2001 · FOX · Action & Adventure, Drama
How long does it take to watch 24?
24 takes about 151 hours to watch: 204 episodes across 9 seasons, 9,079 minutes in all.
Updated October 2, 2026
- Episodes
- 204
- Seasons
- 9
- Per episode
- 45 min
- Status
- Ended in 2014
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
Season by season
| Season | Length | Hours | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 17.1h | 24 eps | |
| Season 2 | 17.9h | 24 eps | |
| Season 3 | 17.8h | 24 eps | |
| Season 4 | 17.6h | 24 eps | |
| Season 5 | 18.0h | 24 eps | |
| Season 6 | 18.0h | 24 eps | |
| Season 7 | 18.0h | 24 eps | |
| Season 8 | 18.0h | 24 eps | |
| Season 9 | 9.0h | 12 eps |
Longest: season 5, 18.0 hours. Shortest: season 9, 9.0 hours.
At your pace
- 1 episode a night
- 204 nights, about 7 months
- 3 episodes a night
- 68 nights, about 2 months
- Weekend binges, 8 hours a day
- 10 weekends
- Straight through, no sleep
- 6 days, 7 hours
Counts aired regular-season episodes only; specials are excluded. Runtimes come from TMDB, so totals can differ from other sources.
How it holds up
- Best-rated season
- Season 5 8.7
- Lowest-rated season
- Season 8 7.6
- The finale
- Rated 8.7 against a 8.1 series average
Season scores are vote-weighted averages of TMDB episode ratings.
The details
- Status
- Ended in 2014
- Network
- FOX
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime
- First aired
- 2001
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