Working - Season 1

First aired: 10/8/1997 22 episodes

Episodes

1. Pilot

Aired: 10/8/1997

Matthew Peyser starts his new job, only to learn that the office is filled with people that do nothing â€“ and he gets promoted because his portfolio is switched with another workers'.

2. Close Quarters

Aired: 10/15/1997

Matt catches the ""close-quarters syndrome"" and starts dating a daffy co-worker who's really not his type.

3. Rumoring

Aired: 10/29/1997

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

Aired: 11/5/1997

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

Aired: 11/12/1997

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

Aired: 11/19/1997

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

Aired: 12/3/1997

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

Aired: 12/10/1997

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

Aired: 12/17/1997

Hal's chauvinistic boss submits a sexy photo of her for the company's pinup calendar.

10. The Breakfast

Aired: 1/7/1998

A member of Senior Management invites Matt to breakfast â€“ 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

Aired: 1/14/1998

When Tim's wife leaves him, Matt becomes the victim â€“ 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

Aired: 1/21/1998

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

Aired: 1/28/1998

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

Aired: 2/4/1998

Matt is challenged to prove he has the right stuff by firing an inept temp.

15. Mum's The Word

Aired: 2/25/1998

Matt ends up babysitting a coworker's little terrors to protect her from Deale's vindictiveness.

16. As Bad As It Gets

Aired: 3/18/1998

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

Aired: 3/25/1998

Tired of being taken advantage of, the staff, with Matt as their leader, goes on strike.

18. The Gold Digger

Aired: 4/1/1998

A co-worker shows interest in Matt after he's enrolled in a management-trainee program.

19. Equality

Aired: 4/15/1998

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

Aired: 4/29/1998

Perfectly honest Matt has to ""massage the truth"" when Abby asks why he won't date her.

21. Due Process

Aired: 5/6/1998

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

Aired: 5/13/1998

Tim tires of being a ""money-grubbing, care-only-for-myself phony"" and quits his job.