Spin City (1996)

Name: Spin City
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Heather Locklear, Barry Bostwick, Richard Kind, Alan Ruck

Comedy

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.

IMDb rating: 7.3 (33,110 votes)
Episode average: 7.3 matches the IMDb rating
Seasons: 6
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1996)

7.46 avg 24 episodes 7.3 → 7.3 23 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.3	315
2	The Great Pretender	7.2	239
3	The Apartment	7.2	221
4	Pride and Prejudice	7.3	213
5	The Rivals	7.5	207
6	A Star Is Born	7.2	206
7	Grand Illusion	7.2	202
8	The High and the Mighty	7.5	198
9	Meet Tommy Dugan	7.9	213
10	The Competition	7.6	209
11	Dog Day Afternoon	7.7	208
12	Criss Cross	7.3	193
13	Bye Bye Love	7.5	199
14	Starting Over	7.4	192
15	Gabby's Song	7.5	191
16	Kiss Me, Stupid	7.7	202
17	An Affair to Remember	7.3	188
18	Snowbound	7.6	202
19	Striptease	7.4	190
20	Deaf Becomes Her	8.1	223
21	Hot in the City	7.5	181
22	Bone Free	7.5	180
23	The Mayor Who Came to Dinner	7.3	176
24	Mayor Over Miami	7.3	173

Season 2 (1997)

7.55 avg 24 episodes 7.4 → 7.9 23 min avg

Rebound

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Paul Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	7.4	170
2	Porn in the U.S.A.	7.8	174
3	Wonder Woman	7.5	160
4	The Goodbye Girl	7.5	166
5	In the Heat of the Day	7.6	163
6	Radio Daze	7.8	178
7	The Thirty Year Itch	7.6	170
8	My Life Is a Soap Opera	7.7	152
9	Family Affair	7.5	169
10	Family Affair: Part 2	7.3	163
11	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	7.6	178
12	Miracle Near 34th Street	7.5	164
13	Same Time Next Year	8.0	151
14	The Paul Lassiter Story	7.0	200
15	Gentleman's Agreement	7.6	157
16	Deaf Man Walking	7.7	158
17	The Marrying Men	7.3	161
18	One Wedding and a Funeral	7.5	149
19	A River Runs Through Me	7.5	153
20	The Pope of Gracie Mansion	7.4	153
21	Bye, Bye, Birdie	7.8	152
22	The Lady or the Tiger	7.4	153
23	Single White Male	7.2	154
24	The Paul Bearer	7.9	156

Season 3 (1998)

7.53 avg 26 episodes 7.5 → 7.7 30 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Dead Dog Talking	7.5	175
2	There's Something About Heidi	7.7	160
3	Gone with the Wind	7.6	159
4	The Deer Hunter	7.4	151
5	It Happened One Night	7.5	163
6	Three Men and a Little Lady	7.4	155
7	An Officer and a Gentleman	7.3	158
8	Quest for Fire	7.6	149
9	The Kidney's All Right	7.5	150
10	Gobble the Wonder Turkey Saves the Day	7.5	153
11	Local Hero	7.7	150
12	Monkey Business	7.2	143
13	Taxi Driver	7.6	145
14	The Nutty Deputy Mayor	7.2	138
15	Not in the Line of Fire	7.6	139
16	Internal Affairs	8.0	146
17	Dick Clark's Rockin' Make-Out Party '99	8.0	146
18	Back to the Future IV - Judgment Day	8.4	210
19	Politically Incorrect	7.6	151
20	That's Entertainment	6.5	151
21	The Last Temptation of Mike	7.5	136
22	Carter & Stuart & Bennett & Deirdre	7.4	140
23	The Mayor with Two Brains	7.5	136
24	Wall Street	7.4	133
25	Klumageddon: Part 1	7.4	135
26	Klumageddon: Part 2	7.7	142

Season 4 (1999)

7.50 avg 26 episodes 7.4 → 9.1 30 min avg

Big finale

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Catcher in the Bronx	7.4	154
2	James and the Giant Speech	7.2	133
3	All the Mayor's Men	7.2	132
4	These Shoes Were Made for Cheatin'	7.2	135
5	Rebel Without a Chair	7.2	133
6	The Mayor May Not	7.3	135
7	The Great Debate	7.3	139
8	How to Bury a Millionaire	7.8	146
9	The Thanksgiving Show	7.6	134
10	The Doorman Always Rings Twice	7.2	129
11	Mustang Mikey	7.6	128
12	My Dinner with Caitlin	7.4	129
13	A Tale of Two Sisters	7.4	133
14	Casino	7.6	130
15	The Marry Caitlin Moore Show	7.2	128
16	Suffragette City	7.3	122
17	Mike's Best Friend's Boyfriend	7.3	128
18	The Pig Whisperer	7.5	127
19	Uneasy Rider	7.5	122
20	About Last Night	7.8	124
21	Don't Get on the Bus	7.6	129
22	Airplane!	7.5	132
23	An American Deputy Mayor in Paris	7.2	126
24	The Commitments	7.5	131
25	Goodbye: Part 1	8.2	175
26	Goodbye: Part 2	9.1	302

Season 5 (2000)

6.82 avg 23 episodes 7.1 → 7.3 30 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Hello Charlie	7.1	155
2	Smile	6.8	128
3	The Spanish Prisoner	7.0	130
4	The Bone Collectors	6.9	124
5	Blind Faith	6.6	124
6	Balloons over Broadway	6.9	125
7	Lost and Found	7.0	120
8	All the Wrong Moves	6.7	119
9	The Burgers of Wrath	6.8	114
10	Toy Story	7.0	129
11	The Perfect Dorm	6.6	108
12	Hey Judith	6.5	117
13	The Gambler	6.9	124
14	In the Company of Dudes	6.7	116
15	The Image Maker	6.6	119
16	Trainstopping	6.8	120
17	Rain on My Charades	6.9	126
18	You've Got Male	6.6	116
19	Minor League	6.4	116
20	Science Friction	7.1	121
21	Brotherly Love	6.9	116
22	A Shot in the Dark: Part 1	6.8	122
23	A Shot in the Dark: Part 2	7.3	134

Season 6 (2001)

7.06 avg 22 episodes 7.3 → 7.6 30 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Arrival	7.3	140
2	A Tree Falls in Manhattan	7.4	131
3	Wife with Mikey	7.4	134
4	The Apartment	6.8	116
5	Yet Another Stakeout	6.9	113
6	Yeah Baby!	6.8	119
7	Sleeping with the Enemy	7.0	118
8	She's Gotta Habit	6.9	118
9	The Wedding Scammer	7.1	112
10	Fight Flub	7.4	124
11	Chinatown	7.0	119
12	An Office and a Gentleman	6.9	119
13	O Mother, Where Art Thou?	7.0	121
14	Rags to Riches	7.2	127
15	Sex, Lies and Video Date	7.4	127
16	Eyes Wide Open	7.0	127
17	Age Against the Machine	7.0	116
18	An Affair Not to Remember	7.1	120
19	Let's Give Them Something to Talk About	6.7	121
20	Look Who's Not Talking	6.8	118
21	A Tale of Four Cities	6.6	119
22	A Friend in Need	7.6	129