Created by: Steven Levitan

Cast:
Tony Shalhoub – Ian Stark
Neil Patrick Harris – Henry McNeeley
Eddie McClintock – Jake Donovan
Dorie Barton – Tess Farraday
Heather Paige Kent – Margaret ‘Maddie’ Keller

Plot:
Stark Raving Mad is 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.

“Neil Patrick Harris proves himself an adept comic actor several years after hanging up his stethoscope as DOOGIE HOWSER, MD, as book editor Henry, a germophobic piece of white bread who finds himself teamed up with the premiere horror writer of the day, Ian Stark, a Satany looking fellow who finds happiness by terrorizing his hapless editor with prank after prank, assisted by the lead-skulled Jake (nicely played by Eddie McClintock).”
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