List of Dexter episodes

Dexter is an American television drama that was originally broadcast on the premium cable channel Showtime from October 1, 2006, to September 22, 2013. It has an initial total of 8 seasons which contains 96 episodes. The first continuation, a limited series subtitled New Blood, aired from November 7, 2021, to January 9, 2022. The second continuation subtitled Resurrection, premiered on July 11, 2025, and is planned to contain multiple seasons.

The series is based on characters created by Jeff Lindsay for his Dexter series of novels, and follows the life of Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a Miami Metro Police Department blood pattern analyst with a double life. While investigating murders in the homicide division, Dexter hunts and kills murderers and criminals who have escaped the justice system. Although the first season is based on the events of Darkly Dreaming Dexter, the series's subsequent seasons do not follow the novels in the series. Departing from the narrative of Lindsay's second Dexter novel Dearly Devoted Dexter, the show's writer Daniel Cerone said that the writers "didn't see the opportunity in the second book" to adapt it.

The series has received generally favorable reviews from critics, while the second season was widely praised. The pilot episode, which aired in the United States on October 1, 2006, attracted more than a million viewers, giving Showtime its highest series ratings in nearly two years. Due to a dearth of original programming as a result of the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, CBS began broadcasting Dexter in edited form on free-to-air television on February 17, 2008, thus making Dexter the first program in two decades to air on a national broadcast network after being shown on a premium cable channel. Eight seasons comprising twelve episodes each have been broadcast in the United States and abroad. All eight seasons have been released on DVD and on Blu-ray; box sets containing the first three seasons were released on August 18, 2009, on both DVD and Blu-ray.

The show received multiple nominations for various awards, winning 52—including four Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, seven Satellite Awards, six Saturn Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and one TCA Award—and was twice selected by the American Film Institute as one of the ten best television programs of the year in 2006 and 2007. Other nominations include PGA Awards, WGA Awards, and Peabody Awards.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (2006)

Season 2 (2007)

Season 3 (2008)

Season 4 (2009)

Season 5 (2010)

Season 6 (2011)

Season 7 (2012)

Season 8 (2013)

Dexter: Early Cuts In 2009, Showtime started releasing an animated Dexter webseries. Each story is told in several two-minute chapters, the first three of which were written by series writer and producer Lauren Gussis, and premiered in 2009.DEXTER: Early Cuts An Animated Webseries. TV.com (October 8, 2009). Retrieved on November 30, 2010.Dexter: Early Cuts. Sho.com. Retrieved on November 30, 2010. More episodes were released in 2010 and 2011.

Season 1 (2009–10)

Season 2: Dark Echo (2010)

Season 3: All in the Family (2012)

Ratings

Home releases

+Home releases of DexterSeason DVD release dates Blu-ray release dates Region 1 Region 2 Region 4 Region A Region B 1 August 21, 2007 May 19, 2008 March 3, 2011 January 6, 2009 June 18, 2012 2 August 19, 2008 March 30, 2009 August 20, 2008 May 5, 2009 June 18, 2012 3 August 18, 2009 August 16, 2010 August 18, 2009 August 18, 2009 June 18, 2012 4 August 17, 2010 November 29, 2010 November 4, 2010 August 17, 2010 November 29, 2010 5 August 16, 2011 September 5, 2011 August 17, 2011 August 16, 2011 September 5, 2011 6 August 14, 2012 June 18, 2012 June 20, 2012 August 14, 2012 June 18, 2012 7 May 14, 2013 June 3, 2013 June 19, 2013 May 14, 2013 June 3, 2013 8 November 12, 2013 December 2, 2013 November 27, 2013 November 12, 2013 November 27, 2013

List of Dexter episodes

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