Ira and Lisa try to engineer the Buchman reconciliation, except it proves easier to resolve the scheduling conflict between Burt and Sylvia’s 45th anniversary party and Lisa’s engagement party.

Paul and Jamie take a walk through the park to talk their differences out by themselves. They succeed, and return to their apartment, where Jamie springs a surprise on Paul.

Nominated once again for the Silver Sprocket, a reluctant Paul is coaxed into a tuxedo by Ira and expects to attend the ceremony with Jamie at his side to counter…

After a week’s reflection and ignoring Ira’s emphatic advice not to, Paul decides to tell Jamie about his walk around the block with a female filmmaker he met at the…

Jamie undergoes a minor diagnostic procedure and is quite smitten by her doctor so as Fran. Meanwhile, Paul’s job is on the risk when the head people from his office…

Jamie tries to plan for a weekend getaway in Pennsylvania Dutch country, but Paul is preoccupied with his current documentary project about a weed to be interested. Meanwhile, Fran and…

The next step in the Buchman baby saga is trying to find out if Paul is the reason Jamie is unable to conceive. They rush to the hospital, but everything…

The saga of a daisy-chain of favors, triggered by the young daughter of Ira’s girlfriend wanting an autographed picture of the mayor, and complicated by Paul and his fancy new…

After talking to Fran, Ira and Mark the Buchamns realize that their friends are in a big fight due to Fran & Ira’s recent relationship so Jamie decides to take…

Ira resumes gambling, wins a lot, hands out generous presents and then takes a $4,000 bath–no problems for him, but a couple for the Buchmans.

Paul and Jamie embark on an organic fertility enhancement program with Mark’s help, plus a day off at a fancy local hotel at Fran’s suggestion.

Jamie tries a new look with interesting consequences, while Ira feels betrayed at the love game, let down by his quality wingman Paul, who digs himself a big hole discussing…

Jamie throws out her back during adventurous sex on the floor, leaving Paul to help out with her duties at City Hall while also trying to get his father to…

A night of cascading dreams of Paul and Jamie’s, featuring ostriches, ducks and a party with the frug, with lots of interpretation and a poem (and a half) by Henry…

Paul and Jamie are obliged to spend New Year’s Eve apart for the first time, but strange happenings in Times Square have a will and a way all their own.

Paul and Jamie try to time a love-in-the-afternoon rendezvous back at their apartment, but his family shows up at the most inopportune time, with Debbie springing a big surprise: she’s…

With Murray around, the Buchmans are no dinks, so when Lisa demurs they are obligated to hire a professional to walk Murray. And Murray seems to prefer the newcomer to…

Yoko Ono is in town for some film happenings and Paul tries to do something different for the Explorer Channel with her help.

Three lies, two shows and a realization as Jamie and Paul figure out “”why it will never happen”” to them, or so one is led to believe when their new…

A long wait at the bus stop leaves time for the Buchmans to take a Cosmopolitan marriage test. (Clip show).

Inspired by a Martha Stewart idea, Sylvia organizes a high-noonish tag-what-you-want lunch for her family, complete with a shoot-out in the kitchen with Jamie.

At first, Paul has only a vague notion he knows who Jamie’s interview at City Hall is with, but he figures it out and complicates matters when Jamie and Fran…

After a four year wait, the Buchmans finally have dibs on a parking space in a nearby garage, but still no car.

Jamie is enthralled by it, Paul doesn’t remember it, Murray didn’t see it, and Ira laughs at it–another night and the day after in the Buchmans’ lives. Meanwhile, Paul finds…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss’s fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante.

Paul and Jamie use his parents’ non-refundable package for a holiday in the Caribbean, telling tall tales in multiple languages.

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.

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.””

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 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…

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…

Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.

Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik’s heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway….

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.

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.