How many seasons of Friends are there?
Friends has 10 seasons and 236 episodes in total. The sitcom aired on NBC in the United States from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004.
The show followed six friends living in Manhattan: Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler and Ross, played by Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer. Most seasons had 24 episodes, though the final season had 18, including the two-part finale.
Friends was a huge ratings success and won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2002. By the later seasons, each main cast member was earning about one million dollars per episode, among the highest salaries in TV history at the time.
After the finale
The final episode, The Last One, aired in May 2004 and drew about 52 million viewers in the United States. A spinoff, Joey, ran for two seasons. In 2021, the cast reunited for Friends: The Reunion. Matthew Perry died in October 2023.
Did You Know?
Each episode title of Friends begins with The One With or The One Where, except the pilot and the final episode.