Show Info

Status: Ended
First Aired: September 17, 1996
Seasons: 6
Episodes: 145
Networks: ABC
Genres: Comedy, Drama

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Spin City(1996)
Comeback King
This show finished strong! The final season's average rating was higher than the previous one.

TMDB Rating: 7.0 (301 votes)

Overview

Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.

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Season 1

24 episodes • 1996Avg: 7.2

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Pilot	Sep 17, 1996	7.0
2	The Great Pretender	Sep 24, 1996	8.0
3	The Apartment	Oct 1, 1996	7.0
4	Pride and Prejudice	Oct 8, 1996	8.0
5	The Rivals	Oct 15, 1996	6.0
6	A Star is Born	Oct 22, 1996	7.0
7	Grand Illusion	Oct 29, 1996	7.0
8	The High and the Mighty	Nov 12, 1996	7.0
9	Meet Tommy Dugan	Nov 19, 1996	8.0
10	The Competition	Nov 26, 1996	7.0
11	Dog Day Afternoon	Dec 10, 1996	7.0
12	Criss Cross	Dec 17, 1996	7.0
13	Bye Bye Love	Jan 7, 1997	8.0
14	Starting Over	Jan 14, 1997	7.0
15	Gabby's Song	Jan 28, 1997	7.0
16	Kiss Me, Stupid	Feb 11, 1997	8.0
17	An Affair to Remember	Feb 18, 1997	7.0
18	Snowbound	Feb 25, 1997	7.0
19	Striptease	Mar 4, 1997	6.0
20	Deaf Becomes Her	Mar 18, 1997	7.0
21	Hot in the City	Apr 1, 1997	7.0
22	Bone Free	Apr 29, 1997	8.0
23	The Mayor Who Came to Dinner	May 6, 1997	7.0
24	Mayor Over Miami	May 13, 1997	7.0

Season 2

24 episodes • 1997Avg: 7.4

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Paul Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Sep 24, 1997	7.0
2	Porn in the U.S.A.	Oct 1, 1997	7.0
3	Wonder Woman	Oct 8, 1997	7.0
4	The Goodbye Girl	Oct 15, 1997	7.0
5	In the Heat of the Day	Oct 22, 1997	8.0
6	Radio Daze	Oct 29, 1997	8.0
7	The Thirty Year Itch	Nov 5, 1997	8.0
8	My Life is a Soap Opera	Nov 12, 1997	8.0
9	Family Affair (1)	Nov 19, 1997	7.0
10	Family Affair (2)	Nov 26, 1997	8.0
11	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Dec 10, 1997	8.0
12	Miracle Near 34th Street	Dec 17, 1997	7.5
13	Same Time Next Year	Jan 7, 1998	8.0
14	The Paul Lassiter Story	Jan 21, 1998	7.0
15	Gentleman's Agreement	Jan 28, 1998	8.0
16	Deaf Man Walking	Feb 25, 1998	7.0
17	The Marrying Men (1)	Mar 4, 1998	7.0
18	One Wedding and a Funeral (2)	Mar 11, 1998	9.0
19	A River Runs Through Me	Mar 18, 1998	7.0
20	The Pope of Gracie Mansion	Apr 1, 1998	7.0
21	Bye, Bye, Birdie	Apr 29, 1998	7.0
22	The Lady or the Tiger	May 6, 1998	7.0
23	Single White Male	May 6, 1998	7.0
24	The Paul-Bearer	May 20, 1998	7.0

Season 3

26 episodes • 1998Avg: 7.6Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Dead Dog Talking	Sep 22, 1998	8.0
2	There's Something About Heidi	Sep 29, 1998	8.0
3	Gone with the Wind	Oct 6, 1998	7.0
4	The Deer Hunter	Oct 13, 1998	7.0
5	It Happened One Night	Oct 20, 1998	8.0
6	Three Men and a Little Lady	Oct 27, 1998	8.0
7	An Officer and a Gentleman	Nov 3, 1998	7.0
8	Quest for Fire	Nov 10, 1998	7.0
9	The Kidney's All Right	Nov 17, 1998	7.0
10	Gobble the Wonder Turkey Saves the Day	Nov 24, 1998	8.0
11	Local Hero	Dec 8, 1998	8.0
12	Monkey Business	Dec 15, 1998	8.0
13	Taxi Driver	Jan 5, 1999	7.0
14	The Nutty Deputy Mayor	Jan 12, 1999	7.0
15	Not in the Line of Fire	Jan 26, 1999	8.0
16	Internal Affairs	Feb 9, 1999	10.0
17	Dick Clark's Rockin' Make-Out Party '99	Feb 16, 1999	8.0
18	Back to the Future IV: Judgment Day	Feb 23, 1999	8.0
19	Politically Incorrect	Mar 2, 1999	7.0
20	That's Entertainment	Mar 16, 1999	6.0
21	The Last Temptation of Mike	Apr 6, 1999	7.0
22	Carter & Stuart & Bennett & Deirdre	Apr 13, 1999	8.0
23	The Mayor With Two Brains	May 4, 1999	8.0
24	Wall Street	May 11, 1999	7.0
25	Klumageddon (1)	May 18, 1999	8.0
26	Klumageddon (2)	May 25, 1999	8.0

