2005 · FOX · Action & Adventure, Crime
How long does it take to watch Prison Break?
Prison Break takes about 66 hours to watch: 88 episodes across 5 seasons, 3,949 minutes in all.
Updated October 2, 2026
- Episodes
- 88
- Seasons
- 5
- Per episode
- 45 min
- Status
- Ended in 2017
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
Season by season
| Season | Length | Hours | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 16.4h | 22 eps | |
| Season 2 | 16.5h | 22 eps | |
| Season 3 | 9.6h | 13 eps | |
| Season 4 | 16.5h | 22 eps | |
| Season 5 | 6.8h | 9 eps |
Longest: season 2, 16.5 hours. Shortest: season 5, 6.8 hours.
At your pace
- 1 episode a night
- 88 nights, about 3 months
- 3 episodes a night
- 30 nights, about 4 weeks
- Weekend binges, 8 hours a day
- 5 weekends
- Straight through, no sleep
- 2 days, 17 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 1 8.5
- Lowest-rated season
- Season 5 7.8
Season scores are vote-weighted averages of TMDB episode ratings.
The details
- Status
- Ended in 2017
- Network
- FOX
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama
- First aired
- 2005
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