Working
Working

Working (1997)

4.72 seasonsComedy

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 & Episodes

Season 122 episodes
Pilot

1. Pilot

30 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'.

Close Quarters

2. Close Quarters

30 min

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

Rumoring

3. Rumoring

30 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.

Quick Out Of The Gate

4. Quick Out Of The Gate

30 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.

Sexual Harassment

5. Sexual Harassment

30 min

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

Lost Weekend

6. Lost Weekend

30 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.

Creative Matt

7. Creative Matt

30 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.

Top O' The World Ma

8. Top O' The World Ma

30 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.

Medieval Christmas

9. Medieval Christmas

30 min

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

The Breakfast

10. The Breakfast

30 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.

Enemies: A Love Story

11. Enemies: A Love Story

30 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.

Sam I Am

12. Sam I Am

30 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.

Boys Club

13. Boys Club

30 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.

Hatchet Man

14. Hatchet Man

30 min

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

Mum's The Word

15. Mum's The Word

30 min

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

As Bad As It Gets

16. As Bad As It Gets

30 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.

Labor Pains

17. Labor Pains

30 min

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

The Gold Digger

18. The Gold Digger

30 min

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

Equality

19. Equality

30 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.

The Lying Game

20. The Lying Game

30 min

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

Due Process

21. Due Process

30 min

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

The Brown Noser

22. The Brown Noser

30 min

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

Season 217 episodes
Home-O-Apathy

1. Home-O-Apathy

30 min

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.

The Closer

2. The Closer

30 min

Matt is shocked to learn that Tim set him up to sleep with a client in order to land an account.

Armageddon Outta Here

3. Armageddon Outta Here

30 min

Matt forgoes research and follows his instincts for his latest project. But his plan brings a company satellite hurtling toward the building.

Performance Review

4. Performance Review

30 min

Matt's honest self-evaluation inspires Tim to have Matt write them for fellow staffers as well.

Good Val Hunting

5. Good Val Hunting

30 min

Val gets promoted after solving a complex math equation that's baffled company accountants.

Networking

6. Networking

30 min

Matt literally pushes corporate climber Liz over the edge at an executives' mountain retreat.

A Boy, A Girl, And His Bird

7. A Boy, A Girl, And His Bird

30 min

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The Consultant

8. The Consultant

30 min

Management brings in a consultant who's going to turn the team into ""a lean, mean white-collar machine.""

Greenery

9. Greenery

30 min

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.

The Christmas Party

10. The Christmas Party

30 min

Matt defies the edict about ""no secretaries"" at the company Christmas party by inviting Val as his guest.

Romeo and Julie

11. Romeo and Julie

30 min

In a spoof of Romeo and Juliet, Matt falls for a woman who works for Tim's archenemy in the company.

The Retreat

12. The Retreat

30 min

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.

The Prodigy

13. The Prodigy

30 min

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.

Manifesto Destiny

14. Manifesto Destiny

30 min

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.

The Other Executive

15. The Other Executive

30 min

Tim gets jealous when Matt befriends another executive.

She Loves Me, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

16. She Loves Me, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

30 min

Tim's daughter returns to Upton/Webber and becomes the ""Yoko Ono"" of the gang by clouding Matt's ability to make good decisions.

Sliding Doors

17. Sliding Doors

30 min

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?

Cast

Fred Savage

Fred Savage

Matt Peyser

Maurice Godin

Maurice Godin

Tim Deale

Yvette Freeman

Yvette Freeman

Evelyn Smalley

Arden Myrin

Arden Myrin

Abby Cosgrove

Steve Hytner

Steve Hytner

John Delaney

Rebecca McFarland

Rebecca McFarland

Val Gibson

Debi Mazar

Debi Mazar

Liz Tricoli

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