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Martin Tupper's a recently divorced book editor in Manhattan. Martin's life is filled with fantasies and sexual thoughts, many times coming in the form of black-and-white shots from old TV shows and films.

Charlie married into money. He's now a successful lawyer with a sexy young secretary/mistress and he wants out. A prenuptial rules out divorce. Is there such a thing as a perfect murder?

Martin accidentally finds himself dating a controlling, unstable woman.

Bored after breaking up with Nina, Martin is phoning anybody and everybody, when he accidentally takes a call meant for the suicide helpline. The caller is Irma, who he somehow persuades not to 'do the deed', while his apartment is filling up with his associates. Then they leave! This may not be the most entertaining plot summary in the world but it IS what happens.

Martin's mother gets a facelift.

Martin, Eddie and Judith spend a weekend at a cabin with their old college friends. Passions spark and secrets are revealed. Martin fusses over a 20 year old misdeed.

Martin has a one night stand with a politicians wife and his world is turned upside down.

While helping Judith attend a Lamaze class, Martin sees an old girlfriend and starts up a new relationship. Things seem to be going well until her baby's daddy shows up at the door.

Whitestone is bought by Australians.

After being admonished by an old school friend, for not becoming a famous writer, Martin feels galvanized to pick up the quill again - but are his central characters a little too close to home?

Martin meets Elliot Sterns, an author he admires, and persuades him to let him be his editor with a new book, after a fruitless period of ten silent years. Only to find out that Elliot is out of words and full of cheap lies.

Jeremy has a new girlfriend, a "bad girl", and Martin disapproves but when he meets her mother, he himself realizes that bad girls can be quite seductive.

Jeremy meets a girl and asks Eddie if he could take her to his place. Eddie agrees but they keep it secret from Martin who still thinks Jeremy is "a kid".

Martin gets blinded by hot cheese and has to stay in the hospital for a couple of days with his eyes tied. There, without actually seeing her, he falls for a nurse with whom he shares a common love for old movies.

Martin's sister invites him to her very private wedding asking him not to tell their parents. Martin can't seem to keep his mouth shut and the parents not only invite themselves but they mean to have the wedding their way.

Martin finds a joint in Jeremy's room.

Martin and Eddie meet Alisha at an awards banquet and end up in her hotel room.

Martin's relation with Kate is dreamy except for the sex where there seems to be space for improvement.

Can book editor Martin Tupper's day get any worse? It starts with a dose from an exterminator at 6:30AM, then losing his coat in a cab door, and progresses to being assaulted by a zoftig female author whose book he rejected. His pal Eddie fixes him up with a amorous 20 year old, but movie-mad Martin ends up in an ER.

Eddie gets fired, Martin is not happy with his job and the two pals think of starting a new magazine together.

Martins new boss puts him in several compromising positions.

Martin gets involved with Carmella, Judith's beautiful maid, and even though Carmella herself is happy with her job, Martin isn't and that complicates things.

Toby is distressed after her cat dies and Martin thinks that a new pet might help her move forward.

Martins solicits an author dying of AIDS to write his final book, and ends up befriending him.