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Stark Raving Mad (TV series)
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Stark Raving Mad is an American sitcom
that aired from on NBC
from 1999
to 2000
. The series stars Tony Shalhoub
and Neil Patrick Harris
.
s and possibly obsessive-compulsive disorder
. On January 10, 2000 the sitcom won a People's Choice Award
for Favorite New Television Comedy Series. The sitcom premiered on September 23, 1999 and was officially cancelled by NBC on April 15, 2000.
Margaret 'Maddie' Keller was to be played by Jessica Cauffiel
as she appears in several early cast photos.
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
that aired from on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
from 1999
1999 in television
The year 1999 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1999.For the American TV schedule, see: 1999-00 United States network television schedule.-Events:-Debuts:-Miniseries:...
to 2000
2000 in television
The year 2000 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 2000.For the American TV schedule, see: 2000-01 United States network television schedule.-Event:-Debuts:-1940s:...
. The series stars Tony Shalhoub
Tony Shalhoub
Anthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub is an American actor of Lebanese descent. His television work includes the roles of Antonio Scarpacci on Wings and sleuth Adrian Monk on the TV series Monk. He has won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for his work in Monk...
and Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, singer, director, and magician.Prominent roles of his career include the title role in Doogie Howser, M.D., Colonel Carl Jenkins in Starship Troopers, the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, a fictionalized version of himself in the Harold...
.
Synopsis
Shalhoub stars as eccentric horror novelist Ian Stark obsessed with practical jokes whose first book Below Ground was a best seller. Neil Patrick Harris is Stark's reluctant editor Henry McNeeley who has a variety of phobiaPhobia
A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrational...
s and possibly obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive–compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety, or by a combination of such obsessions and compulsions...
. On January 10, 2000 the sitcom won a People's Choice Award
People's Choice Awards
The People's Choice Awards is an American awards show recognizing the people and the work of popular culture. The show has been held annually since 1975 and is voted on by the general public. The People's Choice Awards air on CBS and are produced by Procter & Gamble and Survivor magnate Mark Burnett...
for Favorite New Television Comedy Series. The sitcom premiered on September 23, 1999 and was officially cancelled by NBC on April 15, 2000.
Margaret 'Maddie' Keller was to be played by Jessica Cauffiel
Jessica Cauffiel
Jessica Cauffiel is an American actress and singer.-Early life:Cauffiel was born in Detroit, Michigan; her mother is a social worker and her father is Lowell Cauffiel, a best-selling true crime author, screenwriter and television documentary producer...
as she appears in several early cast photos.
Credited cast
- Tony ShalhoubTony ShalhoubAnthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub is an American actor of Lebanese descent. His television work includes the roles of Antonio Scarpacci on Wings and sleuth Adrian Monk on the TV series Monk. He has won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for his work in Monk...
as Ian Stark - Neil Patrick HarrisNeil Patrick HarrisNeil Patrick Harris is an American actor, singer, director, and magician.Prominent roles of his career include the title role in Doogie Howser, M.D., Colonel Carl Jenkins in Starship Troopers, the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, a fictionalized version of himself in the Harold...
as Henry McNeeley - Eddie McClintockEddie McClintockEdward "Eddie" Theodore McClintock is an American actor who has starred and guest starred in numerous television shows. He currently portrays the role of Secret Service agent Peter Lattimer on the Syfy series Warehouse 13....
as Jake Donovan - Dorie Barton as Tess Farraday
- Heather Paige KentHeather Paige KentHeather Paige Kent is an American actress noted for her television roles. She was born in the Bronx and grew up in Chappaqua, New York. In 1990 she received a BFA from Syracuse University. From 2000 to 2002 she starred in the CBS television drama That's Life as Lydia DeLucca...
as Margaret 'Maddie' Keller
Recurring cast
- Harriet Sansom HarrisHarriet Sansom HarrisHarriet Sansom Harris , often credited as "Harriet Harris" is an American actress best known for her portrayals of Bebe Glazer on Frasier and Felicia Tilman on Desperate Housewives. She won a Tony Award in 2002 as a Featured Actress in a Musical for playing the evil white slaver Mrs. Meers in...
as Audrey - Chris SarandonChris SarandonChris Sarandon is an American actor who was married to actress Susan Sarandon between 1968 and 1979. He is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series,...
