How many seasons of The Vampire Diaries are there?
How many seasons of The Vampire Diaries are there?
How many seasons of The Vampire Diaries are there? (Source: Amazon Prime Video)
The Vampire Diaries consists of 8 seasons with 171 episodes and one special.
Based on the books of Lisa Jane Smith of the same name, The Vampire Diaries is an American teen drama series in the supernatural genre following the life of a teenage girl named Elena Gilbert (portrayed by Nina Dobrev) who lives in Mystic Falls, a fictional town in Virginia.
Elena is your typical teenage girl who goes through a traumatic, life-changing experience, the death of both her parents. Like any teenage girl, Elena falls in love with a guy named Stefan Salvatore, but what she doesn’t know is that Stefan is a 161-year-old vampire. As their love blossoms, their relationship becomes that much more complicated as Stefan’s older brother Damon comes back to town and Stefan’s mysterious past comes to light little by little.
List of The Vampire Diaries episodes
Here is a list of all 171 episodes and one special of The Vampire Diaries spanning over 8 seasons:
Season 1 (2009–10)
No. Overall
No. in Season
Title
Original Air Date
1
1
Pilot
September 10, 2009
2
2
The Night of the Comet
September 17, 2009
3
3
Friday Night Bites
September 24, 2009
4
4
Family Ties
October 1, 2009
5
5
You're Undead to Me
October 8, 2009
6
6
Lost Girls
October 15, 2009
7
7
Haunted
October 29, 2009
8
8
162 Candles
November 5, 2009
9
9
History Repeating
November 12, 2009
10
10
The Turning Point
November 19, 2009
11
11
Bloodlines
January 21, 2010
12
12
Unpleasantville
January 28, 2010
13
13
Children of the Damned
February 4, 2010
14
14
Fool Me Once
February 11, 2010
15
15
A Few Good Men
March 25, 2010
16
16
There Goes the Neighborhood
April 1, 2010
17
17
Let the Right One In
April 8, 2010
18
18
Under Control
April 15, 2010
19
19
Miss Mystic Falls
April 22, 2010
20
20
Blood Brothers
April 29, 2010
21
21
Isobel
May 6, 2010
22
22
Founder's Day
May 13, 2010
Season 2 (2010–11)
No. Overall
No. in Season
Title
Original Air Date
23
1
The Return
September 9, 2010
24
2
Brave New World
September 16, 2010
25
3
Bad Moon Rising
September 23, 2010
26
4
Memory Lane
September 30, 2010
27
5
Kill or Be Killed
October 7, 2010
28
6
Plan B
October 21, 2010
29
7
Masquerade
October 28, 2010
30
8
Rose
November 4, 2010
31
9
Katerina
November 11, 2010
32
10
The Sacrifice
December 2, 2010
33
11
By the Light of the Moon
December 9, 2010
34
12
The Descent
January 27, 2011
35
13
Daddy Issues
February 3, 2011
36
14
Crying Wolf
February 10, 2011
37
15
The Dinner Party
February 17, 2011
38
16
The House Guest
February 24, 2011
39
17
Know Thy Enemy
April 7, 2011
40
18
The Last Dance
April 14, 2011
41
19
Klaus
April 21, 2011
42
20
The Last Day
April 28, 2011
43
21
The Sun Also Rises
May 5, 2011
44
22
As I Lay Dying
May 12, 2011
Season 3 (2011–12)
No. Overall
No. in Season
Title
Original Air Date
45
1
The Birthday
September 15, 2011
46
2
The Hybrid
September 22, 2011
47
3
The End of the Affair
September 29, 2011
48
4
Disturbing Behavior
October 6, 2011
49
5
The Reckoning
October 13, 2011
50
6
Smells Like Teen Spirit
October 20, 2011
51
7
Ghost World
October 27, 2011
52
8
Ordinary People
November 3, 2011
53
9
Homecoming
November 10, 2011
54
10
The New Deal
January 5, 2012
55
11
Our Town
January 12, 2012
56
12
The Ties That Bind
January 19, 2012
57
13
Bringing Out the Dead
February 2, 2012
58
14
Dangerous Liaisons
February 9, 2012
59
15
All My Children
February 16, 2012
60
16
1912
March 15, 2012
61
17
Break On Through
March 22, 2012
62
18
The Murder of One
March 29, 2012
63
19
Heart of Darkness
April 19, 2012
64
20
Do Not Go Gentle
April 26, 2012
65
21
Before Sunset
May 3, 2012
66
22
The Departed
May 10, 2012
Season 4 (2012–13)
No. Overall
No. in Season
Title
Original Air Date
67
1
Growing Pains
October 11, 2012
68
2
Memorial
October 18, 2012
69
3
The Rager
October 25, 2012
70
4
The Five
November 1, 2012
71
5
The Killer
November 8, 2012
72
6
We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes
November 15, 2012
73
7
My Brother's Keeper
November 29, 2012
74
8
We'll Always Have Bourbon Street
December 6, 2012
75
9
O Come, All Ye Faithful
December 13, 2012
76
10
After School Special
January 17, 2013
77
11
Catch Me If You Can
January 24, 2013
78
12
A View to a Kill
January 31, 2013
79
13
Into the Wild
February 7, 2013
80
14
Down the Rabbit Hole
February 14, 2013
81
15
Stand by Me
February 21, 2013
82
16
Bring It On
March 14, 2013
83
17
Because the Night
March 21, 2013
84
18
American Gothic
March 28, 2013
85
19
Pictures of You
April 18, 2013
86
20
The Originals
April 25, 2013
87
21
She's Come Undone
May 2, 2013
88