Season 4

26 episodes • 1999Avg: 7.7Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Catcher in the Bronx	Sep 21, 1999	8.0
2	James and the Giant Speech	Sep 28, 1999	7.0
3	All the Mayor's Men	Oct 5, 1999	7.0
4	These Shoes Were Made for Cheatin'	Oct 12, 1999	7.0
5	Rebel Without a Chair	Oct 19, 1999	8.0
6	The Mayor May Not	Nov 2, 1999	7.0
7	The Great Debate	Nov 9, 1999	7.0
8	How to Bury a Millionaire	Nov 16, 1999	8.0
9	The Thanksgiving Show	Nov 23, 1999	8.0
10	The Doorman Always Rings Twice	Nov 30, 1999	8.0
11	Mustang Mikey	Dec 7, 1999	7.0
12	My Dinner with Caitlin (a.k.a. Christmas 1999)	Dec 21, 1999	7.0
13	A Tale of Two Sisters	Jan 12, 2000	8.0
14	Casino	Feb 2, 2000	8.0
15	The Marry Caitlin Moore Show	Feb 9, 2000	8.0
16	Suffragette City	Feb 16, 2000	8.0
17	Mike's Best Friend's Boyfriend	Feb 23, 2000	7.0
18	The Pig Whisperer	Mar 8, 2000	7.0
19	Uneasy Rider	Mar 22, 2000	7.0
20	About Last Night	Apr 19, 2000	8.0
21	Don't Get on the Bus	Apr 26, 2000	8.0
22	Airplane!	May 3, 2000	7.0
23	An American Deputy Mayor in Paris	May 10, 2000	8.0
24	The Commitments	May 17, 2000	9.0
25	Goodbye (1)	May 24, 2000	8.0
26	Goodbye (2)	May 24, 2000	10.0

Season 5

23 episodes • 2000Avg: 7.0

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Hello Charlie	Oct 18, 2000	7.0
2	Smile	Oct 25, 2000	7.0
3	The Spanish Prisoner	Nov 1, 2000	7.0
4	The Bone Collectors	Nov 8, 2000	7.0
5	Blind Faith	Nov 15, 2000	7.0
6	Balloons over Broadway	Nov 22, 2000	7.0
7	Lost and Found	Nov 29, 2000	1.0
8	All the Wrong Moves	Dec 6, 2000	7.0
9	The Burgers of Wrath	Dec 13, 2000	7.0
10	Toy Story	Dec 20, 2000	7.0
11	The Perfect Dorm	Jan 10, 2001	7.0
12	Hey Judith	Jan 17, 2001	7.0
13	The Gambler	Jan 24, 2001	7.0
14	In the Company of Dudes	Feb 7, 2001	7.0
15	The Image Maker	Feb 14, 2001	7.0
16	Trainstopping	Feb 21, 2001	7.0
17	Rain on My Charades	Feb 28, 2001	7.0
18	You've Got Male	Apr 25, 2001	8.0
19	Minor League	May 2, 2001	8.0
20	Science Friction	May 9, 2001	8.0
21	Brotherly Love	May 16, 2001	8.0
22	A Shot in the Dark (1)	May 23, 2001	8.0
23	A Shot in the Dark (2)	May 23, 2001	8.0

Season 6

22 episodes • 2001Avg: 7.5

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Arrival (1)	Sep 25, 2001	8.0
2	A Tree Falls in Manhattan (2)	Sep 25, 2001	8.0
3	Wife with Mikey	Oct 2, 2001	7.0
4	The Apartment	Oct 9, 2001	7.0
5	Yet Another Stakeout	Oct 16, 2001	7.0
6	Yeah Baby!	Oct 23, 2001	8.0
7	Sleeping with the Enemy	Nov 6, 2001	8.0
8	She's Gotta Habit	Nov 6, 2001	8.0
9	The Wedding Scammer	Nov 13, 2001	7.0
10	Fight Flub	Nov 20, 2001	8.0
11	Chinatown	Nov 27, 2001	8.0
12	An Office and a Gentleman	Dec 11, 2001	8.0
13	O Mother, Where Art Thou?	Jan 8, 2002	7.0
14	Rags to Riches	Mar 5, 2002	7.0
15	Sex, Lies and Video Date	Mar 12, 2002	7.0
16	Eyes Wide Open	Mar 19, 2002	6.0
17	Age Against the Machine	Mar 26, 2002	7.0
18	An Affair Not to Remember	Apr 9, 2002	9.0
19	Let's Give Them Something to Talk About	Apr 16, 2002	9.0
20	Look Who's Not Talking	Apr 23, 2002	7.0
21	A Tale of Four Cities	Apr 30, 2002	7.0
22	A Friend in Need	Apr 30, 2002	8.0

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