times Square video screen. Sylvia is jealous of Jamie's gifts and fakes injury to steal attention. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jeff Garlin | Director : Helen Hunt | |
| Air Date : May. 05, 1998 |
| Episode 21 - [Paul Slips In The Shower] |
| Details : Paul's life flashes before his eyes when he takes a spill in the shower. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mo Gaffney | Director : David Steinberg | Writer : Paul Reiser | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : May. 12, 1998 |
| Episode 22 - [Nat And Arley] |
| Details : Paul and Jamie act as matchmakers for dogwalker Nat and babysitter Arley. Meanwhile Ira tries giving up sex and Paul makes a discovery about Jamie when they go to a sleep clinic. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Eugene Levy | Lili Taylor | Director : Gordon Hunt | |
| Air Date : May. 19, 1998 |
| Episode 23 - [The Finale] |
| Details : Paul and Jamie search for a full-time nanny and Paul finds one in the form of Nancy Bloom a caterer he inadvertently got fired from the production of a documentary about The Making of Titanic. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mary Matalin | James Cameron | James Carville | Ellen DeGeneres as Nancy Bloom | Fred Willard | Daniel Hagen | Director : Gordon Hunt | Writer : Victor Levin | |
| Air Date : May. 19, 1998 |