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Spin City debuted on ABC September 17, 1996.
| #1: "Pilot" | September 17, 1996 |
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| Michael's girlfriend Ashley has a news flash for him: the two have been unofficially living together for more than a year. | |
| #2: "The Great Pretender" | September 24, 1995 |
| Mike learns being named "sexiest man in New York" has a down side when his paranoia over public perception leads to sexual problems in his private life. Meanwhile, Paul (Richard Kind) fears Ashley can read his mind. | |
| #3: "The Apartment" | October 1, 1996 |
| With the sanitation workers refusing to accept the city's terms for a new contract, Mike and the Mayor (Barry Bostwick) are forced into round-the-clock negotiations -- spoiling any opportunity Mike may have for quality time with Ashley (Carla Gugino). | |
| #4: "Pride and Prejudice" | October 8, 1996 |
| Mike puts his foot in his mouth during a television interview by making some offhand remarks about Ashley's reporting abilities; and later finds himself stuck in the middle of a controversy. | |
| #5: "The Rivals" | October 15, 1996 |
| A verbal confrontation between Mayor Winston and a beloved former mayor (Tom Lacy) has grave consequences when the ex-official expires in the middle of the spat. | |
| #6: "A Star is Born" | October 22, 1996 |
| A plan to raise the mayor's approval rating goes up in smoke when it's revealed that his nominee for Public Schools Chancellor (John Bedford Lloyd) once smoked marjuana. (Repeat of this episode on January 21, 1997 featured a different intro segment about the Superbowl and without Carla Gugino.) | |
| #7: "Grand Illusions" | October 29, 1996 |
| Never one to stand on ceremony, Carter (Michael Boatman) vows to protest the mayor's negative stand on gay marriages by staging his own weddng -- to Nikki. | |
| #8: "The High and the Mighty" | November 12, 1996 |
| Mike's the toast of the office when he constructs a deal with real-estate developer Dan Donaldson (George Wendt) that benefits an ailing retirement home. | |
| #9: "Meet Tommy Dugan" | November 19, 1996 |
| The Mayor's office is at a loss for words when it's discovered that the winner of a student "Mayor for a Day" essay contest is actually an elementary school janitor (woody Harrelson). | |
| #10: "The Competitors" | November 26, 1996 |
| There's plenty of fowl...uh, foul play afoot when the mayor's office and city council turn an annual Thanksgiving charity event to feed the homeless into a heated competition. Speaker Rosen: Ed Koch. | |
| #11: "Dog Day Afternoon" | December 10, 1996 |
| After the mayor gets dogged by the police commissioner (Jerry Adler) for not showing the department respect, Mike decides to have him deliver the eulogy for a decorated police canine. | |
| #12: "Criss Cross" | December 17, 1996 |
| When a nasty head cold forces the mayor to forfeit an appearance on a debate program, Mike goes instead...and must face off against Ashley. (Last episode Carla Gugino appears in as a regular cast member.) | |
| #13: "Bye Bye Love" | January 7, 1997 |
| After his relationship with Ashley abruptly ends over the holidays, Mike returns to work, brave face intact. But the gang worries that he's really just masking his pain. | |
| #14: "Starting Over" | January 14, 1997 |
| Mike is barely surviving his breakup with Ashley in this bittersweet episode, which features Courtney Thorne-Smith as Danielle Brinkman, a prosecutor who's attracted to the newly unattached deputy mayor. It seems Mike isn't happy, and neither is anyone else in the mayor's office, since he's thrown himself completely into his work -- and dragged his reluctant staff with him. Desperate for a night off, his colleagues encourage him to accept any one of a number of invitations now that he's been declared "officially in play". But it's Nikki's friend Danielle who finally catches his eye and gets the hesitant deputy mayor to consider a date with the clooege classmate. Maybe. In another storyline, Tony Award winner Faith Prince does a wacky turn as Claudia Sacks, the president of press secretary Paul Lassiter's fan club. | |
| #15: "Gabby's Song" | January 28, 1997 |
| Mike is ready to welcome the city council's new chief of staff (Constance Marie) with open arms. But he's soon up in arms when he realizes that she'll be keeping him on his toes. | |
| #16: "Kiss Me, Stupid" | February 11, 1997 |
| Carter's heart skips a beat on Valentine's Day when his former love, Spence (Luke Perry), sets him straight about a few things -- like the fact that he's engaged...to a woman. | |
| #17: "An Affair to Remember" | February 18, 1997 |
| Mike wants the mayor's 50th-birthday gala to be an affair to remember, but the party may be over before it begins due a rumored romance between the mayor and a colleague (Anne Twomey). George Stephanopoulos: Himself. | |
| #18: "Snowbound" | February 25, 1997 |
| In the middle of a snowstorm, Mike's dream girl from high school (Amanda Peet) arrives and invites him to her hotel; Stuart and Carter get trapped in a boiler room. | |
| #19: "Striptease" | March 4, 1997 |
| Mike gets a big surprise when he finds out -- at a councilman's bachelor party -- that the law-school student (Cynthia Watros) he's been dating moonlights as an exotic dancer. | |
| #20: "Deaf Becomes Her" | March 18, 1997 |
| Mike tries to keep a hearing-impaired activist (Marlee Matlin) from organizing a rally at City Hall after the Mayor's office is embarrassed twice by incidents involving deaf people. George: Sam Seder. Tim: Lewis Merkin. | |
| #21: "Hot in the City" | April 1, 1997 |
| On the personal front, Mike struggles with his ex-girlfriend Carrie (Daphne Zuniga), who is desperate to bear his child (with or without his participation). At the office, he's playing peacemaker after the major's ill-chosen words split up a beloved band just before their reunion concert. | |
| #22: "Bone Free" | April 29, 1997 |
| The mayor is in trouble again -- this time because it appears that he refused to shake the hand of the president (Anna Holbrook) of a women's caucus following a press conference. | |
| #23: "?" | May 6, 1997 |
| Following their annual spring blowup, the mayor leaves his wife and moves in with Mike. Meanwhile, Carter has a new beau -- Issac Mizarahi -- who asks Nikki to model one of his designs. (Note: Portions of this episode were in 3-D.) | |
| #24: "Mayor Over Miami" | May 13, 1997 |
| Mayor Winston is in a funk: he's divorcing after 25 years of marriage, and he believes his political life's a disaster. Things are so bad, he's even written "why me?" on each page of his State of the City address. Enter Mike, who thinks a surprise social gathering at his apartment would brighten Winston's mood. But the mayor has other ideas. He's headed for the sunshine of Miami with Paul, leaving a frantic and furious deputy mayor to cover for him. Claudia: Faith Prince. | |
©1995-1997, To Be Continued...