Season 3, Episode 8: Lows in the Mid-Eighties
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Aired: Thursday, November 23, 2000
Rating: 10.8/19
Special one-hour episode
Quotes
Credits
Written by Jeff Greenstein
Directed by James Burrows
Special guest star Debbie Reynolds as Bobbi Adler
Guest starring
Tom Gallop as Rob
Leigh-Allyn Baker as Ellen
Ever Carradine as Pam
Sara Rue as Joyce
Co-starring
Neil Vipond as Julius
Raymond Forchion as Clayton
Michael D. Trail as guy
Scott Berman as Dontonio
Special guest appearance by Martina Navratilova as herself
This episode was nominated for five Emmys, including Outstanding Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series, Outstanding Costumes for a Series, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Series, and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. It won for Outstanding Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series.
Director James Burrows won a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series for 2000. Unit Production Manager Tim Kaiser, First Assistant Director Dale White, Second Assistant Director Caryn Rae Shick, and Technical Coordinator Russell D. Sherman were also named in the award.
Jim Burrows, three-time DGA Award winner, with his seventeenth nomination retains the title he took last year as the most nominated director when his sixteenth nomination for the "Yours, Mine, Ours" episode of Will & Grace broke his 1998 tie with George Schaefer. Burrows's first nomination came in 1981 for the Taxi episode "Jim the Psychic." In all, he was a ten-time nominee and two-time DGA Award winner for Cheers; in 1982, 1983 (winner), 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990 (winner), 1991 and 1992. He also won the DGA Award in 1993 for directing the pilot of Frasier, and was nominated in 1995 for the Friends episode "The One With the Birth," in 1997 for the pilot of Dharma and Greg and in 1998 for the pilot of Will & Grace.
This makes Jim Burrows a four-time DGA Award winner. It was his seventeenth nomination which retains the title he took last year as the most nominated director when his sixteenth nomination for the "Yours, Mine, Ours" episode of Will & Grace broke his 1998 tie with George Schaefer. Burrows' first nomination came in 1981 for the Taxi episode "Jim the Psychic." In all, he was a ten-time nominee and two-time DGA Award winner for Cheers; in 1982, 1983 (winner), 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990 (winner), 1991 and 1992. He also won the DGA Award in 1993 for directing the pilot of Frasier, and was nominated in 1995 for the Friends episode "The One With the Birth," in 1997 for the pilot of Dharma and Greg and in 1998 for the pilot of Will & Grace.
Patty Bunch and Karen Kawahara were nominated for a Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award in the category of Best Period Makeup, Series for this episode.
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