2005 · NBC · Comedy
How long does it take to watch The Office?
The Office takes about 77 hours to watch: 186 episodes across 9 seasons, 4,601 minutes in all.
Updated October 2, 2026
- Episodes
- 186
- Seasons
- 9
- Per episode
- 25 min
- Status
- Ended in 2013
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
Season by season
| Season | Length | Hours | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 2.3h | 6 eps | |
| Season 2 | 8.2h | 22 eps | |
| Season 3 | 9.8h | 23 eps | |
| Season 4 | 6.8h | 14 eps | |
| Season 5 | 10.2h | 26 eps | |
| Season 6 | 9.9h | 24 eps | |
| Season 7 | 10.2h | 24 eps | |
| Season 8 | 9.2h | 24 eps | |
| Season 9 | 10.2h | 23 eps |
Longest: season 5, 10.2 hours. Shortest: season 1, 2.3 hours.
At your pace
- 1 episode a night
- 186 nights, about 6 months
- 3 episodes a night
- 62 nights, about 2 months
- Weekend binges, 8 hours a day
- 5 weekends
- Straight through, no sleep
- 3 days, 4 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 3 8.3
- Lowest-rated season
- Season 8 7.6
- The finale
- Rated 9.0 against a 8.0 series average
Season scores are vote-weighted averages of TMDB episode ratings.
The details
- Status
- Ended in 2013
- Network
- NBC
- Genres
- Comedy
- First aired
- 2005
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