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Supernatural

2005TV-1415 seasons8.3 / 10

Saving people, hunting things, the family business.

When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

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Synopsis

When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

Season 1 episodes

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Episode 1

Pilot

46m7.2 / 10

Two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, witness their mother's paranormal death as children and grow up trained to fight by a distraught father who wants nothing more then to hunt down the thing that killed his wife. Sam escapes to college to start a new, normal life, but gets pulled back in after Dean shows up on his doorstep to tell him their father is missing. Following clues from an eerie phone message from him, the boys travel to a small town and encounter a vengeful spirit called the "Woman in White" who then starts to haunt Sam.

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Directed by David NutterWritten by Eric KripkeGuest stars Adrianne Palicki, R. D. Call, Sarah Shahi, Ross Kohn, Steve Railsback, Jamil Walker Smith, Derek Webster, Elizabeth Bond

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Episode 2

Wendigo

43m7.4 / 10

Sam and Dean follow the coordinates left in their father's journal and land in the middle of the woods where they investigate the disappearance of several campers. The two brothers soon learn they are dealing with a Wendigo, a creature made famous in Native America legends. A Wendigo is a former human whose cannibalism has transformed him into a creature with superhuman strength and speed that feasts on human flesh.

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Directed by David NutterWritten by Eric Kripke, Terri Hughes, Ron MilbauerGuest stars Adrianne Palicki, Callum Keith Rennie, Donnelly Rhodes, Cory Monteith, Timothy Webber, Wren Roberts, Tamara Lashley, Rhys Williams

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Episode 3

Dead in the Water

44m7.7 / 10

Sam and Dean investigate a series of mysterious drownings written off as suicides. They discover the spirit is an angry little boy with the power to travel through water who is taking revenge on certain town inhabitants for a dark secret buried long ago. Dean forms a bond with a young boy who seems to have the power of premonition.

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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Sera Gamble, Raelle TuckerGuest stars Daniel Hugh Kelly, Bruce Dawson, Bethoe Shirkoff, Nico McEown, D. Harlan Cutshall, Troy Clare, Amber Borycki, Keira Kabatow

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Episode 4

Phantom Traveler

42m7.7 / 10

On TransNational flight 2485, a man possessed by the spirit of the Phantom Traveler causes the plane to crash, leaving only five survivors left alive. Sam and Dean must exorcise the angry spirit before it attacks the survivors. The brothers realize the only way to do that is to take the battle to the skies.

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Directed by Robert SingerWritten by Richard HatemGuest stars Jaime Ray Newman, Brian Markinson, Paul Jarrett, Geoff Gustafson, Birkett Turton, Daryl Shuttleworth, Fred Henderson, Amanda Wood

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Episode 5

Bloody Mary

43m7.8 / 10

In suburban Nebraska, a group of partying high school teens jokingly dare their friend Charlie to look into the mirror and repeat "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary," not knowing this will unleash a series of mysterious murders. Sam and Dean realize that Bloody Mary has the power to travel through all reflective surfaces when she is hunting a victim. Worried that teens are accidentally summoning Bloody Mary, Sam and Dean race to destroy the violent spirit before she can kill again.

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Directed by Peter EllisWritten by Terri Hughes, Ron Milbauer, Eric KripkeGuest stars Adrianne Palicki, Marnette Patterson, William S. Taylor, Chelan Simmons, Kristie Marsden, Genevieve Buechner, Michael Teigen, James Ashcroft

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Episode 6

Skin

42m7.9 / 10

Sam and Dean come to the aid of Sam's old college buddy after he is accused of a murder he swears he didn't commit. The brothers discover a shapeshifter is adopting the likenesses of others and murdering people. The brothers' race to stop the shapeshifter takes a terrifying turn when he shifts into the likeness of Dean.

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Directed by Robert Duncan McNeillWritten by John ShibanGuest stars Amy Grabow, Peter Shinkoda, Marrett Green, Anita Brown, Shiraine Haas, Aleks Holtz

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Episode 7

Hook Man

41m7.3 / 10

The infamous "Hook Man," a vengeful spirit who kills his victims with a shiny hook that serves as his hand, terrorizes a small college town in Iowa. Sam and Dean learn that all the victims are connected to the daughter of a local minister and race to find and destroy the Hook Man's bones before he comes for them.

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Directed by David JacksonWritten by John ShibanGuest stars Dan Butler, Jane McGregor, Brian Skala, Alf Humphreys, Chelah Horsdal, Sean Millington, Christie Laing, Mike Waterman

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Episode 8

Bugs

44m6.7 / 10

After a construction worker is killed by insects burrowing into his brain, Sam and Dean investigate the town's history and find that the new housing development is being built on sacred Indian land. The Indians put a curse on the land after their reservation had been ravished and destroyed. Sam and Dean must find a way to survive and kill the deadly swarm of bees, locusts, spiders and beetles.

