Ned and Stacey
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 11, 1995
Self-centered ad exec Ned allows liberal journalist Stacey to share his apartment on one condition: that she marry him.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 11, 1995
Self-centered ad exec Ned allows liberal journalist Stacey to share his apartment on one condition: that she marry him.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1995
The "happy newlyweds" get their first chance to see if they can pull off the deception when Ned invites clients to the apartment for drinks.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1995
Stacey finds herself in the unusual position of "cheating" on Ned---after he encourages her to pursue an attractive man she meets in a bar.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1995
Stacey sinks her teeth into an exposé on an ice-cream mogul who's being unfriendly to the environment. Trouble is, he's a client of Ned's.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1995
Eric thinks he's being a model husband when he admits that he's spending the night with the beautiful spokesperson Ned's hired for a commercial.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1995
Ned and Stacey have to do some quick shuffling when Stacey's parents drop by while the newlyweds each have a date over.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1995
Ned discovers that he shares an interest in horticulture with Stacey's childhood neighbor, and romance blossoms.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1995
Ned and Stacey accidentally share a passionate kiss, then wonder what to do when they realize they liked it.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1995
Stacey's debts leave her hopelessly devoted---to the bank, which wants its money tout de suite.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1995
It's a turkey of a Thanksgiving for Stacey, who gets depressed that "instead of a husband, I've got Ned!".
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1995
Stacey badgers Ned into going shopping with her for a bed; but when the only one she likes is already sold, Ned bribes the salesman.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1995
The couple begin fighting over their new friend, who's been hanging out with Ned and dating Stacey.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1995
Ned fears he'll lose an important account unless he gives in to a client who's trying to seduce him.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1996
Ned hopes that Stacey is never brought to mind when she opts to forgo the New Year's Eve party he throws for his co-workers.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1996
Ned fears that the young neophyte the agency hired is after his job, especially after he's ordered to take a vacation.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1996
A publishing bigwig promises to look over Stacey's qualifications as a journalist, but it's Ned's talents that stop the presses.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1996
Amanda can't resist asking Ned to put in a good word for Eric, who's up for a promotion to head of the accounting department.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1996
Stacey asks Ned to act like the perfect husband for the benefit of her high-school arch rival, who's visiting the couple.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1996
A gay client of Ned's discovers the couple's separate bedrooms and becomes convinced that Ned is not out of the closet.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1996
Ned enters the hospital for gallbladder surgery, but his lack of guts may keep him from going under the knife.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1996
A TV star looking to buy property in New York has a different kind of move in mind after he meets Amanda.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1996
Stacey moves out after Amanda urges her to "stop complaining about your life and do something."
Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1996
Ned overextends himself at a poker game and wagers a night with Stacey to cover his bet on a great hand.
Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1996
Fifty bucks says Stacey can find a better woman for Ned than any man he could find for her. Ned wins the bet but may lose his "wife" to the guy she's fallen for.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1996
Ned and Stacey split up, but Ned finds it easier getting Stacey out of the apartment than out of his system.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1996
Stacey hires a lawyer, who informs Ned that the couple's prenuptial agreement is null and void.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1996
Ned and Amanda become partners in a real-estate deal that calls for them to close a muffin shop. But Ned can't bring himself to put the bakery's elderly employees out of work.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Dec 15, 1996
Stacey takes a byte out of Ned's ego when when of his clients runs with one of her ideas for a computer that feeds hungry kittens.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Dec 22, 1996
Les threatens to reveal Ned's fake marriage unless Ned can put the reins on Eric, who's reporting Les's exorbitant expense account.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1996
Amanda walks out of the muffin shop on Ned, but returns after he promises to remain a silent partner. Fat chance.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Jan 5, 1997
Ned humiliates Eric in front of a group of clients, leading Eric to think he and Ned should "cool it for a while" as friends.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1997
Amanda becomes a sensation when she stars in a low-budget commercial for the muffin shop.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1997
Amanda's new hire, Amy, has a crush on Ned. Amused, he agrees to a "date," but finds he's escorting her to her prom.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1997
Ned hires Christopher Hewett, who played Mr. Belvedere, to re-create the character in a commercial, but time seems to have swept away the actor's grasp of reality.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1997
Ned convinces Eric to join him on a trip to Nepal, but an apprehensive Eric takes flight at the airport. Meanwhile, Stacey takes over for Amanda at the muffin shop, just as the shop's pipes burst.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate:
Ned takes the low road as he tries to steal an idea from a competitor who wanders into the muffin shop. Meanwhile, Stacey's busy with an exposé on phone sex.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate:
Eric and Amanda see Diana with another man. Later, Ned sees stars while trying to get even and make her jealous.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate:
Stacey's ego does a nose dive when her editor picks apart the probing article she wrote for the airline magazine.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate:
Even Ned can't stand it when Diana hires Stacey as her assistant then takes every opportunity to humiliate the "errand girl."
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate:
Kirkland insists that Stacey attend a ski retreat, dashing Ned's plans to hit the slopes with the agency's office manager.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate:
Ned is riding high as Saul and Ellen's favorite son-in-law, until Amanda tells them the truth about Ned and Stacey's marriage.
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate:
The pressure is on Ned to create a killer campaign for a client's sponge, but the distractions quickly multiply after an accident forces him to return to his apartment, where Amanda and Eric are trying to conceive.
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate:
Ned volunteers to help reign in Eric's attractive new boss, who's been keeping the accountant late at the office juggling figures.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate:
Ned finds himself uncomfortably jealous when Stacey dates Chazz, and the two spend the night together.
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate:
Ned leaves Kirkland to start an advertising agency, and hires Lloyd Bridges as the spokeman for his first account.
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate:
After Stacey moves out, Ned pleads with her to attend one last dinner as his wife, in order to impress an important client.