List of Breaking Bad episodes

Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created by Vince Gilligan, which premiered in 2008 on the cable network AMC. It revolves around Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a 50-year-old high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After White is diagnosed with lung cancer, he uses his chemistry knowledge to "cook" crystal meth with his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), in order to secure his family's (played by Anna Gunn and RJ Mitte) financial future before he dies from the disease.

Over the course of its broadcast, Breaking Bad aired 62 episodes over five seasons. The pilot episode was first aired on January 20, 2008, and the series finale was broadcast on September 29, 2013.

Series overview

Season		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
	1	7		January 20, 2008	March 9, 2008
	2	13		March 8, 2009	May 31, 2009
	3	13		March 21, 2010	June 13, 2010
	4	13		July 17, 2011	October 9, 2011
	5	16	8	July 15, 2012	September 2, 2012
			8	August 11, 2013	September 29, 2013

Episodes

Season 1 (2008)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Pilot"	Vince Gilligan	Vince Gilligan	January 20, 2008	1.41[1]
2	2	"Cat's in the Bag..."	Adam Bernstein	Vince Gilligan	January 27, 2008	1.49[2]
3	3	"...And the Bag's in the River"	Adam Bernstein	Vince Gilligan	February 10, 2008	1.08[3]
4	4	"Cancer Man"	Jim McKay	Vince Gilligan	February 17, 2008	1.09[4]
5	5	"Gray Matter"	Tricia Brock	Patty Lin	February 24, 2008	0.97[5]
6	6	"Crazy Handful of Nothin'"	Bronwen Hughes	George Mastras	March 2, 2008	1.07[6]
7	7	"A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal"	Tim Hunter	Peter Gould	March 9, 2008	1.50[7]

Season 2 (2009)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
8	1	"Seven Thirty-Seven"	Bryan Cranston	J. Roberts	March 8, 2009	1.66[8]
9	2	"Grilled"	Charles Haid	George Mastras	March 15, 2009	1.60[9]
10	3	"Bit by a Dead Bee"	Terry McDonough	Peter Gould	March 22, 2009	1.13[10]
11	4	"Down"	John Dahl	Sam Catlin	March 29, 2009	1.29[11]
12	5	"Breakage"	Johan Renck	Moira Walley-Beckett	April 5, 2009	1.21[12]
13	6	"Peekaboo"	Peter Medak	J. Roberts & Vince Gilligan	April 12, 2009	1.41[13]
14	7	"Negro y Azul"	Felix Alcala	John Shiban	April 19, 2009	N/A
15	8	"Better Call Saul"	Terry McDonough	Peter Gould	April 26, 2009	1.04[14]
16	9	"4 Days Out"	Michelle MacLaren	Sam Catlin	May 3, 2009	N/A
17	10	"Over"	Phil Abraham	Moira Walley-Beckett	May 10, 2009	N/A
18	11	"Mandala"	Adam Bernstein	George Mastras	May 17, 2009	N/A
19	12	"Phoenix"	Colin Bucksey	John Shiban	May 24, 2009	N/A
20	13	"ABQ"	Adam Bernstein	Vince Gilligan	May 31, 2009	1.50[15]

Season 3 (2010)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
21	1	"No Más"	Bryan Cranston	Vince Gilligan	March 21, 2010	1.95[16]
22	2	"Caballo Sin Nombre"	Adam Bernstein	Peter Gould	March 28, 2010	1.55[16]
23	3	"I.F.T."	Michelle MacLaren	George Mastras	April 4, 2010	1.33[16]
24	4	"Green Light"	Scott Winant	Sam Catlin	April 11, 2010	1.46[16]
25	5	"Más"	Johan Renck	Moira Walley-Beckett	April 18, 2010	1.61[16]
26	6	"Sunset"	John Shiban	John Shiban	April 25, 2010	1.64[16]
27	7	"One Minute"	Michelle MacLaren	Thomas Schnauz	May 2, 2010	1.52[16]
28	8	"I See You"	Colin Bucksey	Gennifer Hutchison	May 9, 2010	1.78[16]
29	9	"Kafkaesque"	Michael Slovis	Peter Gould & George Mastras	May 16, 2010	1.61[16]
30	10	"Fly"	Rian Johnson	Sam Catlin & Moira Walley-Beckett	May 23, 2010	1.20[16]
31	11	"Abiquiu"	Michelle MacLaren	John Shiban & Thomas Schnauz	May 30, 2010	1.32[16]
32	12	"Half Measures"	Adam Bernstein	Sam Catlin & Peter Gould	June 6, 2010	1.19[16]
33	13	"Full Measure"	Vince Gilligan	Vince Gilligan	June 13, 2010	1.56[17]