22
The Walking Dead
May 9, 2013
89
23
Graduation
May 16, 2013
Season 5 (2013–14)
No. Overall
No. in Season
Title
Original Air Date
90
1
I Know What You Did Last Summer
October 3, 2013
91
2
True Lies
October 10, 2013
92
3
Original Sin
October 17, 2013
93
4
For Whom the Bell Tolls
October 24, 2013
94
5
Monster's Ball
October 31, 2013
95
6
Handle with Care
November 7, 2013
96
7
Death and the Maiden
November 14, 2013
97
8
Dead Man on Campus
November 21, 2013
98
9
The Cell
December 5, 2013
99
10
Fifty Shades of Grayson
December 12, 2013
100
11
500 Years of Solitude
January 23, 2014
101
12
The Devil Inside
January 30, 2014
102
13
Total Eclipse of the Heart
February 6, 2014
103
14
No Exit
February 27, 2014
104
15
Gone Girl
March 6, 2014
105
16
While You Were Sleeping
March 20, 2014
106
17
Rescue Me
March 27, 2014
107
18
Resident Evil
April 17, 2014
108
19
Man on Fire
April 24, 2014
109
20
What Lies Beneath
May 1, 2014
110
21
Promised Land
May 8, 2014
111
22
Home
May 15, 2014
Season 6 (2014–15)
No. Overall
No. in Season
Title
Original Air Date
112
1
I'll Remember
October 2, 2014
113
2
Yellow Ledbetter
October 9, 2014
114
3
Welcome to Paradise
October 16, 2014
115
4
Black Hole Sun
October 23, 2014
116
5
The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
October 30, 2014
117
6
The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
November 6, 2014
118
7
Do You Remember the First Time?
November 13, 2014
119
8
Fade Into You
November 20, 2014
120
9
I Alone
December 4, 2014
121
10
Christmas Through Your Eyes
December 11, 2014
122
11
Woke Up with a Monster
January 22, 2015
123
12
Prayer for the Dying
January 29, 2015
124
13
The Day I Tried to Live
February 5, 2015
125
14
Stay
February 12, 2015
126
15
Let Her Go
February 19, 2015
127
16
The Downward Spiral
March 12, 2015
128
17
A Bird in a Gilded Cage
March 19, 2015
129
18
I Never Could Love Like That
April 16, 2015
130
19
Because
April 23, 2015
131
20
I'd Leave My Happy Home for You
April 30, 2015
132
21
I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime
May 7, 2015
133
22
I'm Thinking of You All the While
May 14, 2015
Season 7 (2015–16)
No. Overall
No. in Season
Title
Original Air Date
134
1
Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take
October 8, 2015
135
2
Never Let Me Go
October 15, 2015
136
3
Age of Innocence
October 22, 2015
137
4
I Carry Your Heart with Me
October 29, 2015
138
5
Live Through This
November 5, 2015
139
6
Best Served Cold
November 12, 2015
140
7
Mommie Dearest
November 19, 2015
141
8
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
December 3, 2015
142
9
Cold as Ice
December 10, 2015
143
10
Hell Is Other People
January 29, 2016
144
11
Things We Lost in the Fire
February 5, 2016
145
12
Postcards from the Edge
February 12, 2016
146
13
This Woman's Work
February 19, 2016
147
14
Moonlight on the Bayou
February 26, 2016
148
15
I Would for You
March 4, 2016
149
16
Days of Future Past
April 1, 2016
150
17
I Went to the Woods
April 8, 2016
151
18
One Way or Another
April 15, 2016
152
19
Somebody That I Used to Know
April 22, 2016
153
20
Kill 'Em All
April 29, 2016
154
21
Requiem for a Dream
May 6, 2016
155
22
Gods and Monsters
May 13, 2016
Season 8 (2016–17)
No. Overall
No. in Season
Title
Original Air Date
156
1
Hello, Brother
October 21, 2016
157
2
Today Will Be Different
October 28, 2016
158
3
You Decided That I Was Worth Saving
November 4, 2016
159
4
An Eternity of Misery
November 11, 2016
160
5
Coming Home Was a Mistake
November 18, 2016
161
6
Detoured on Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell
December 2, 2016
162
7
The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You
December 9, 2016
163
8
We Have History Together
January 13, 2017
164
9
The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch
January 20, 2017
165
10
Nostalgia's a Bitch
January 27, 2017
166
11
You Made a Choice to Be Good
February 3, 2017
167
12
What Are You?
February 10, 2017
168
13
The Lies Will Catch Up to You
February 17, 2017
169
14
It's Been a Hell of a Ride
February 24, 2017
170
15
We're Planning a June Wedding
March 3, 2017
171
16
I Was Feeling Epic
March 10, 2017
The Vampire Diaries Special
No.
Title
Original Air Date
1.
Forever Yours
March 10, 2017
FAQs about The Vampire Diaries
A. The Vampire Diaries consists of 8 seasons with 171 episodes and one special.
A. The Vampire Diaries follows the story of Elena, a typical teenage girl who goes through a traumatic, life-changing experience, the death of both her parents. Elena falls in love with Stefan Salvatore but what she doesn’t know is that Stefan is a 161-year-old vampire.
A. The Vampire Diaries is available on HBO Max and Peacock to stream with a subscription.
