Season 1

Air date:2009-09-17
User score:
7.4
Number of episodes:10

Suave secret agent Sterling Archer is the world's most dangerous spy, but political intrigue and global crises are nothing compared to the sexual tension and human resources crises at the intelligence agency where he works. Archer must deal with his overbearing, oversexed mother—who is also his boss—and his femme fatale ex-girlfriend who seems to be sleeping with everyone except him.

List of Episodes

S1E1

7.1

Air date: 2009-09-17

Runtime: 22 min

Archer is in trouble with his Mother and the Comptroller because his expense account is way out of proportion to his actual expenses. So he creates the idea that a Mole has breached ISIS and he needs to get into the mainframe to hunt him down (so he can cover his tracks!). All this leads to a surprising ending.

S1E2

7.4

Air date: 2010-01-14

Runtime: 22 min

Lana's residual lust for Archer prompts Malory to promote Cyril to field agent. Archer then trains his new competition as only he can, whilst Malory frets over her own past and her son's future.

S1E3

7.5

Air date: 2010-01-21

Runtime: 22 min

Owing to a rash of agent deaths (the result of Sterling's carelessness), ISIS can't meet government diversity standards. Enter the gruffly elegant Conway Stern, an "onyx" agent who wears a Star of David around his neck. Conway is "a diversity double whammy," gushes Malory, but that and his secret-agent skills aren't the only reasons she hired him.

S1E4

7.1

Air date: 2010-01-28

Runtime: 22 min

Malory hosts a dinner party for the UN intelligence chairman, Torvald Utne, in an effort to get a new weapons contract for ISIS. Unfortunately, a group of rival assassins have targeted Mr. Utne for elimination.

S1E5

7.1

Air date: 2010-02-04

Runtime: 22 min

Malory's career is threatened when a sensitive videotape falls into the hands of a rogue (and roguish) Cuban agent, so she calls on Archer’s expertise in seduction to turn the tables on her blackmailer.

S1E6

7.7

Air date: 2010-02-11

Runtime: 22 min

Archer must rescue Lana from the clutches of Skorpio, the infamous arms dealer. Meanwhile, Cyril fears not only for his girlfriend's life, but her succumbing to the seductive nature of Archer's heroics.

S1E7

8.5

Air date: 2010-02-18

Runtime: 22 min

When a bomb threat jeopardizes the maiden voyage of the luxury airship Excelsior, Archer and the ISIS crew must battle the clock (and each other) to avert disaster.

S1E8

7.2

Air date: 2010-03-04

Runtime: 22 min

After ISIS loses yet another lucrative contract to rival agency ODIN, Malory assigns Archer and Lana to embarrass ODIN by stealing a priceless diamond from their biggest client.