• Air date: 25 Jan '99 13 episodes
      Dilbert is an animated television series adaptation of the comic strip of the same name, produced by Adelaide Productions, Idbox, and United Media and distributed by Columbia TriStar Television. The first episode was broadcast on January 25, 1999, and was UPN's highest-rated comedy series premiere at that point in the network's history; it lasted two seasons on UPN and won a Primetime Emmy before its cancellation.
  • List of Episodes (13)
    • 1. The Name

      25 Jan '99
      Dilbert is tasked with naming a product that hasn't even been designed yet, and the stress (brought on by a recurring nightmare) makes Dilbert think he's turning into a chicken.
    • 2. The Competition

      01 Feb '99
      Dilbert is fired from his job when he is suspected of being a spy for a rival company (which was a rumor cooked up by Dogbert's online newsletter) and gets hired at a company that actually treats their workers like people.
    • 3. The Prototype

      08 Feb '99
      Dilbert and Alice must work together to stop a rival team led by the legendary "Lena" from stealing their ideas and presenting them to the Boss as her own.
    • 4. The Takeover

      15 Feb '99
      Dilbert and Wally become majority shareholders of their company after Dogbert manipulates the stock market.
    • 5. Testing

      22 Feb '99
      The Gruntmaster 6000 prototype is put to the test by an evil masked test engineer named Bob Bastard.
    • 6. Elbonian Trip

      01 Mar '99
      Dilbert, Alice, Wally, Dogbert, and the Pointy-Haired Boss take a business trip to Elbonia. Alice and Dilbert attempt to free the Elbonian people (Alice adopts an Elbonian baby while Dilbert introduces the workers to human rights) while Wally becomes a prophet.
    • 7. Tower of Babel

      22 Mar '99
      The repetitive passing-on of the same cold strain in Dilbert's office causes it to mutate and turns the coworkers into monsters. Rather than eliminate the virus, the company decides to start fresh by moving everyone to a new office, which Dilbert is tasked with designing.
    • 8. Little People

      05 Apr '99
      Dilbert discovers that the office is inhabited by a race of former employees who have been "downsized" (literally shrunken down to size after they've been laid off) after finding all of his belongings used, the dry-erase markers disappearing, and X-rated websites on his computer.
    • 9. The Knack

      26 Apr '99
      Dilbert loses "the knack" for technology when he gets management DNA from accidentally drinking from the Boss's cup. His resulting mis-steps send the world back to the Dark Ages.
    • 10. Y2K

      03 May '99
      On the eve of the new millennium, everyone — except Dilbert — is making New Year's plans. While assuring everyone that the company is prepared for Y2K, Dilbert discovers that the computer mainframe's main processor isn't Y2K-compatible and all the company's systems will crash if it isn't fixed. Dilbert is rewarded for discovering this by being assigned to fix it, and he discovers that the system's original programmer was Wally. But have years of drudgework dulled his brain too much to be
    • 11. Charity

      10 May '99
      Dilbert is forced to be a charity coordinator for the "Associated Way" charity drive.
    • 12. Holiday

      17 May '99
      Dilbert thinks there are too many time-wasting holidays; Dogbert concurrently convinces Congress to abandon all holidays in favor of a National Dogbert Day.
    • 13. The Infomercial

      24 May '99
      The pre-production—non-lab-tested—Gruntmaster 6000 is scheduled to be tested by a Texan family.