Sports Night (1998)

Comedy · Drama · Sport

The offbeat cast and crew of a sports news show deal with professional, personal, and ethical challenges while functioning in a pressure-cooker work environment.

IMDb rating: 8.3 (9,223 votes)
Episode average: 8.0 -0.3 vs IMDb
Seasons: 2
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Seasons

Season 1 (1998)

8.08 avg 23 episodes 7.8 → 8.5 29 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.8	221
2	The Apology	8.4	232
3	The Hungry and the Hunted	7.9	173
4	Intellectual Property	7.8	163
5	Mary Pat Shelby	8.4	175
6	The Head Coach, Dinner and the Morning Mail	8.1	154
7	Dear Louise	8.0	158
8	Thespis	8.1	163
9	The Quality of Mercy at 29K	7.9	160
10	Shoe Money Tonight	8.1	155
11	The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee	8.7	187
12	Smoky	7.9	136
13	Small Town	7.9	147
14	Rebecca	8.2	145
15	Dana and the Deep Blue Sea	7.8	139
16	Sally	8.1	140
17	How Are Things in Glocca Morra?	7.9	129
18	The Sword of Orion	8.3	133
19	Eli's Coming	8.4	158
20	Ordnance Tactics	7.8	123
21	Ten Wickets	7.9	125
22	Napoleon's Battle Plan	8.0	123
23	What Kind of Day Has It Been?	8.5	148

Season 2 (1999)

7.96 avg 22 episodes 8.2 → 8.8 30 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Special Powers	8.2	119
2	When Something Wicked This Way Comes	8.0	117
3	Cliff Gardner	8.4	125
4	Louise Revisited	7.8	113
5	Kafelnikov	7.7	110
6	Shane	7.8	107
7	Kyle Whitaker's Got Two Sacks	8.0	109
8	The Reunion	7.9	106
9	A Girl Named Pixley	7.8	109
10	The Giants Win the Pennant, the Giants Win the Pennant	8.3	112
11	The Cut Man Cometh	8.2	128
12	The Sweet Smell of Air	7.6	108
13	Dana Get Your Gun	7.5	110
14	And the Crowd Goes Wild	7.5	114
15	Celebrities	8.1	117
16	The Local Weather	7.9	114
17	Draft Day: Part 1 - It Can't Rain at Indian Wells	7.8	108
18	Draft Day: Part 2 - The Fall of Ryan O'Brian	7.8	109
19	April Is the Cruelest Month	8.1	109
20	Bells and a Siren	7.8	113
21	La Forza Del Destino	8.2	114
22	Quo Vadimus	8.8	147

Sports Night (1998)

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