List of Glee episodes facts for kids
Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that aired on Fox. It was created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan. The pilot episode of the series was broadcast on May 19, 2009, and the rest of the first season began on September 9, 2009. Fox initially ordered thirteen episodes of Glee, picking the show up for a full season on September 21, 2009, ordering nine more episodes. The remainder of the first season aired for nine consecutive weeks starting on April 13, 2010, and ending on June 8, 2010, when the season finale was broadcast.
The series focuses on a high school show choir, also known as a glee club, in the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) takes over the glee club after the former teacher (Stephen Tobolowsky) is fired for inappropriate contact with a male student. With a rag-tag group of misfit teenagers, Will attempts to restore the glee club to its former glory while tending to his developing feelings for his co-worker Emma (Jayma Mays), as well as defending the glee club's existence from the conniving cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch). A major focus of the series is the students in the glee club: their relationships as couples, their love of singing and desire for popularity coming into conflict due to their membership in the low-status club, and the many vicissitudes of life in high school and as a teenager.
The series' sixth and final season premiered on January 9, 2015, and ended on March 20 of the same year. During the course of the series, 121 episodes of Glee aired.
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Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Average total viewers including DVR (millions) |
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| 1 | 22 | May 19, 2009 | June 8, 2010 | 9.77 | 33 | |
| 2 | 22 | September 21, 2010 | May 24, 2011 | 10.11 | 43 | |
| 3 | 22 | September 20, 2011 | May 22, 2012 | 8.71 | 56 | |
| 4 | 22 | September 13, 2012 | May 9, 2013 | 8.26 | 50 | |
| 5 | 20 | September 26, 2013 | May 13, 2014 | 4.57 | 105 | |
| 6 | 13 | January 9, 2015 | March 20, 2015 | 3.14 | 148 | |
Episodes
Season 1 (2009–10)
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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
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| Original release | May 19, 2009 – June 8, 2010 |
The first season of the musical comedy-drama television show Glee originally premiered on May 19, 2009 and ended on June 8, 2010 on FOX in the United States. The first season had 22 episodes and was produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Ryan Murphy Television. The first season features the "New Directions" glee club at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. It also shows the glee club in several competitions; local, regional and nationals which was held in New York City.
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Actors Mark Salling, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Dianna Agron, Amber Riley, Jenna Ushkowitz, Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith (clockwise from upper left) star as members of the glee club.
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:Primera temporada de Glee para niños
Season 2 (2010–11)
"The Sue Sylvester Shuffle" (episode 11), broadcast immediately after Super Bowl XLV on February 6, 2011, was watched by 26.8 million viewers in the U.S., as the highest-rated scripted TV broadcast in 3 years.
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| Original release | September 21, 2010 – May 24, 2011 |
The second season of the musical comedy-drama television show Glee originally premiered on September 21, 2010 and ended on May 24, 2011 on FOX in the United States. The second season had 22 episodes and was produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Ryan Murphy Television. Dante Di Loreto became the executive producer while Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, the show co-creators, remained writing the episodes along with Ian Brennan. The second season features the "New Directions" glee club at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. It also shows the glee club in several competitions; local, regional and nationals which was held in New York City.
The second season's main cast were; director of glee club Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), and glee club members Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale), Brittany Pierce (Heather Morris), Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith), Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer), Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley), Noah "Puck" Puckerman (Mark Salling), Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron), Rachel Berry (Lea Michele), Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera), Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz) and Will's ex-wife Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig). Kurt's father Burt (Mike O'Malley) becomes a main character in this season.
Each episode of the second season received positive reviews from music and television journalists, however, the entire season was given a more mixed reception. The musical performances in the second season had more dance numbers and cover versions than the first season. The show released five soundtrack albums and over one hundred digital singles. The cast broke the record for "most charted songs by an act" in the 52-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The singles "Teenage Dream" (originally recorded by Katy Perry) and "Loser Like Me" (an original song), were the first to have over 200,000 downloads in their first week of release in the US. Both had also charted in the top ten in the US and Canada, and were certified Gold in the US. The second season was nominated for twelve Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, five Satellite Awards and over fifty other awards. There has been three DVDs to have been released with episodes from the season: Glee - Season 2, Volume 1 which includes episodes one through ten, Glee - Season 2, Volume 2 which includes episodes eleven through twenty-two, and Glee - The Complete Second Season.
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Naya Rivera (left) and Heather Morris (right) were both promoted to the main cast in the second season of the series.
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Darren Criss's rendition of "Teenage Dream" by Katy Perry (pictured) attained the highest first-day and first-week sales of any Glee song to date.
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:Segunda temporada de Glee para niños
Season 3 (2011–12)
Glee (season 3)
Season 4 (2012–13)
Glee (season 4)
Season 5 (2013–14)
Glee (season 5)
Season 6 (2015)
Glee (season 6)
Ratings
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | |||
| 1 | 9.62 | 7.50 | 6.69 | 6.63 | 7.40 | 7.28 | 7.65 | 7.15 | 7.53 | 7.36 | 8.17 | 8.15 | 8.13 | 13.66 | 12.98 | 12.18 | 11.62 | 11.57 | 11.47 | 11.37 | 9.02 | 11.07 | 9.28 | |
| 2 | 12.45 | 13.51 | 11.20 | 11.36 | 11.76 | 10.99 | 11.70 | 10.41 | 11.68 | 11.07 | 28.32 | 11.58 | 10.53 | 11.58 | 11.92 | 11.15 | 9.80 | 8.62 | 8.85 | 9.29 | 8.87 | 11.80 | 11.75 | |
| 3 | 9.21 | 8.60 | 8.42 | 7.47 | 6.91 | 7.08 | 7.90 | 7.11 | 7.13 | 7.50 | 9.07 | 7.81 | 6.99 | 7.46 | 6.76 | 6.23 | 6.90 | 6.01 | 6.67 | 6.09 | 6.03 | 7.46 | 7.31 | |
| 4 | 7.41 | 7.46 | 5.79 | 6.07 | 5.68 | 5.22 | 4.62 | 5.39 | 5.43 | 5.26 | 6.79 | 5.48 | 6.03 | 5.13 | 6.72 | 5.37 | 5.91 | 6.67 | 6.14 | 5.24 | 5.19 | 5.91 | 5.86 | |
| 5 | 5.06 | 4.42 | 7.39 | 4.02 | 4.22 | 4.09 | 2.84 | 3.29 | 2.99 | 2.68 | 2.30 | 2.80 | 2.68 | 2.59 | 2.78 | 2.44 | 2.45 | 2.41 | 2.10 | 1.87 | N/A | 3.27 | ||
| 6 | 2.34 | 2.34 | 1.98 | 1.82 | 1.85 | 1.58 | 1.81 | 1.86 | 1.69 | 1.81 | 2.02 | 2.69 | 2.54 | N/A | 2.03 | |||||||||
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:Episodios de Glee para niños
- Glee albums discography
- Glee songs discography
- List of songs in Glee
