List of Dexter episodes

Dexter is an American television drama that was broadcast on the premium cable channel Showtime from October 1, 2006, to September 22, 2013.

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.

[4] The pilot episode, which aired in the US on October 1, 2006, attracted more than a million viewers, giving Showtime its highest series ratings in nearly two years.

[5] 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,[6] thus making Dexter the first program in two decades to air on a national broadcast network after being shown on a premium cable channel.

[114][115] 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.