The fourth season of the American
television comedy The Office premiered in the United States on
NBC on September 27, 2007, and concluded on May 15, 2008. The season consisted of 9 half-hour episodes, and 5 hour-long episodes to comprise the 19 total episodes of material created.
The Office is an American adaptation of the
British TV series of the same name, and is presented in a
mockumentary format, portraying the daily lives of office employees in the
Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictitious
Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. The season was interrupted and shortened due to the effects of the
2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, in which the writers and some actors of
The Office went on strike; although 30 half-hour episodes had been ordered, only 19 were actually filmed. Several of the finished episodes were condensed into hour-long episodes, resulting in only 14 episodes being aired.