Spin City
Season 1
24 episodes
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S01E01 Pilot
In the pilot, New York's deputy mayor Michael Flaherty finds himself trying to keep the lid on an impending sanitation-workers strike and some politically incorrect remarks made by his boss.
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S01E02 The Great Pretender
After the public dubs him "the sexiest man in New York," Mike finds he has some trouble---in private---living up to his new title.
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S01E03 The Apartment
Mike's chances for quality time with Ashley are spoiled by his round-the-clock negotiations with the sanitation-workers union.
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S01E04 Pride and Prejudice
Mike puts his foot in his mouth during a TV interview by making offhand remarks about Ashley's reporting abilities.
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S01E05 The Rivals
A confrontation between Mayor Winston and a former mayor has grave results when the ex-official expires in the middle of the spat.
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S01E06 A Star Is Born
A plan to raise the mayor's approval rating goes up in smoke after one of his appointees is accused of having smoked marijuana in the '70s.
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S01E07 Grand Illusion
Carter vows to protest the mayor's stand on gay marriages by staging his own wedding---to Nikki.
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S01E08 The High and the Mighty
Mike's the toast of the office when he constructs a deal with a real-estate developer that benefits an ailing retirement home.
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S01E09 Meet Tommy Dugan
The mayor's office is at a loss for words when it's discovered that the winner of a student essay contest is a school janitor.
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S01E10 The Competition
There's fowl play afoot as the mayor's office and city council turn a Thanksgiving charity event into a competition.
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S01E11 Dog Day Afternoon
After the mayor is hounded for not showing the police department respect, Mike decides to have him deliver the eulogy for a police canine.
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S01E12 Criss Cross
When a head cold keeps the mayor from appearing on a debate show, Mike goes instead...and must face off against Ashley. Meanwhile, everyone tries to pick Carter's brain for relationship advice.
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S01E13 Bye Bye Love
After his relationship with Ashley abruptly ends over the holidays, Mike returns to work, brave face intact. But the gang worries that he's just masking his pain.
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S01E14 Starting Over
Mike's throwing himself into his work since his breakup, so his staff encourages him to start dating again.
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S01E15 Gabby's Song
Mike welcomes the city council's new chief of staff with open arms. But he's soon up in arms when he realizes that she'll be keeping him on his toes.
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S01E16 Kiss Me, Stupid
Carter's heart skips a beat on Valentine's Day when his former love sets him straight about a few things---like the fact that he's engaged to a woman.
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S01E17 An Affair to Remember
Mike wants the mayor's birthday gala to be an affair to remember, but rumors of another kind of affair may end the party before it begins.
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S01E18 Snowbound
In the middle of a snowstorm, Mike's dream girl from high school arrives and invites him to her hotel; and Paul unwittingly insults the mayor on live radio.
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S01E19 Striptease
Mike gets a surprise when he finds out that the law-school student he's been dating moonlights as an exotic dancer.
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S01E20 Deaf Becomes Her
Mike tries to keep a hearing-impaired activist from organizing a rally at City Hall after the Mayor's office is embarrassed twice by incidents involving deaf people.
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S01E21 Hot in the City
Mike and his girlfriend decide to break up, but Mike gets a surprise when he learns that she has frozen his sperm.
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S01E22 Bone Free
The mayor is in trouble again: this time because it appears that he refused to shake the hand of the new president of a women's caucus.
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S01E23 The Mayor Who Came to Dinner
The mayor moves in with Mike, following a blowup with his wife. Meanwhile, Carter takes up with designer Isaac Mizrahi, who's working on a fashion-show benefit.
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S01E24 Mayor Over Miami
The mayor's down in the dumps, and decides that a little adventure is in order, so he takes off for Miami with Paul---without telling anyone.
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