Mike Flaherty, the Deputy Mayor of New York City, and his team of half-wits must constantly save the Mayor from embarrassment and the media. Mike is later succeeded by Charlie Crawford.

In this sitcom, Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty (Michael J. Fox) and his City Hall staff must stop the dim-witted Mayor Randall Winston (Barry Bostwick) of New York City from embarrassing himself in front of the media and the voters. The staff consists of Caitlin Moore (Heather Locklear) the Communications Director, Carter Haywood (Michael Boatman) the head of Minority Affairs, Stuart Bondek (Alan Ruck) the Chief of Staff, Paul Lassiter (Richard Kind) the Press Secretary, James Hobert (Alexander Chaplin), the Mayor's Speech Writer, and Nikki Faber (Connie Britton) accountant. In the final two seasons of the show, Mike was replaced by Charlie Crawford (Charlie Sheen).—Samantha Rose and Mike Boothroyd

In a government office of a city, a group of colleagues and friends do everything that they can to keep the city running. From time to time, they travel on numerous adventures and journeys together. At times, they get themselves into trouble and need to work together to fix it.—RECB3

This situation comedy takes place in New York City's City Hall. It centers on Mike Flaherty (Michael J. Fox), the Deputy Mayor, who has to protect the slightly moronic Mayor, Randall Winston (Barry Bostwick), from those who want to ruin his political career, and from himself, because he is constantly making an ass of himself and Mike has try and make sure that his little escapades are either not made public or have very little negative effect on the Mayor. Helping Mike is Carter Haywood (Michael Boatman), probably the least quirky member of the mayor's staff and Nikki Faber (Connie Britton) and James Hobert (Alexander Chaplin). Stuart Bondek (Alan Ruck) and Paul Lassiter (Richard Kind) are two members of the staff who cause just as much problems. Mike's secretary, who joined the show during the second season was Stacy Paterno (Jennifer Esposito). Mike's girlfriend during the first season was Ashley Schaeffer (Carla Gugino), but the character was dropped, his next girlfriend, during the following season was Laurie Parres (Paula Marshall), and during the third season it was Nikki Faber (Connie Britton), and in the fourth season it was Caitlin Moore (Heather Locklear), the Mayor's campaign manager. Michael J. Fox left the show after the fourth season. During the next season, the new Deputy Mayor was Charlie Crawford (Charlie Sheen).—[email protected]