2004 · ABC · Mystery, Drama
How long does it take to watch Desperate Housewives?
Desperate Housewives takes about 129 hours to watch: 177 episodes across 8 seasons, 7,743 minutes in all.
Updated October 2, 2026
- Episodes
- 177
- Seasons
- 8
- Per episode
- 44 min
- Status
- Ended in 2012
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death.
Season by season
| Season | Length | Hours | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 16.5h | 23 eps | |
| Season 2 | 17.4h | 23 eps | |
| Season 3 | 16.5h | 23 eps | |
| Season 4 | 12.2h | 17 eps | |
| Season 5 | 17.2h | 24 eps | |
| Season 6 | 16.5h | 23 eps | |
| Season 7 | 16.5h | 22 eps | |
| Season 8 | 16.4h | 22 eps |
Longest: season 2, 17.4 hours. Shortest: season 4, 12.2 hours.
At your pace
- 1 episode a night
- 177 nights, about 6 months
- 3 episodes a night
- 59 nights, about 8 weeks
- Weekend binges, 8 hours a day
- 9 weekends
- Straight through, no sleep
- 5 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 5 8.1
- Lowest-rated season
- Season 7 7.1
Season scores are vote-weighted averages of TMDB episode ratings.
The details
- Status
- Ended in 2012
- Network
- ABC
- Genres
- Mystery, Drama, Comedy
- First aired
- 2004
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