as Cesar - Dina Waters as Katherine 'Kit' Yates
Episode list
| # | |Title | |Director | 1 | 1ADM79 | Pilot | September 23, 1999 | James Burrows James Burrows James Edward Burrows is an American television director who has been working in television since the 1970s.-Biography:... |
Steven Levitan Steven Levitan Steven E. Levitan is an American director, screenwriter and producer of television comedies. He has created such TV series as Just Shoot Me!, Stark Raving Mad, Stacked, Back to You, and Modern Family.... |
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| Henry McNeely gets a promotion he doesn't want. He's now the editor for the eccentric horror novelist Ian Stark. Ian's practical jokes are done at the expense of Henry. | |||||||||
| 2 | 1ADM01 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | September 30, 1999 | Ted Wass Ted Wass (actor) Ted Wass , is an American actor and director. Goodman School of Drama graduate Wass made his Broadway debut in the 1976 production Grease... |
Alan Kirschenbaum | ||||
| Trying to pull another joke on Henry Ian mistakes in recommending some other woman's wishes as those of Henry's girlfriend to Henry. Ian even takes Henry to a sex shop for kinky presents to "her girlfriend". | |||||||||
| 3 | 1ADM03 | Sometimes a Fritter Is Just a Fritter | October 7, 1999 | Ted Wass | David A. Goodman David A. Goodman David A. Goodman is an American writer and producer and a graduate of the University of Chicago, earning an BA in 1984. He was one of the executive producers of Family Guy, beginning its fourth season, joining the show as a co-executive producer in season three... |
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| Henry's misunderstanding of a change of a name of a character in Ian's manuscript ruins Ian's morning routine of fritters and long walks. | |||||||||
| 4 | 1ADM05 | Four Colds and a Funeral | October 14, 1999 | Gail Mancuso Gail Mancuso Gail Mancuso is an American television director.- Select TV work :* Modern Family * $h*! My Dad Says * 30 Rock * Scrubs... |
Eric Zicklin Eric Zicklin Eric Zicklin is an American television producer and writer.He is best known for his work on the sitcoms Frasier and Dharma & Greg. His other television credits include Stark Raving Mad, Center of the Universe, Twenty Good Years, Yes, Dear and Hot in Cleveland.In 1995, in one of his first television... |
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| Henry accidentally kills a man named Professor Huggles (a character obviously inspired by Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone.... ) |
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| 5 | 1ADM06 | The Lyin' King | October 21, 1999 | Gail Mancuso | Brian Buckner Brian Buckner Brian Buckner is an American television writer, mostly known for his work on sit-coms such as Spin City and Friends. He is currently serving as co-executive producer of the HBO vampire series True Blood... , Sebastian Jones Sebastian Jones Sebastian Jones is an American television producer and writer.His credits include Friends, Spin City and Stark Raving Mad, working with fellow producer and writer Brian Buckner in the aforementioned series. Jones and Buckner then parted ways in 2005... |
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| During Halloween, Ian helps Henry to pay back his cousin Lori for an old prank she pulled on him, while Maddie's date may or may not be a humpback for real. | |||||||||
| 6 | 1ADM04 | Fish out of Water | November 4, 1999 | Ted Wass | Jeffrey Richman Jeffrey Richman -Producer:* Stacked:* Frasier: executive producer* Charlie Lawrence : executive producer* Stark Raving Mad : co-executive producer* Wings : producer-Writer:* Stacked: 1 episode, 2005... |
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| Everyone is at Audrey's dinner party where a fish needs to be put back into the tank. | |||||||||
| 7 | 1ADM07 | Engaged to Be Engaged | November 11, 1999 | Gayle Abrams | |||||
| Henry tries to make a commitment to Tess. | |||||||||
| 8 | 1ADM09 | The Stalker | November 18, 1999 | Ken Levine Ken Levine (TV personality) Ken Levine is a writer, director and producer in the television and film industry. Levine has worked on a number of television series, including M*A*S*H, Cheers, Frasier, The Simpsons, Wings, Everybody Loves Raymond, Becker and Dharma and Greg... |
