Stark Raving Mad

Stark Raving Mad Information

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.

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 phobias 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 despite having a 10.7 average household share and being ranked 15th among all programs.

Margaret 'Maddie' Keller was to be played by Jessica Cauffiel as she appears in several early cast photos.

Cast

Credited cast

Tony Shalhoub as Ian Stark
Neil Patrick Harris as Henry McNeeley
Eddie McClintock as Jake Donovan
Dorie Barton as Tess Farraday
Heather Paige Kent as Margaret 'Maddie' Keller

Recurring cast

Harriet Sansom Harris as Audrey
Chris Sarandon as Cesar
Dina Waters as Katherine 'Kit' Yates

Episode list

#	Prod. code	Title	Airdate	Director	Writer(s)
1	1ADM79	Pilot	September 23, 1999	James Burrows	Steven Levitan
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	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
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	Eric Zicklin
Henry accidentally kills a man named Professor Huggles (a character obviously inspired by Dr. Seuss)
5	1ADM06	The Lyin' King	October 21, 1999	Gail Mancuso	Brian Buckner, Sebastian Jones
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
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	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, Richard Levine
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	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. Note: Ian claims to have once suffered from OCD, but cured it with hypnosis. Tony Shalhoub would later find success in Monk, playing a detective with OCD.
15	1ADM16	Therapy	March 2, 2000	Sheldon Epps	Eric Zicklin

16	1ADM18	Secrets and Lies	March 9, 2000	David Lee	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	Dana Gould

22	1ADM20	The Big Finish	August 10, 2000	Robert Egan	Richard Levine, Lynnie Greene

International airings

In some countries the series was renamed: Stark, loco de atar (Spain), Männer ohne Nerven (Germany), Splitter Pine Gal (Norway), Kreisi kynäniekka (Finland) and "En förläggares mardröm" (Sweden).

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