Mad About You: Season 6

1997 · 23 episodes · ★ 6.9

What Season 6 of Mad About You

Season six opens with Paul and Jamie coming home from the hospital with their newborn daughter. Neither of them really knows how to care for her or what to name her, and Jamie's mother arrives just in time to help. Conflicts arise from everyday decisions: breastfeeding, the method for getting the baby to sleep, the search for daycare, or Jamie's return to work. Paul, cautious and analytical, examines every option until he's exhausted, while Jamie, freer and with her own quirks, prefers to act without so much planning. Every detail becomes a tug-of-war between two people who love each other but are still getting to know each other.

23episodes

Sep 23, 1997premiered

May 19, 1998latest episode

8.8 hrtotal runtime

Season 6 Episodes

6x01 Coming Home
Sep 23, 1997 · 23 min
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.
Written by Victor Levin · Starring Robin Bartlett, Carol Burnett, Paxton Whitehead, Judy Geeson
6x02 Letters to Mabel
Sep 30, 1997 · 23 min
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.
Directed by Gordon Hunt · Starring Robin Bartlett, Meredith Bishop, Suzie Plakson
6x03 Speed Baby
Oct 28, 1997 · 23 min
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.
Directed by Gordon Hunt · Starring Robin Bartlett, Gary Grossman, Suzie Plakson, Markus Redmond
6x04 Uncle Phil and the Coupons
Nov 4, 1997 · 23 min
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.
Directing: David Steinberg · Writing: Victor Levin, Paul Reiser · Starring: Mel Brooks, Anne-Marie Johnson, David Koechner, Robert Curtis Brown
6x05 Moody Blues
Nov 11, 1997 · 23 min
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.""
Directing: Gordon Hunt · Starring: Florence Stanley, Billy Barnes, José Zúñiga, Sydney Bennett
6x06 The Magic Pants
Nov 18, 1997 · 23 min
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.
Directing: Gordon Hunt · Starring: Judy Geeson, Earl Billings, Lisa Kudrow, Lili Taylor
6x07 Le Sex Show
Nov 25, 1997 · 23 min
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.
Directed by Gordon Hunt · Starring Robin Bartlett, Lewis Black, Suzie Plakson, Mo Gaffney
6x08 The New Friend
Dec 9, 1997 · 23 min
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.
Directed by Gordon Hunt · Written by Lissa Levin · Starring Robin Bartlett, Rebecca Lobo, Billy Barnes, Mare Winningham
6x09 The Conversation
Dec 16, 1997 · 23 min
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.
Writing: Victor Levin
6x10 Breastfeeding
Jan 6, 1998 · 23 min
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.""
Directing: David Steinberg · Writing: Lissa Levin · Starring: Jeff Garlin, Carol Burnett, Rick Overton, John Michael Higgins
6x11 Good Old Reliable Nathan
Jan 13, 1998 · 23 min
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.
Directed by Michael Lembeck · Written by Victor Levin · Starring Melinda McGraw, Jack Hallett, Hank Azaria, Nathan Lane
6x12 Separate Planes
Jan 20, 1998 · 23 min
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.
Directing: Gordon Hunt · Starring: Rita Wilson, Rick Overton, Dean Cameron, Alison Martin
6x13 Cheating on Sheila
Feb 24, 1998 · 23 min
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.
Directed by Helen Hunt · Written by Sheila R. Lawrence · Starring Eileen Brennan, Sydney Pollack, Mo Gaffney, Susan D. Moore
6x14 Back to Work
Mar 3, 1998 · 23 min
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.""
Directing: David Steinberg · Starring: Mary Matalin, James Carville, Fred Willard, Steven Anderson
6x15 The 2nd Mrs. Buchman
Mar 17, 1998 · 23 min
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.
Directing: David Steinberg · Starring: Franklin Cover, Bill Erwin, Bill Henderson, Chuck McCann
6x16 The Coin of Destiny
Mar 24, 1998 · 23 min
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.
Directing: Michael Lembeck · Starring: Robin Bartlett, Jeff Garlin, Will Rothhaar, Judy Geeson
6x17 The Caper
Mar 31, 1998 · 23 min
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.
Directed by David Steinberg · Written by Victor Levin · Starring Robin Bartlett, Jeff Garlin, Paxton Whitehead, Judy Geeson
6x18 The Baby Video
Apr 14, 1998 · 23 min
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.
Directing: Michael Lembeck · Starring: Robin Bartlett, Logan O'Brien, Mare Winningham, Caitlin Alderton
6x19 Fire at Riff's
Apr 28, 1998 · 23 min
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.
Starring: Robin Bartlett, Darcy DeMoss, Suzie Plakson, James Carville
6x20 Mother's Day
May 5, 1998 · 23 min
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.
Directing: Helen Hunt · Starring: Robin Bartlett, Jeff Garlin, Mark Harrison, Joey Dente
6x21 Paul Slips in the Shower
May 12, 1998 · 23 min
Paul's life flashes before his eyes when he takes a spill in the shower.
Directing: David Steinberg · Writing: Victor Levin, Paul Reiser · Starring: Mo Gaffney, Meghan Murphy, Gordon Hunt, Helen Siff
6x22 Nat & Arley
May 19, 1998 · 23 min
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.
Directing: Gordon Hunt · Starring: Eugene Levy, Lili Taylor, Hank Azaria, Nancy Bell
6x23 The Finale Season Finale
May 19, 1998 · 23 min
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."
Directed by Gordon Hunt · Written by Victor Levin · Starring Mary Matalin, James Cameron, James Carville, Ellen DeGeneres