Mad About You: Season 3

1994 · 24 episodes · ★ 7.9

What Season 3 of Mad About You

Paul Buchman and Jamie Stemple are a newlywed couple living in Manhattan. He directs documentaries: he's creative, though careful and very analytical. She works in public relations, has a freer spirit and a few quirks. They met only five months ago, so they're still setting the ground rules for living together in their apartment. Both are neurotic, each in their own way, and any everyday detail can turn into an argument. Conflicts come from neighbors, in-laws, friends and work. Fran, Ira and Lisa round out the cast of characters who keep the tension alive.

24episodes

Sep 22, 1994premiered

May 18, 1995latest episode

9.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Escape from New York
Sep 22, 1994 · 23 min
A wave of heat and the death of climate device rushes Paul and Jamie to find a refreshment. They go out on the streets of NY, but find out that there it's even worse. Jaime convinces Paul that they should runaway from the town and have dinner in a restaurant by the sea where they used to eat. But, while borrowing Fran's car, Jamie gets upset to find out that Fran got her old job...
Directing: David Steinberg · Writing: Danny Jacobson, Jeffrey Lane · Starring: Cynthia Harris, Lisa Kudrow
3x02 Home
Sep 29, 1994 · 23 min
The war of the Buchmans and the Conways is fully engaged as rumors fly about the apartment building going co-op. Meanwhile, Murray and Sophie, Conway's dog, find true love and then some more.
Directing: David Steinberg · Writing: Jack Burditt · Starring: Cynthia Harris, Jerry Adler, Jim Piddock, Judy Geeson
3x03 Till Death Do Us Part
Oct 6, 1994 · 23 min
After Jamie's dearest uncle dies, Paul, Jamie and Lisa find themselves together on his funeral. But, when Jamie convinces Paul to make a speech, he insluts her entire family with uncomfrontable notices. However, Paul soon realizes that he is the one who is upset, because Jamie insists that her uncle Van's ashes would be in their house until they find a better place for him.
Directing: David Steinberg · Writing: Danny Jacobson · Starring: Ernie Sabella, Dana Lee, Al Berry, Danny Mora
3x04 When I'm Sixty-Four
Oct 13, 1994 · 23 min
The Wickers have a big fight and Mr. Wicker moves in with the Buchmans. Meanwhile, Jamie finally succumbs to an eye exam, where she finds out that she'll have to wear glasses. But, to decide between between glasses and contact lenses is so hard that it seems to be mission: impsossible.
Directing: David Steinberg · Writing: Victor Levin · Starring: Jerry Adler, Judy Geeson, Anita Gillette, Kristen Cloke
3x05 Legacy
Oct 20, 1994 · 23 min
Arranging an appearance by a former Yankee player for Buchman's Sporting Goods annual midnight sale, Jamie gets her PR juices flowing. But Paul is left feeling uncomfortable, for more reasons than one.
Directing: David Steinberg · Writing: Jeffrey Lane · Starring: Cynthia Harris, Louis Zorich, Charles Hallahan, Wendy Hammers
3x06 Pandora's Box
Nov 3, 1994 · 23 min
Jamie works around Paul's opposition to having a TV in their bedroom, and hotwires an additional cable outlet with Fran's help. The resulting complications ultimately lead to a city-wide blackout.
Directing: David Steinberg · Starring: Jerry Adler, Jim Piddock, Judy Geeson, Lisa Kudrow
3x07 The Ride Home
Nov 10, 1994 · 23 min
Fran's birthday party is the setting for Jamie's unexpected encounter with an ex-boyfriend, and the saga of who dumped whom dominates her evening. The cab ride home provides two interlocking perspectives of the evening's events.
Directed by: David Steinberg · Starring: Eric Stoltz, Wendie Malick, Vince Grant, Judith Hoag
3x08 Giblets for Murray
Nov 17, 1994 · 23 min
Jamie's perfect Thanksgiving feast involves a buffet for ten and five turkeys, thanks to Murray and the extremely friendly neighborhood grocer Kim.
Directing: David Steinberg · Writing: Jeffrey Klarik · Starring: Cynthia Harris, Louis Zorich, Penny Fuller, John Karlen
3x09 Once More With Feeling
Dec 8, 1994 · 23 min
As the Buchmans' sex life waxes and wanes, Lisa snags a pair of free dinners, Fran loses a window office and Ira acquires a silent partner.
Directing: David Steinberg · Writing: Victor Levin · Starring: Lisa Kudrow, Jack Shearer, George Petrie
3x10 The City
Dec 15, 1994 · 23 min
A bad day in the Big Apple leaves Jamie unwilling to go out to see a feel-good movie, but Paul talks her into an evening out, if only to meet Ira's new girlfriend.
Directing: David Steinberg · Writing: Paul Reiser · Starring: Marita Geraghty, Richard Redlin, Iqbal Theba, Bibi Osterwald
3x11 Our Fifteen Minutes
Jan 5, 1995 · 23 min
