2010 · AMC · Action & Adventure, Drama
How long does it take to watch The Walking Dead?
The Walking Dead takes about 137 hours to watch: 177 episodes across 11 seasons, 8,196 minutes in all.
Updated October 2, 2026
- Episodes
- 177
- Seasons
- 11
- Per episode
- 46 min
- Status
- Ended in 2022
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Season by season
| Season | Length | Hours | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 4.9h | 6 eps | |
| Season 2 | 9.7h | 13 eps | |
| Season 3 | 11.5h | 16 eps | |
| Season 4 | 11.7h | 16 eps | |
| Season 5 | 11.9h | 16 eps | |
| Season 6 | 12.6h | 16 eps | |
| Season 7 | 13.4h | 16 eps | |
| Season 8 | 13.1h | 16 eps | |
| Season 9 | 12.7h | 16 eps | |
| Season 10 | 16.8h | 22 eps | |
| Season 11 | 18.4h | 24 eps |
Longest: season 11, 18.4 hours. Shortest: season 1, 4.9 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, 16 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 8.6
- Lowest-rated season
- Season 7 7.8
Season scores are vote-weighted averages of TMDB episode ratings.
The details
- Status
- Ended in 2022
- Network
- AMC
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- First aired
- 2010
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