Season 4 (2011)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
34	1	"Box Cutter"	Adam Bernstein	Vince Gilligan	July 17, 2011	2.58[18]
35	2	"Thirty-Eight Snub"	Michelle MacLaren	George Mastras	July 24, 2011	1.97[19]
36	3	"Open House"	David Slade	Sam Catlin	July 31, 2011	1.71[20]
37	4	"Bullet Points"	Colin Bucksey	Moira Walley-Beckett	August 7, 2011	1.83[21]
38	5	"Shotgun"	Michelle MacLaren	Thomas Schnauz	August 14, 2011	1.75[22]
39	6	"Cornered"	Michael Slovis	Gennifer Hutchison	August 21, 2011	1.67[23]
40	7	"Problem Dog"	Peter Gould	Peter Gould	August 28, 2011	1.91[24]
41	8	"Hermanos"	Johan Renck	Sam Catlin & George Mastras	September 4, 2011	1.98[25]
42	9	"Bug"	Terry McDonough	Moira Walley-Beckett & Thomas Schnauz	September 11, 2011	1.89[26]
43	10	"Salud"	Michelle MacLaren	Peter Gould & Gennifer Hutchison	September 18, 2011	1.80[27]
44	11	"Crawl Space"	Scott Winant	George Mastras & Sam Catlin	September 25, 2011	1.55[28]
45	12	"End Times"	Vince Gilligan	Thomas Schnauz & Moira Walley-Beckett	October 2, 2011	1.73[29]
46	13	"Face Off"	Vince Gilligan	Vince Gilligan	October 9, 2011	1.90[30]

Season 5 (2012–13)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
Part 1
47	1	"Live Free or Die"	Michael Slovis	Vince Gilligan	July 15, 2012	2.93[31]
48	2	"Madrigal"	Michelle MacLaren	Vince Gilligan	July 22, 2012	2.29[32]
49	3	"Hazard Pay"	Adam Bernstein	Peter Gould	July 29, 2012	2.20[33]
50	4	"Fifty-One"	Rian Johnson	Sam Catlin	August 5, 2012	2.29[34]
51	5	"Dead Freight"	George Mastras	George Mastras	August 12, 2012	2.48[35]
52	6	"Buyout"	Colin Bucksey	Gennifer Hutchison	August 19, 2012	2.81[36]
53	7	"Say My Name"	Thomas Schnauz	Thomas Schnauz	August 26, 2012	2.98[37]
54	8	"Gliding Over All"	Michelle MacLaren	Moira Walley-Beckett	September 2, 2012	2.78[38]
Part 2
55	9	"Blood Money"	Bryan Cranston	Peter Gould	August 11, 2013	5.92[39]
56	10	"Buried"	Michelle MacLaren	Thomas Schnauz	August 18, 2013	4.77[40]
57	11	"Confessions"	Michael Slovis	Gennifer Hutchison	August 25, 2013	4.85[41]
58	12	"Rabid Dog"	Sam Catlin	Sam Catlin	September 1, 2013	4.41[42]
59	13	"To'hajiilee"	Michelle MacLaren	George Mastras	September 8, 2013	5.11[43]
60	14	"Ozymandias"	Rian Johnson	Moira Walley-Beckett	September 15, 2013	6.37[44]
61	15	"Granite State"	Peter Gould	Peter Gould	September 22, 2013	6.58[45]
62	16	"Felina"	Vince Gilligan	Vince Gilligan	September 29, 2013	10.28[46]

Minisodes

Breaking Bad: Original Minisodes is a web series based on the television series Breaking Bad. On February 17, 2009, five "mini-episodes," which were more comedy-oriented than most full episodes,^[47] were made available online before the premiere of the show's second season. Additional minisodes were to be produced before the premiere of the fourth season,^[48] but these did not come to fruition.^[49] The series was included with Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Running time
1	"Good Cop / Bad Cop"	John Shiban	Suzanne Potts	February 17, 2009	2:53
2	"Wedding Day"	John Shiban	Kate Powers	February 17, 2009	4:50
3	"TwaüghtHammër"	John Shiban	Gennifer Hutchison	February 17, 2009	4:13
4	"Marie's Confession"	John Shiban	Vince Gilligan	February 17, 2009	2:47
5	"The Break-In"	John Shiban	Gennifer Hutchison	February 17, 2009	4:49

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External links

• Official website
• List of Breaking Bad episodes at the Internet Movie Database
• List of Breaking Bad episodes at TV.com