Working
Working is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1997 to 1999. The series was created and executive produced by Michael Davidoff and Bill Rosenthal.
Seasons
1. Pilot
Air Date: 1997-10-08
Matthew Peyser starts his new job, only to learn that the office is filled with people that do nothing – and he gets promoted because his portfolio is switched with another workers'.
2. Close Quarters
Air Date: 1997-10-15
Matt catches the ""close-quarters syndrome"" and starts dating a daffy co-worker who's really not his type.
3. Rumoring
Air Date: 1997-10-29
To up his value to the company, Matt starts a rumor that he's been offered a better job with another company, but his plan backfires.
4. Quick Out Of The Gate
Air Date: 1997-11-05
Matt's drive to become a valuable employee earns him a reprimand for making everyone else look bad. Meanwhile, Abby and Hal fight over the gorgeous latin copy guy.
5. Sexual Harassment
Air Date: 1997-11-12
A sexual harassment seminar transforms the staff into sexless zombies, putting a crimp into Matt's plans to date a new colleague.
6. Lost Weekend
Air Date: 1997-11-19
When Matt's father comes to spend a weekend with him, Tim makes them go all the weekend making Matt decide between working and spending the weekend with his father.
7. Creative Matt
Air Date: 1997-12-03
The office is invited to a party at Tim's house, and the bored staff convince a drunken Tim that Matt and the guy that he came to the party with are a gay couple. Tim uses this information to his own advantage by setting up Matt with his boss's son.
8. Top O' The World Ma
Air Date: 1997-12-10
When one of Matt's decisions costs the company big bucks, all of his decisions tends to disaster. Meanwhile, Delaney tries to pick up a girl at work.
9. Medieval Christmas
Air Date: 1997-12-17
Hal's chauvinistic boss submits a sexy photo of her for the company's pinup calendar.
10. The Breakfast
Air Date: 1998-01-07
A member of Senior Management invites Matt to breakfast – and then uses everything Matt says to form a case against Tim. Meanwhile, Evelyn replaces Jimmy with an ape and convinces Abbey that her job is in jeopardy.
11. Enemies: A Love Story
Air Date: 1998-01-14
When Tim's wife leaves him, Matt becomes the victim – Tim wants a buddy to talk to and Matt is the only one who can't come up with an airtight excuse not to hang out with him.
12. Sam I Am
Air Date: 1998-01-21
Matt goes out on a limb to help an old college buddy land a job, and soon comes to regret it when he won't show up.
13. Boys Club
Air Date: 1998-01-28
Deale casts for the new worker, with the Help of Matt. But he soons decides for one particular, chauvinist man. Until this new ""guy"" transforms into a woman. Tim fires her and then hires Matt dressed as a woman, so she stays with them, at least until the end of the season.
14. Hatchet Man
Air Date: 1998-02-04
Matt is challenged to prove he has the right stuff by firing an inept temp.
15. Mum's The Word
Air Date: 1998-02-25
Matt ends up babysitting a coworker's little terrors to protect her from Deale's vindictiveness.
16. As Bad As It Gets
Air Date: 1998-03-18
Matt puts a little danger in his life when he picks up an edgy beauty in a bar, only to learn that she is Tim's daughter, and that she's too much for him.
17. Labor Pains
Air Date: 1998-03-25
Tired of being taken advantage of, the staff, with Matt as their leader, goes on strike.
18. The Gold Digger
Air Date: 1998-04-01
A co-worker shows interest in Matt after he's enrolled in a management-trainee program.
19. Equality
Air Date: 1998-04-15
Matt helps a career woman shatter the company's glass ceiling, but the ""Old Boy Network"" of execs triples her workload in hopes that she'll crack under the pressure.
20. The Lying Game
Air Date: 1998-04-29
Perfectly honest Matt has to ""massage the truth"" when Abby asks why he won't date her.
21. Due Process
Air Date: 1998-05-06
Matt tries to push a proposal that the company initiate a four-day work week, but runs into some serious bureaucratic stonewalling.
22. The Brown Noser
Air Date: 1998-05-13
Tim tires of being a ""money-grubbing, care-only-for-myself phony"" and quits his job.
1. Home-O-Apathy
Air Date: 1998-09-22
On a trip to his old home town, Matt tries to make like a big man by making a big promise he can't possibly keep.
2. The Closer
Air Date: 1998-09-29
Matt is shocked to learn that Tim set him up to sleep with a client in order to land an account.
3. Armageddon Outta Here
Air Date: 1998-10-27
Matt forgoes research and follows his instincts for his latest project. But his plan brings a company satellite hurtling toward the building.
4. Performance Review
Air Date: 1998-11-03
Matt's honest self-evaluation inspires Tim to have Matt write them for fellow staffers as well.
5. Good Val Hunting
Air Date: 1998-11-10
Val gets promoted after solving a complex math equation that's baffled company accountants.
6. Networking
Air Date: 1998-11-17
Matt literally pushes corporate climber Liz over the edge at an executives' mountain retreat.
7. A Boy, A Girl, And His Bird
Air Date: 1998-12-01
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8. The Consultant
Air Date: 1998-12-08
Management brings in a consultant who's going to turn the team into ""a lean, mean white-collar machine.""
9. Greenery
Air Date: 1998-12-18
Corporate golden boy Matt literally turns green with envy when his college rival becomes the youngest vice president in the company's history. Also, Abby tries to shake her lily-white image by stealing something big from Upton/Webber.
10. The Christmas Party
Air Date: 1998-12-22
Matt defies the edict about ""no secretaries"" at the company Christmas party by inviting Val as his guest.
11. Romeo and Julie
Air Date: 1999-01-11
In a spoof of Romeo and Juliet, Matt falls for a woman who works for Tim's archenemy in the company.
12. The Retreat
Air Date: 1999-01-18
Matt plans a retreat to a resort where employees can bare their souls, but when they arrive, they find patrons baring something else: their bodies. So to get his group focused, Matt decides to get naked.
13. The Prodigy
Air Date: 1999-01-25
Matt is feeling mighty old after the firm hires a younger gun to provide the firm with Gen X insights; Delaney, in a shallow attempt to brown-nose, agrees to help the boss's daughter win a Sunflower Girl Cookie contest.
14. Manifesto Destiny
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Matt writes a position paper and realizes that it's very similar to Marx's ""Das Kapital"" after it has been distributed to the entire company. This paper makes him get fired.
15. The Other Executive
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Tim gets jealous when Matt befriends another executive.
16. She Loves Me, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
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Tim's daughter returns to Upton/Webber and becomes the ""Yoko Ono"" of the gang by clouding Matt's ability to make good decisions.
17. Sliding Doors
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What if Matt would have talked to the girl of his dreams?, maybe he could have gotten married... maybe the series would have had a happy ending, anyway... this episode was the last, and it ends with marriage... or not?
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Rating
4.7/10
Release Date
1997-10-08
Episodes
39 (2 seasons)
Status
Ended
