Episodes
There were twenty-three episodes in the first season, including the two part pilot episode written by Anthony Zuiker, the series' creator. There were twenty-three episodes each of the three following (Seasons two to four). There were twenty-five episodes in Season five and twenty-four in Seasons six and seven. There were only 17 episodes in Season 8, due to the WGA strike, 24 in Season 9, 23 in Season 10, 22 in Season 11 and 22 in Season 12. The total number of aired episodes to date is 281.
The 2004–2005 season finale, directed by Quentin Tarantino and titled "Grave Danger", was watched by over 35 million viewers on May 19, 2005, twice that of the nearest competition.
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“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
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—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)