Paul is one of six documentary filmmakers selected by PBS to turn the camera on themselves for 15 minutes, and in his case, it turns into a big surprise.
Directing: Thomas Schlamme · Writing: Jack Burditt · Starring: Judy Geeson
3x12 How to Fall in Love
Jan 19, 1995 · 23 min
Paul's ideas on how to meet and engage the opposite sex are tested by Jamie in a hypothetical encounter, while Ira has a very real encounter with Jamie's friend.
Directing: Thomas Schlamme · Writing: Jeffrey Lane · Starring: Judy Geeson, Lisa Kudrow, Anne Bobby, Eric Lutes
3x13 Mad About You (1)
Feb 2, 1995 · 23 min
The saga of the three months leading up to Paul and Jamie's wedding, what with the invitations, the reception menu, the dress fittings, the band selection, the rehearsal dinner and the remarkable goings-on of the night before the wedding.
Directing: David Steinberg · Writing: Danny Jacobson, Jeffrey Klarik · Starring: Cynthia Harris, Louis Zorich, Robin Bartlett, Richard Kind
3x14 Mad About You (2)
Feb 2, 1995 · 23 min
The saga of the three months leading up to Paul and Jamie's wedding, what with the invitations, the reception menu, the dress fittings, the band selection, the rehearsal dinner and the remarkable goings-on of the night before.
Directing: David Steinberg · Writing: Danny Jacobson, Jeffrey Klarik · Starring: Cynthia Harris, Louis Zorich, Robin Bartlett, Richard Kind
3x15 Just My Dog
Feb 9, 1995 · 23 min
The tale of Murray's showbiz career, spawned by a walk-on appearance in a commercial directed by Paul, advanced by an eager agent, leading all the way to an audition for a series.
Directing: Thomas Schlamme · Starring: Judy Geeson, Richard Frank, Tom Gallop, Rachel Hunter
3x16 The Alan Brady Show
Feb 16, 1995 · 23 min
Paul finds it very difficult to deal with the considerable ego of a legendary TV star, until help arrives in the form of a tip from a surprising quarter.
Directed by: Gordon Hunt · Starring: Carl Reiner, Alix Elias, William Utay, Penny Fuller
3x17 Mad Without You
Feb 23, 1995 · 23 min
Jamie goes up to Connecticut to keep her dad company, and the home-alone Paul gets quite giddy enjoying his role as ""Lord of the Manor.""
Directed by: Michael Lembeck · Starring: Jerry Adler, Jim Piddock, Judy Geeson, Debra Mooney
3x18 Purseona
Mar 9, 1995 · 23 min
Paul's Canadian adventure gets off to a bad start and Jamie's pitch to a client does likewise while Lisa's day is smooth sailing after she accidentally snags her sister's purse and more.
Directed by: Michael Lembeck · Starring: Clea Lewis, Nancy Lenehan, John O'Leary, Pierre Gonneau
3x19 Two Tickets to Paradise
Mar 30, 1995 · 23 min
Paul and Jamie use his parents' non-refundable package for a holiday in the Caribbean, telling tall tales in multiple languages.
Directing: Michael Lembeck · Starring: Caroline Aaron, Pamela Dunlap, Dominic Hoffman, John C. Moskoff
3x20 Money Changes Everything
Apr 27, 1995 · 23 min
Marianne returns from Luxembourg, sans her husband, but with ""more money than Canada,"" eager to finance Ira's new catalog business with an interest-free loan, but his silent partner finds voice to veto the deal.
Directing: Michael Lembeck · Starring: Patrick Ewing, E.J. Callahan, Cyndi Lauper, Anne Bobby
3x21 Cake Fear
May 4, 1995 · 23 min
The saga of Paul's birthdays since meeting Jamie, going back and then forth, recounting the disasters and the strange tale of a bottle of Grandfather Port.
Directing: Michael Lembeck · Writing: Jeffrey Lane · Starring: Judy Geeson, Anne Bobby, Meg Wyllie, George Petrie
3x22 My Boyfriend's Back
May 11, 1995 · 23 min
Jamie is obliged to work on an advertising campaign with ex-boyfriend Alan, a graphics artist, who has recently published a comic book about an evil queen in outer space. But the queen's looks and exploits sound like anything but fiction to Jamie.
Directing: Michael Lembeck · Writing: Victor Levin · Starring: Jim Piddock, Eric Stoltz, Jon Polito, Gareth Williams
3x23 Up in Smoke (1)
May 18, 1995 · 23 min
Unable to buy her an anniversary present, with or without everyone else's help, Paul hands Jamie a slip of paper entitling her to a magical night. Things take a decidedly unusual turn after that.
Directing: Michael Lembeck · Writing: Jeffrey Klarik · Starring: Jerry Adler, Jim Piddock, Judy Geeson, Lisa Kudrow
3x24 Up in Smoke (2) Season Finale
May 18, 1995 · 23 min
Unable to buy her an anniversary present, with or without everyone else's help, Paul hands Jamie a slip of paper entitling her to a magical night. Things take a decidedly unusual turn after that.
Directing: Michael Lembeck · Writing: Jeffrey Lane, Jack Burditt · Starring: Jerry Adler, Jim Piddock, Judy Geeson, Lisa Kudrow