5.3/1017 votes#1 - Fierce
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/2000
An aspiring dancer and her would-be professional-wrestler husband decide to pursue their dreams in Las Vegas. We meet Nikki, who uninvitedly met Dwight at his going away to college party two years ago. They eventually cling to each other. After taking Nikki's advice to follow his dream and disregarding his mother's wish to see her son attend college, Dwight joins a wrestling camp, and incurring the wrath of his mother who cannot stand Nikki as she visits them.
Director: Gerry Cohen
Writer: N/A
- 3.8/1012 votes
#2 - Humiliated
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/2000
Dwight makes his debut as The Crybaby in his first professional wrestling match, but his embarrassment leads him to ditch the script. Meanwhile, Nikki is up for a solo act in a musical production at the casino, but the lyrics could harm her big chance.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 3.3/1012 votes
#3 - Topless
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/2000
Nikki learns that the next show at the casino requires the dancers to perform topless- or take the month long run off without pay. Dwight's medical insurance is cancelled because of an injury he sustained in junior high school, and he can't wrestle until he gets a new policy. Before leaving for home, Marion tries to persuade Dwight that he's throwing his life away.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 4.0/1011 votes
#4 - No Sex, No Mary, No Title
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/2000
Nikki and Dwight have a hard time trying to squeeze having sex into their busy schedule. Dwight impresses Jupiter at practice and gets a chance to wrestle on television, but he'll have to abstain from having sex for two weeks to conserve his energy. Meanwhile, Nikki competes for the position of dance captain, but loses it to Mary.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Won't You Beat My Neighbor?
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/2000
When Nikki and Dwight's new neighbor Robert complains about the noise and trades insults with Nikki, Dwight throws him out the door. When Nikki accuses him of trying to look macho in front of his buddies, they have their first big fight.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#6 - The Next Step
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/2000
Dwight auditions for a music video that features dancing wrestlers, and he persuades the director to let Nikki try out for a part in the production.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - The Ex Factor
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/2000
Nikki throws a surprise birthday party for Marion on a night when the mother-in-law had dinner plans with Dwight's ex-girlfriend.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 4.4/109 votes
#8 - Stealing Nikki
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/2000
Dwight gets a match with CWF champ The Big Easy but isn't happy when the script calls for his opponent to win Nikki away with a kiss.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - The Crybaby Who Stole Christmas
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/2000
It's The Crybaby vs. Kriss Kringle as Dwight wrestles Santa Claus in this festive episode.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- 5.6/1011 votes
#10 - Bottoms Up
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/7/2001
Nikki gets a chance to appear as a weather girl, but her excitement turns to embarrassment when she and Dwight realize bar patrons drink a toast to her "bottom" every time she turns her back to the camera.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - The Jupiter and Mary Chain
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/2001
Nikki's career hits a new low when she has to work with a drunken knife-thrower, but things get even weirder when, against Dwight's objections, Nikki sets up her friend Mary with Dwight's wrestling coach Jupiter.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Let it Ride
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2001
Nikki breaks her pledge to Dwight that she won't gamble after the wrestling arena is temporarily closed and her car breaks down.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Dream Weaver
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/2001
Nikki fears that Marion will ask the rich man she's dating to persuade Dwight to give up wrestling and go to college. However, Marion's friend may not be as happy with his success as he seems.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - Fallback
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2001
Dwight considers going to college after he meets his childhood hero, wrestler Pretty Boy, who is now old and poor.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- 5.0/1010 votes
#15 - Cheerleader of Doom
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/2001
Dwight talks Jupiter into hiring Nikki as a ring-side cheerleader.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- 4.2/1012 votes
#16 - I'll Kick Your Ass
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2001
Nikki's abrasive father arrives in town and goes to a show at the casino to watch his daughter dance.
Director: Joe Regalbuto
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - One Wedding and a Funeral
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/1/2001
Dwight is a late addition to a wrestling event slated for the same day that he and Nikki plan a second wedding ceremony for themselves.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Dwight and Nikki and Ken and Alice
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/8/2001
Dwight and Nikki befriend a married couple who move into their building and the Whites decide to spice up the dull duo's social life.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - Schisler's List
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/29/2001
The IRS takes over the casino and the representative in charge makes the dancers perform in additional shows without extra pay.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#20 - And the Winner Is...
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/6/2001
Dwight rescues Robert Goulet's nephew, and the singer wants to repay the deed by selecting Nikki as the winner in a showgirl pageant.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#21 - Love at First Dwight
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/2001
An old friend of Nikki's visits and recalls the first time Nikki saw Dwight during a high school wrestling match. Meanwhile, Jupiter hires Mary to photograph his wrestlers for a calendar.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.3/1011 votes
#22 - Family Lies
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/2001
The first season concludes as Nikki's younger brother, Scott, arrives in town and asks his sister to arrange a job for him at the casino.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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Nikki White pursues her dream of being a Las Vegas showgirl, while her husband, Dwight, tries to break into professional wrestling.
Genre:Comedy
Network:The WB
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Fierce" is the best rated episode of "Nikki" season 1. It scored 5.3/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Gerry Cohen and written by N/A, it aired on 10/8/2000. This episode is rated 1.5 points higher than the second-best, "Humiliated".