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22 episodes

Working - Season 1

First aired Oct 8, 1997Season 1

Browse all 22 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Pilot

NR
Oct 8, 199730 min

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'.

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Episode 2

Close Quarters

NR
Oct 15, 199730 min

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

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Episode 3

Rumoring

NR
Oct 29, 199730 min

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.

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Episode 4

Quick Out Of The Gate

NR
Nov 5, 199730 min

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.

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Episode 5

Sexual Harassment

NR
Nov 12, 199730 min

A sexual harassment seminar transforms the staff into sexless zombies, putting a crimp into Matt's plans to date a new colleague.

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Episode 6

Lost Weekend

NR
Nov 19, 199730 min

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.

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Episode 7

Creative Matt

NR
Dec 3, 199730 min

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.

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Episode 8

Top O' The World Ma

NR
Dec 10, 199730 min

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.

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Episode 9

Medieval Christmas

NR
Dec 17, 199730 min

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

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Episode 10

The Breakfast

NR
Jan 7, 199830 min

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.

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Episode 11

Enemies: A Love Story

NR
Jan 14, 199830 min

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.

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Episode 12

Sam I Am

NR
Jan 21, 199830 min

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.

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Episode 13

Boys Club

NR
Jan 28, 199830 min

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.

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Episode 14

Hatchet Man

NR
Feb 4, 199830 min

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

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Episode 15

Mum's The Word

NR
Feb 25, 199830 min

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

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Episode 16

As Bad As It Gets

NR
Mar 18, 199830 min

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.

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Episode 17

Labor Pains

NR
Mar 25, 199830 min

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

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Episode 18

The Gold Digger

NR
Apr 1, 199830 min

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

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Episode 19

Equality

NR
Apr 15, 199830 min

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.

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Episode 20

The Lying Game

NR
Apr 29, 199830 min

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

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Episode 21

Due Process

NR
May 6, 199830 min

Matt tries to push a proposal that the company initiate a four-day work week, but runs into some serious bureaucratic stonewalling.

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Episode 22

The Brown Noser

NR
May 13, 199830 min

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