STARK RAVING MAD (TV SERIES)

'''Stark Raving Mad''' was the name of a short-lived NBC sitcom that aired from 1999-2000. It starred Tony Shalhoub as eccentric horror novelist Ian Stark, who is obsessed with practical jokes; Neil Patrick Harris as Stark's reluctant editor Henry McNeeley, who suffers from a variety of phobias and possibly obsessive-compulsive disorder; and Eddie McClintock, in a supporting role as Jake Donovan. 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. After the show's cancellation Shalhoub moved on to a starring role in the TV series ''Monk'' -- a role not unlike Harris's role in ''Stark Raving Mad''.

Contents

Cast

Credited cast

Recurring cast

Trivia

Episode list

Sources

External links

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

Trivia

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

★ In other countries the series was re-named; ''Stark Raving Mad'' (USA, France), ''Stark, loco de atar'' (Spain), ''Männer ohne Nerven'' (Germany) and ''Kreisi kynäniekka'' (Finland).

Episode list

#	Prod. code	Title	Airdate	Director	Writer(s)
1	1ADM79	'Pilot'	23 Sep 99	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'	30 Sep 99	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'	7 Oct 99	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'	14 Oct 99	Gail Mancuso	Eric Zicklin
Henry accidentally kills a man named Professor Huggles (a character obviously inspired by Dr.Seuss)
5	1ADM06	'The Lyin' King'	21 Oct 99	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'	4 Nov 99	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'	11 Nov 99	Gail Mancuso	Gayle Abrams
8	1ADM09	'The Stalker'	18 Nov 99	Ken Levine	Steven Levitan
Ian's obsessed fan wants to take Henry's place.
9	1ADM08	'The Dance'	2 Dec 99	Gail Mancuso	Steven Levitan
Tess attempts to fix up Ian and Maddie.
10	1ADM02	'Coffin to Go'	9 Dec 99	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'	16 Dec 99	Michael Lembeck	David A. Goodman
12	1ADM11	'The Crush'	6 Jan 00	Michael Lembeck	Eric Zicklin
13	1ADM12	'My Bodyguard (a.k.a. Guarding Tess)'	13 Jan 00	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'	3 Feb 00	Michael Lembeck	Alan Kirschenbaum
Ian professes to be a hypnotic expert and the situation gets out of hand.
15	1ADM16	'Therapy'	2 Mar 00	Sheldon Epps	Eric Zicklin
16	1ADM18	'Secrets and Lies'	9 Mar 00	David Lee	Jeffrey Richman
A Yale student turns up some shocking secrets about where Ian was nearly twenty years ago.
17	1ADM21	'The Grade'	16 Mar 00	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'	13 Jul 00	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'		Joyce Gittlin	Lynnie Greene, Richard Levine
20	1ADM14	'Dog Gone'		Gail Mancuso	Brian Buckner, Sebastian Jones
21	1ADM19	'The Psychic'		Jeff Melman	Dana Gould
22	1ADM20	'The Big Finish'		Robert Egan	Richard Levine, Lynnie Greene

Sources

★ TV.com episode guide

★ Epguides guide

External links

★ TKtv info

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