The BEST episodes written by Jeffrey Lane

#1 - Up in Smoke (2)

Mad About You - Season 3 - Episode 24

#2 - Surprise

Mad About You - Season 2 - Episode 8

Jamie suspects a surprise party waiting for her at home. However, that's not what Paul has arranged for her birthday. They then get separated on the subway en route to the surprise.

#3 - Disorientation

Mad About You - Season 2 - Episode 21

The night before Jamie returns to school she worries that Paul might not support her fully. In the morning, before Jamie leaves, Paul realizes that he has forgotten to mail her registration.

#4 - Virtual Reality

Mad About You - Season 2 - Episode 15

Paul invests in a startup venture, bringing out a virtual-reality system with Ira, after a demo but without consulting Jamie, who reacts calmly to his actions, both real and imagined.

#5 - Sunday Times

Mad About You - Season 1 - Episode 3

Paul and Jamie enjoy a quiet Sunday with nothing to do except decide what to do. However, they have to decide whether to see a movie, take in a parade or get to the museum before their friends' Sundays intrude.

#6 - The Painter

Mad About You - Season 1 - Episode 21

Jamie hires an ex-boyfriend, Sherman (guest star Rick Rossovich), to paint the apartment and is a bit annoyed when Paul is not concerned by the prospect of her old flame being alone with her. When Paul comes home from his job, he finds Sherman and Fran together in their bed having sex, because Fran is stressed over her move-out from Mark's apartment. So, Paul talks to Mark about their marriage. Jamie and Paul try to get them back together, but they decide to split up.

#7 - Same Time Next Week

Mad About You - Season 2 - Episode 13

Jamie and Paul must endure two months of separation when Paul has to shoot a film in Chicago, returning only for the weekends, weather permitting.

#8 - Escape from New York

Mad About You - Season 3 - Episode 1

A heatwave and the death of their air conditioner forces Paul and Jamie to find refreshment. They go out on the streets of NY, but find out that there it's even worse. Jaime convinces Paul that they should leave 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...

#9 - Cold Feet

Mad About You - Season 2 - Episode 16

A Valentine's Day story that begins with Jamie and Paul rink side at Rockefeller Center and moves back three years to the day they finally moved in together and ended up engaged.

#10 - Riding Backwards

Mad About You - Season 1 - Episode 9

On a trip to Connecticut to spend Thanksgiving with Jamie's parents, Paul and Jamie are doing fine, Mark and Fran begin to fight, while Selby and Lisa are just friends. However, on the return journey, everything is different.

#11 - Cake Fear

Mad About You - Season 3 - Episode 21

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.

#12 - The Man Who Said Hello

Mad About You - Season 1 - Episode 18

Paul's father has his 15 minutes of fame following an incident with Regis Philbin that embarrasses Paul. Events progress to a point where Paul is being viewed by the entire city as an over-reactive son.

#13 - How to Fall in Love

Mad About You - Season 3 - Episode 12

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.

#14 - With This Ring... (2)

Mad About You - Season 2 - Episode 25

The real marriage anniversary arrives and Jamie gives Paul a gift - a swiss military knife - and receives a gift from Paul - a machine for making sugar products. Both disappointed with their gifts, they go to a store where it turns out that they have totally different opinions about children. Then, when they have lunch with Paul's sister, they try to entertain Susan's son Nah while she's on the phone. Paul realizes that having kids is nothing different than having a dog, but Jamie has a totally different opinion.

#15 - Legacy

Mad About You - Season 3 - Episode 5

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.

#16 - The Roof

Dynasty - Season 3 - Episode 2

Michael goes to Denver to find out who he is. Alexis and Cecil plan a wedding in the hospital. Claudia disappears and Blake suspects her of kidnapping the baby. There's an exiting drama on the roof of a tall building. Claudia has the baby in her arms and refuses to give her away, thinking it's Lindsay. She finally throws the baby over the edge, but it turns out it was only a doll.

#17 - With This Ring... (1)

Mad About You - Season 2 - Episode 24

Paul finds Mark working in a local store. After he meets the owners of the shop, Kim & Tammy, Paul finds out that Mark is learning to pray Zen. While Mark is trying to make him join him in prayer, Paul finds out that he lost his wedding ring. Worried about what will jamie say, Paul rushes to the house to find it.

#18 - The Wedding

Dynasty - Season 3 - Episode 3

The baby is recovered from the real kidnapper, Alfred Grimes, and it turns out he's the father of Roger Grimes. Fallon fires Susan. Claudia leaves for a sanitarium. Fallon starts looking for a job. Blake gives her his hotel La Miranda. She and Michael meet, but without knowing they may be brother and sister. Michael seeks Blake but Blake rejects him when he says he's his son. Cecil and Alexis get married in the hospital, but Cecil dies a few minutes after the ""ceremony"".

#19 - Review

Lou Grant - Season 5 - Episode 12

Charlie becomes a member of a news council and finds one member who seems to have a grudge against him and the Tribune. Mrs. Pynchon asks Billie to help her write an autobiographical piece but refuses to talk about one important subject: her taking over from her late husbands at the newspaper.