Game of Thrones/Recap

Game of Thrones ran for 73 episodes aired across eight seasons from 2011 to 2019.

Season One (April 17th, 2011 – June 19th, 2011)
The first season of Game of Thrones is based off of Book One of the fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire. The book title, A Game of Thrones, is being used as the overarcing title for the whole TV series. The first season consists of ten episodes, written by the show creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, as well as Jane Espenson, Bryan Cogman and the author of the novels himself, George R. R. Martin.


 * 1) Winter Is Coming
 * 2) The Kingsroad
 * 3) Lord Snow
 * 4) Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things
 * 5) The Wolf and the Lion
 * 6) A Golden Crown
 * 7) You Win or You Die
 * 8) The Pointy End
 * 9) Baelor
 * 10) Fire and Blood

Season Two (April 1, 2012 – June 3, 2012)
The series was renewed for a second season only a few days after the premiere of the first episode. The season is based off of Book Two, A Clash of Kings. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss continued to write most of the episodes, with George R. R. Martin writing one episode as well (#9, entitled "Blackwater"). There are ten episodes.


 * 1) The North Remembers
 * 2) The Night Lands
 * 3) What is Dead May Never Die
 * 4) Garden of Bones
 * 5) The Ghost of Harrenhal
 * 6) The Old Gods and the New
 * 7) A Man Without Honor
 * 8) The Prince of Winterfell
 * 9) Blackwater
 * 10) Valar Morghulis

Season Three (March 31, 2013 – June 9, 2013)
The show's ratings actually improved in season two, so that a third ten episode season was quickly greenlit. As the third book, "A Storm of Swords," is too long to properly fit into that time (having a similar word count to the entirety of The Lord of the Rings), and the ambitious scope of the series precludes making more within a year, Season Three will not contain the entirety of the third book. George R. R. Martin wrote episode #7, "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" (formerly called "Autumn Storms").


 * 1) Valar Dohaeris
 * 2) Dark Wings, Dark Words
 * 3) Walk of Punishment
 * 4) And Now His Watch Is Ended
 * 5) Kissed by Fire
 * 6) The Climb
 * 7) The Bear and the Maiden Fair
 * 8) Second Sons
 * 9) The Rains of Castamere
 * 10) Mhysa

Season Four (April 6, 2014 – June 15, 2014)

 * 1) "Two Swords"
 * 2) "The Lion and the Rose"
 * 3) "Breaker of Chains"
 * 4) "Oathkeeper"
 * 5) "First of His Name"
 * 6) "The Laws of Gods and Men"
 * 7) "Mockingbird"
 * 8) "The Mountain and the Viper"
 * 9) "The Watchers on the Wall"
 * 10) "The Children"

Season Five (April 12, 2015 – June 14, 2015)

 * 1) "The Wars to Come"
 * 2) "The House of Black and White"
 * 3) "High Sparrow"
 * 4) "Sons of the Harpy"
 * 5) "Kill the Boy"
 * 6) "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken"
 * 7) "The Gift"
 * 8) "Hardhome"
 * 9) "The Dance of Dragons"
 * 10) "Mother's Mercy"

Season Six (April 24, 2016 – June 26, 2016)

 * 1) "The Red Woman"
 * 2) "Home"
 * 3) "Oathbreaker"
 * 4) "Book of the Stranger"
 * 5) "The Door"
 * 6) "Blood of My Blood"
 * 7) "The Broken Man"
 * 8) "No One"
 * 9) "Battle of the Bastards"
 * 10) "The Winds of Winter"

Season Seven (July 16, 2017 – August 27, 2017)

 * 1) "Dragonstone"
 * 2) "Stormborn"
 * 3) "The Queen's Justice"
 * 4) "The Spoils of War"
 * 5) "Eastwatch"
 * 6) "Beyond the Wall"
 * 7) "The Dragon and the Wolf"

Season Eight (April 14, 2019 – June 14, 2015)

 * 1) "Winterfell"
 * 2) "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"
 * 3) "The Long Night"
 * 4) "The Last of the Starks"
 * 5) "The Bells"
 * 6) "The Iron Throne"