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The Vampire Diaries
171 episodes · 8 seasons · The CW · 2009
The Vampire Diaries: 171 TV episodes in this catalogue. The Essentials keeps 139 episodes (81% of the catalogue).
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Season 122 episodes · 18 in The Essentials
01×01Pilot
01×02The Night of the Comet
01×03Friday Night Bites
01×04Family Ties
01×05You're Undead to Me
01×06Lost Girls
01×07Haunted
01×08162 Candles
01×09History Repeating
01×10The Turning Point
01×11Bloodlines
01×12Unpleasantville
01×13Children of the Damned
01×14Fool Me Once
01×15A Few Good Men
01×16There Goes the Neighborhood
01×17Let the Right One In
01×18Under Control
01×19Miss Mystic Falls
01×20Blood Brothers
01×21Isobel
01×22Founder's Day
Season 222 episodes · 20 in The Essentials
02×01The Return
02×02Brave New World
02×03Bad Moon Rising
02×04Memory Lane
02×05Kill or Be Killed
02×06Plan B
02×07Masquerade
02×08Rose
02×09Katerina
02×10The Sacrifice
02×11By the Light of the Moon
02×12The Descent
02×13Daddy Issues
02×14Crying Wolf
02×15The Dinner Party
02×16The House Guest
02×17Know Thy Enemy
02×18The Last Dance
02×19Klaus
02×20The Last Day
02×21The Sun Also Rises
02×22As I Lay Dying
Season 322 episodes · 19 in The Essentials
03×01The Birthday
03×02The Hybrid
03×03The End of the Affair
03×04Disturbing Behavior
03×05The Reckoning
03×06Smells Like Teen Spirit
03×07Ghost World
03×08Ordinary People
03×09Homecoming
03×10The New Deal
03×11Our Town
03×12The Ties That Bind
03×13Bringing Out the Dead
03×14Dangerous Liaisons
03×15All My Children
03×161912
03×17Break on Through
03×18The Murder of One
03×19Heart of Darkness
03×20Do Not Go Gentle
03×21Before Sunset
03×22The Departed
Season 423 episodes · 17 in The Essentials
04×01Growing Pains
04×02Memorial
04×03The Rager
04×04The Five
04×05The Killer
04×06We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes
04×07My Brother's Keeper
04×08We'll Always Have Bourbon Street
04×09O Come, All Ye Faithful
04×10After School Special
04×11Catch Me If You Can
04×12A View to a Kill
04×13Into the Wild
04×14Down the Rabbit Hole
04×15Stand by Me
04×16Bring It On
04×17Because the Night
04×18American Gothic
04×19Pictures of You
04×20The Originals
04×21She's Come Undone
04×22The Walking Dead
04×23Graduation
Season 522 episodes · 17 in The Essentials
05×01I Know What You Did Last Summer
05×02True Lies
05×03Original Sin
05×04For Whom the Bell Tolls
05×05Monster's Ball
05×06Handle with Care
05×07Death and the Maiden
05×08Dead Man on Campus
05×09The Cell
05×10Fifty Shades of Grayson
05×11500 Years of Solitude
05×12The Devil Inside
05×13Total Eclipse of the Heart
05×14No Exit
05×15Gone Girl
05×16While You Were Sleeping
05×17Rescue Me
05×18Resident Evil
05×19Man on Fire
05×20What Lies Beneath
05×21Promised Land
05×22Home
Season 622 episodes · 18 in The Essentials
06×01I'll Remember
06×02Yellow Ledbetter
06×03Welcome to Paradise
06×04Black Hole Sun
06×05The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
06×06The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
06×07Do You Remember the First Time?
06×08Fade Into You
06×09I Alone
06×10Christmas Through Your Eyes
06×11Woke Up with a Monster
06×12Prayer for the Dying
06×13The Day I Tried to Live
06×14Stay
06×15Let Her Go
06×16The Downward Spiral
06×17A Bird in a Gilded Cage
06×18I Could Never Love Like That
06×19Because
06×20I'd Leave My Happy Home for You
06×21I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime
06×22I'm Thinking of You All the While
Season 722 episodes · 17 in The Essentials
07×01Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take
07×02Never Let Me Go
07×03Age of Innocence
07×04I Carry Your Heart with Me
07×05Live Through This
07×06Best Served Cold
07×07Mommie Dearest
07×08Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
07×09Cold as Ice
07×10Hell is Other People
07×11Things We Lost in the Fire
07×12Postcards from the Edge
07×13This Woman's Work
07×14Moonlight on the Bayou
07×15I Would for You
07×16Days of Future Past
07×17I Went to the Woods
07×18One Way or Another
07×19Somebody That I Used to Know
07×20Kill 'Em All
07×21Requiem for a Dream
07×22Gods and Monsters
Season 816 episodes · 13 in The Essentials
08×01Hello Brother
08×02Today Will Be Different
08×03You Decided That I Was Worth Saving
08×04An Eternity of Misery
08×05Coming Home Was a Mistake
08×06Detoured on Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell
08×07The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You
08×08We Have History Together
08×09The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch
08×10Nostalgia's a Bitch
08×11You Made a Choice to Be Good
08×12What Are You?
08×13The Lies Will Catch Up with You
08×14It's Been a Hell of a Ride
08×15We're Planning a June Wedding
08×16I Was Feeling Epic
Where the story lives
Arc membership is derived from each episode's own title and summary text. It shows where a thread is foregrounded, not every episode it touches.
The Salvatore brothers
138/170 kept · spine
Elena
111/134 kept · spine
Caroline, Tyler and the hybrids
109/133 kept · spine
Bonnie and the witches
93/117 kept · spine
Katherine and the Originals
55/67 kept · spine
The Travelers, the Heretics and Cade
40/48 kept · spine
The cure and the hunters
23/29 kept · spine
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Common questions
How many episodes of The Vampire Diaries are there?
Our stored catalogue lists 171 TV episodes across 8 seasons. For ongoing shows, this is not a live count of aired episodes.
Which episodes of The Vampire Diaries can I skip?
The Essentials keeps 139 of the 171 episodes in our catalogue. Read the path's coverage before treating omitted episodes as optional.
How long does it take to watch The Vampire Diaries?
At two episodes per viewing day, our 171-episode catalogue takes 86 viewing days. Episode lengths vary, and days off extend the calendar time.
Does The Vampire Diaries have filler?
32 episodes sit outside our selected route. That does not mean they are non-canon or poor episodes; it depends on the story you want to follow.
