2005 · FOX · Crime, Drama
How long does it take to watch Bones?
Bones takes about 178 hours to watch: 246 episodes across 12 seasons, 10,668 minutes in all.
Updated October 2, 2026
- Episodes
- 246
- Seasons
- 12
- Per episode
- 43 min
- Status
- Ended in 2017
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
Season by season
| Season | Length | Hours | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 16.0h | 22 eps | |
| Season 2 | 15.2h | 21 eps | |
| Season 3 | 10.9h | 15 eps | |
| Season 4 | 18.9h | 26 eps | |
| Season 5 | 15.9h | 22 eps | |
| Season 6 | 16.6h | 23 eps | |
| Season 7 | 9.4h | 13 eps | |
| Season 8 | 17.3h | 24 eps | |
| Season 9 | 17.2h | 24 eps | |
| Season 10 | 15.7h | 22 eps | |
| Season 11 | 16.0h | 22 eps | |
| Season 12 | 8.7h | 12 eps |
Longest: season 4, 18.9 hours. Shortest: season 12, 8.7 hours.
At your pace
- 1 episode a night
- 246 nights, about 8 months
- 3 episodes a night
- 82 nights, about 3 months
- Weekend binges, 8 hours a day
- 12 weekends
- Straight through, no sleep
- 7 days, 9 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 2 8.0
- Lowest-rated season
- Season 8 7.1
Season scores are vote-weighted averages of TMDB episode ratings.
The details
- Status
- Ended in 2017
- Network
- FOX
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- First aired
- 2005
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