Working - Season 1
1 - Pilot
Air Date: October 8, 1997
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: October 15, 1997
Matt catches the ""close-quarters syndrome"" and starts dating a daffy co-worker who's really not his type.
3 - Rumoring
Air Date: October 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
Air Date: November 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
Air Date: November 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
Air Date: November 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
Air Date: December 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
Air Date: December 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
Air Date: December 17, 1997
Hal's chauvinistic boss submits a sexy photo of her for the company's pinup calendar.
10 - The Breakfast
Air Date: January 7, 1998
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: January 14, 1998
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: January 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
Air Date: January 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
Air Date: February 4, 1998
Matt is challenged to prove he has the right stuff by firing an inept temp.
15 - Mum's The Word
Air Date: February 25, 1998
Matt ends up babysitting a coworker's little terrors to protect her from Deale's vindictiveness.
16 - As Bad As It Gets
Air Date: March 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
Air Date: March 25, 1998
Tired of being taken advantage of, the staff, with Matt as their leader, goes on strike.
18 - The Gold Digger
Air Date: April 1, 1998
A co-worker shows interest in Matt after he's enrolled in a management-trainee program.
19 - Equality
Air Date: April 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
Air Date: April 29, 1998
Perfectly honest Matt has to ""massage the truth"" when Abby asks why he won't date her.
21 - Due Process
Air Date: May 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
Air Date: May 13, 1998
Tim tires of being a ""money-grubbing, care-only-for-myself phony"" and quits his job.