Steven Levitan | ||||
| Ian's obsessed fan wants to take Henry's place. | |||||||||
| 9 | 1ADM08 | The Dance | December 2, 1999 | Gail Mancuso | Steven Levitan | ||||
| Tess attempts to fix up Ian and Maddie. | |||||||||
| 10 | 1ADM02 | Coffin to Go | December 9, 1999 | Ted Wass | Lynnie Greene Lynnie Greene Lynda "Lynnie" Greene, also known as "Lyn Greene" is an actress, writer, director and producer in the television industry.-Career:... , Richard Levine |
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| Ian discovers that the funeral place accidentally sold him a coffin with a corpse in it. | |||||||||
| 11 | 1ADM10 | Christmas Cheerleader | December 16, 1999 | Michael Lembeck Michael Lembeck Michael Lembeck is an actor, television and film director.Lembeck was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Caroline and Harvey Lembeck, an actor and comedian. He began acting in the late-1960s and directing in the 1970s. His most notable acting role was as Julie Cooper's husband, Max Horvath, on... |
David A. Goodman | ||||
| Tess tries to cheer up Christmas for a bunch of social outcasts. | |||||||||
| 12 | 1ADM11 | The Crush | January 6, 2000 | Michael Lembeck | Eric Zicklin | ||||
| Ian has a crush on a woman, but Jake cannot be trusted with letters. | |||||||||
| 13 | 1ADM12 | My Bodyguard (a.k.a. Guarding Tess) | January 13, 2000 | Gayle Adams | Steven Levitan | ||||
| Henry, Ian and Tess get mugged. Ian head-butts the mugger and saves the day. Henry soon feels sexually inadequate when he learns that Ian's heroics caused Tess to have an erotic dream about Ian. Ian sets up a similar incident, designed to make Henry look like a hero in Tess' eyes. | |||||||||
| 14 | 1ADM15 | The Hypnotist | February 3, 1999 | Michael Lembeck | Alan Kirschenbaum | ||||
| Ian professes to be a hypnotic expert and the situation gets out of hand. | |||||||||
| 15 | 1ADM16 | Therapy | March 2, 2000 | Sheldon Epps Sheldon Epps Sheldon Epps is an American television and theatre director.-Career:Sheldon Epps was born in Los Angeles, California. He moved to Teaneck, New Jersey when he was 11 years old, where he attended the local public schools, and was first drawn to the stage while at Teaneck High School... |
Eric Zicklin | ||||
| 16 | 1ADM18 | Secrets and Lies | March 9, 2000 | David Lee David Lee (screenwriter) David Lee is an American television producer, director and screenwriter. He was a writer and producer for the American sitcoms The Jeffersons and Cheers, as well as being a co-creator, writer and director for Wings and Frasier... |
Jeffrey Richman | ||||
| A Yale student turns up some shocking secrets about where Ian was nearly twenty years ago. | |||||||||
| 17 | 1ADM21 | The Grade | March 16, 2000 | Steven Levitan | Brian Buckner, Sebastian Jones | ||||
| Ian helps Maddie by writing a book report for her, but then is furious when her professor only gives her a "B". | |||||||||
| 18 | 1ADM17 | The Pigeon | July 13, 2000 | Sheldon Epps | Joe Piscatella, Craig A. Williams | ||||
| Ian accidentally knocks a pigeon's nest filled with eggs off his balcony's ledge. Later he becomes paranoid, thinking the mother pigeon is back with vengeance. | |||||||||
| 19 | 1ADM13 | He's Gotta Have It | July 20, 2000 | Joyce Gittlin | Lynnie Greene, Richard Levine | ||||
| 20 | 1ADM14 | Dog Gone | July 27, 2000 | Gail Mancuso | Brian Buckner, Sebastian Jones | ||||
| 21 | 1ADM19 | The Psychic | August 3, 2000 | Jeff Melman Jeff Melman Jeffrey L. Melman is an American television director and producer. Melman has directed for several present-day network television series. More recently Melman has directed episodes of ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and Desperate Housewives... |
Dana Gould Dana Gould Dana John Gould is an American comedian and comedy writer born and raised in Hopedale, Massachusetts. His upbringing and his extended family lent themselves to his stand-up routine, which has been seen on HBO, Showtime, and Comedy Central, among other places.-Career:After high school, he studied... |
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| 22 | 1ADM20 | The Big Finish | August 10, 2000 | Robert Egan | Richard Levine, Lynnie Greene | ||||