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title: "How long to watch Friends? about 87 hours"
description: "Friends takes about 87 hours — 236 episodes across 10 seasons. What that assumes, how it breaks down, and how long at a realistic pace."
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# How long does it take to watch Friends?

**How long to watch Friends: about 87 hours**

236 episodes across 10 seasons

Friends is the show people most often binge in a single stretch, and at 87 hours it is genuinely feasible in a fortnight of evenings. It is a fixed, finished quantity: 236 episodes, ten seasons, no revivals folded in, no runtime drift. The 2021 reunion special is not an episode and is excluded here — it is 104 minutes of people sitting on a sofa remembering the show, not more of the show. Syndicated cuts trim a minute or two per episode to fit more advertising, so a total assembled from broadcast reruns comes out several hours shorter than the streaming versions.

## The numbers

- **Total:** 3 days 14 hours
- **In hours:** 86.5 hours
- **Non-stop:** 3.6 days without sleeping
- **Covers:** 236 episodes across 10 seasons
- **At a realistic pace:** an episode a day
- **That works out as:** about 236 days

## What this assumes

236 episodes at 22 minutes, the programme length of a US network half-hour without adverts. Double-length episodes exist but were broadcast as two parts and are counted as two.

## Other tv series

| What | How long |
| --- | --- |
| The Simpsons | 12 days 8 hours |
| Breaking Bad | about 49 hours |
| Better Call Saul | about 50 hours |
| The Office (US) | about 74 hours |
| The Office (UK) | about 7 hours 23 minutes |
| Game of Thrones | about 69 hours |
| The Sopranos | about 79 hours |
| The Wire | about 59 hours |
| Grey's Anatomy | 13 days 21 hours |
| Seinfeld | about 66 hours |
| Modern Doctor Who | about 157 hours |
| Classic Doctor Who | about 290 hours |
| Star Trek: The Original Series | about 67 hours |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation | about 134 hours |
| All of Star Trek | 22 days 1 hour |

## Common questions

### How long does it take to watch Friends?

about 87 hours — 236 episodes across 10 seasons.

### What does that assume?

236 episodes at 22 minutes, the programme length of a US network half-hour without adverts. Double-length episodes exist but were broadcast as two parts and are counted as two.

### How long at a realistic pace?

an episode a day — about 236 days.

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## Sources

- Calculated on this page — At One Place (/about/)