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22 Episodes 1999 - 2000
Episode 1
Thu, Sep 23, 1999
Phobic book editor Henry McNeely reluctantly takes a job editing eccentric horror author Ian Stark's new manuscript.
Episode 2
Thu, Sep 30, 1999
Ian goes snooping and discovers disturbing details about Henry's sex life.
Episode 3
Thu, Oct 7, 1999
When Ian renames a character in his latest novel, Henry concludes that he's in love with the waitress by that name. Meanwhile, Maddie's professor presumes that she's hot for him.
Episode 4
Thu, Oct 14, 1999
When a beloved children's author dies of complications from the common cold, Henry believes that he's responsible.
Episode 5
Thu, Oct 21, 1999
During Halloween, Ian helps Henry pay back his cousin Lori for an old prank she pulled on him; Maddie's date might or might not be an actual humpback.
Episode 6
Thu, Nov 4, 199930 mins
Henry plans to dazzle the other guests at a dinner party, but complications arise when Tess falls ill and Ian plays a practical joke with the host's prized fish.
Episode 7
Thu, Nov 11, 199930 mins
After Henry and Tess announce that they're "engaged to be engaged," a practical joke gone wrong leaves Tess believing that Henry slept with Maddie. Meanwhile, Jake uses Ian's dog Edgar to try to pick up women.
Episode 8
Thu, Nov 18, 199930 mins
Ian befriends a creepy fan who threatens to replace Henry.
Episode 9
Thu, Dec 2, 199930 mins
Tess attempts to fix up Ian and Maddie.
Episode 10
Thu, Dec 9, 1999
The coffin that Ian buys as a conversation piece for his living room arrives--complete with a corpse.
Episode 11
Thu, Dec 16, 199930 mins
Tess tries to cheer up Christmas for a bunch of social outcasts.
Episode 12
Thu, Jan 6, 200030 mins
Ian develops a crush on a girl he keeps seeing in the bar, but it's Jake who winds up in her bed.
Episode 13
Thu, Jan 13, 200030 mins
When Ian, Henry, and Tess go out, they are nearly mugged and Ian saves them. Tess can't help but be turned on by his actions and even dreams about him, which drives Henry mad. Ian and Jake try to make Henry be the hero by letting him smack a guy in front of Tess--only it's Tess who does the smacking.
Episode 14
Thu, Feb 3, 200030 mins
Jake and Tess vanish after Ian hypnotizes them into believing that they're Romeo and Juliet.
Episode 15
Thu, Mar 2, 200030 mins
After Ian and Henry go to a therapist, Henry wants to know what the therapist told about him, and Ian lies that she thinks Henry is paranoid.
Episode 16
Thu, Mar 9, 200030 mins
A young intern begins snooping around in Ian's past.
Episode 17
Thu, Mar 16, 200030 mins
Ian helps Maddie with a paper for her English class. But when the professor gives her a low grade, Ian confronts the man to the point of saying he wrote the paper which lands Maddie in hot water, so Henry must try to convince the professor that Maddie did write it and the man claiming to be Ian Stark is a impostor.
Episode 18
Thu, Jul 13, 200030 mins
Through a friend, Tess arranges for Ian to meet with her father, an author Ian admires. But when he accidentally knocks a pigeon's nest which had eggs in it off the ledge, Jake warns him that the pigeon will be after him, which he ignores. But when he thinks the pigeon is following him wherever he goes, he doesn't think he will be OK for his meeting with the author. Meanwhile, Maddie finds a mink in the bar and decides to wear it.
Episode 19
Thu, Jul 20, 200030 mins
Henry throws Tess a birthday party and invites her sister without knowing that the two don't get along. When her sister and Ian go at it, literally, Tess feels that she's just trying to upstage her, and when she lets her sister know that, she retaliates by banging Ian more.
Episode 20
Thu, Jul 27, 200030 mins
Henry loses Ian's dog Edgar and tries to find him by putting up a flyer with the dog's picture on it. Shortly afterward, a woman who saw the flyer claims that Edgar is her dog whom she lost around the same time Ian found him, and she wants him back. Ian tries to make Edgar less desirable so that she won't take him.
Episode 21
Thu, Aug 3, 200030 mins
The gang goes to see a psychic doorman whose predictions come true, causing Henry to worry about "traveling and blood" in his future.
Episode 22
Thu, Aug 10, 200030 mins
Ian has just finished his book but refuses to give it to his publisher; Henry, who's being pressured by the publisher to submit it, is egged on by Maddie and Jake to just take it, which he does. Later, Ian wants it back but Henry has already submitted it, so Ian goes to her office to get it--as does Henry, who's worried that she might not like the job he did on it.