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Mad About You: Season 03
Running Time: 30 min.
Release By: NBC

Already a bona fide hit, though not a huge hit, Mad About You received a major shot in the arm ratings-wise when, upon entering its third season, the series was moved to Thursday evenings, just before Friends, as part of NBC's "Must See TV" lineup. By the end of the season, the series was posting its best numbers ever, and was a shoo-in for fall renewal. Though there were no cast changes amongst the series' regulars, there were several new faces in the recurring-character department. Jim Piddock replaced Paxton Whitehead as Hal Conway, the insufferable upper-crust British neighbor of Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt), while the roles of Jamie's parents, Gus and Teresa Stemple, filled by Paul Dooley and Nancy Dussault during season one, were now essayed by John Karlen and Penny Fuller. New to the cast were George O. Petrie as Paul's editor, Sid, Eric Stoltz as Jamie's ex-beau Alan, Anne Bobby as Jamie's former classmate Susannah Gould, and Meg Wyllie as the ubiquitous Aunt Lolly (though exactly whose aunt she was really remained a bit of a mystery). Season highlights included "My Boyfriend's Back!," wherein the series' characters were redefined in animated-cartoon form; "The Alan Brady Show," for which Carl Reiner, recreating the obnoxious TV comedian he'd originally played on The Dick Van Dyke Show, which won an Emmy award; and "Money Changes Everything," which likewise earned an Emmy for its guest star, Cyndi Lauper. A third Emmy was claimed by the Mad About You sound-mixing staff, headed by Peter Damski. The series closed out its third season with arguably its most bizarre episode, the hour-long "Up in Smoke," which emulated It's a Wonderful Life by showing Paul and Jamie what might have happened had they never met. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Mad About You: Season 03 Cast and Crew:

Paul Reiser - (Paul Buchman)

Helen Hunt - (Jamie Buchman)

Anne Ramsay - (Lisa Stemple)

Leila Kenzle - (Fran Devanow)

Tommy Hinkley - (Jay Selby)

John Pankow - (Ira Buchman)

Richard Kind - (Mark Devanow)

Production Credits:
Mikel Neiers (Cinematographer)
Victor Fresco (Co-Executive Producer)
Jeffrey Klarik (Co-producer)
Andrew Gordon (Co-producer)
Craig Knizek (Co-producer)
Billy Grundfest (Co-producer)
Jeffrey Lane (Executive Producer)
Danny Jacobson (Executive Producer)
Paul Reiser (Producer)
Marjorie Weitzman (Producer)
Bruce Chevillat (Producer)


Mad About You: Season 03 Episodes:
Mad About You: Escape from New York
Mad About You: Home
Mad About You: Till Death Do Us Part
Mad About You: When I'm Sixty Four
Mad About You: Legacy
Mad About You: Pandora's Box
Mad About You: The Ride Home
Mad About You: Giblets for Murray
Mad About You: Once More with Feeling
Mad About You: The City
Mad About You: Our Fifteen Minutes
Mad About You: How to Fall in Love
Mad About You: Mad About You, Part 1
Mad About You: Mad About You, Part 2
Mad About You: Just My Dog
Mad About You: The Alan Brady Show
Mad About You: Mad Without You
Mad About You: Purseona
Mad About You: Two Tickets to Paradise
Mad About You: Money Changes Everything
Mad About You: Cake Fear
Mad About You: My Boyfriend's Back!
Mad About You: Up in Smoke, Part 1
Mad About You: Up in Smoke, Part 2

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