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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Rachel Nave, Bill CoakleyGuest stars Andrew Airlie, Carrie Genzel, Tyler Johnston, Ryan Robbins, Jim Byrnes, Anne Marie DeLuise, Michael Daingerfield, Jimmy Herman

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Episode 9

Home

43m8.3 / 10

Sam is haunted by a vision of a woman trapped in his childhood house and convinces a reluctant Dean that they need to go home. Upon arrival, they meet the woman in Sam's premonition and she reveals that the house is haunted. Looking into their personal history, the brothers discover their father had visited a psychic after their mother's death and they turn to the same woman for answers of their own. Together they discover a malevolent poltergeist has inhabited the house and set out to exorcise it, but are blindsided when another unseen spirit steps in.

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Directed by Ken GirottiWritten by Eric KripkeGuest stars Loretta Devine, Kristin Richardson, Don Thompson, Jerry Rector, Ginger Page, Jamie Schwanebeck, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Samantha Smith

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Episode 10

Asylum

43m7.8 / 10mid season

Sam and Dean investigate an abandoned sanitarium and discover that when the hospital was open, the patients held a revolt against the cruel and unusual punishments inflicted by the head doctor. While the brothers search the premises for four lost college students, the tortured spirits cause them to go insane, turning Dean against Sam.

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Directed by Guy Norman BeeWritten by Richard HatemGuest stars Brooke Nevin, Nicholas D'Agosto, Tom Pickett, Peter Benson, James Purcell, Norman Armour, Karly Warkentin, Nicole LaPlaca

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Episode 11

Scarecrow

43m8.3 / 10

Sam and Dean finally make contact with their father, but he tells them to stop looking for him and sends them on another ghost-hunting job. Frustrated with their father's evasiveness, Sam sets out alone to find him while Dean stays back to obey his father. Dean investigates a small town in Indiana where couples have gone missing the same day each year and discovers the farmers are sacrificing them to a Pagan God who takes the form of a scarecrow.

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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by John Shiban, Patrick Sean SmithGuest stars Nicki Aycox, Tania Saulnier, Tom Butler, P. Lynn Johnson, William B. Davis, Brendan Penny, Brent Stait, David Orth

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Episode 12

Faith

44m8.1 / 10

While battling a demon, Dean is electrocuted, resulting in permanent damage to his heart and leaving him with only a couple of months to live. A despondent Sam searches desperately for a way to save his brother and believes he may have found an answer through a preacher who claims to heal the incurable. However, Dean and Sam discover that the preacher is getting help from the Grim Reaper who is trading one life for another he feels is less worthy.

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Directed by Allan KroekerWritten by Sera Gamble, Raelle TuckerGuest stars Julie Benz, Rebecca Jenkins, Kevin McNulty, Colin Lawrence, Alex Diakun, Gillian Barber, Jim Codrington, Woody Jeffreys

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Episode 13

Route 666

41m7.2 / 10

Dean is contacted by his first love Cassie, an African-America girl, who asks him to come to Mississippi to investigate a string of racially motivated murders. Each murder is linked to a mysterious truck that seems to have no driver and leave no tracks. Sam is stunned to see this new side of his brother as Dean struggles to come to grips with the residual feelings he has for Cassie.

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Directed by Paul ShapiroWritten by Eugenie Ross-Leming, Brad BucknerGuest stars Megalyn Echikunwoke, Kathleen Noone, Alvin Sanders, Gary Hetherington, Dee Jay Jackson, Michael Busswood, Ron Robinson

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Episode 14

Nightmare

43m7.8 / 10

Sam has a premonition in which a man is killed, but the murder is made to look like a suicide. Sam convinces Dean that they must investigate the case, but the two are puzzled when they fail to find anything that indicates that the death was supernatural in nature. That is, until they find out that Max, the reclusive son of the first victim, has been using his recently acquired power of telekinesis to kill the family members that once abused him. Sam also discovers Max's mother was killed by the same fiery demon that took his own mom.

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Directed by Philip SgricciaWritten by Sera Gamble, Raelle TuckerGuest stars Brendan Fletcher, Beth Broderick, Fred Keating, Avery Raskin, Susinn McFarlen, Dalias Blake, Cameron McDonald

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Episode 15

The Benders

43m7.8 / 10

Sam and Dean head to Minnesota where a young boy witnesses a man vanish into thin air. Upon searching for clues, Sam is abducted by what he assumes is a supernatural being, and Dean is left to search frantically for his brother. However, both are stunned when they realize the kidnappers are human, and using the captives as human prey for a twisted hunting expedition.

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Directed by Peter EllisWritten by John ShibanGuest stars John Dennis Johnston, Jessica Steen, Johnny Cuthbert, Alexia Fast, Ken Kirzinger, Shawn Reis, Ryan Drescher, Sandra Steier

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Episode 16

Shadow

42m8.0 / 10

Sam has a reunion with a girl he once met, Meg, but it turns out that she is using the brothers to lure their father John to his doom.

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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Eric KripkeGuest stars Nimet Kanji, Lorena Gale, Melanie Papalia, Nicki Aycox, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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Episode 17

Hell House

41m7.7 / 10

Sam and Dean investigate the case of a maniacal ghost inhabiting a long abandoned Texas farmhouse known as "Hell House." They believe the ghost is the spirit of a deceased Depression-era farmer who killed his family, but they soon realize it is something far more powerful.

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Directed by Chris LongWritten by Trey CallawayGuest stars Shane Meier, Kyle Labine, Agam Darshi, Britt Irvin, A.J. Buckley, Travis Wester, Krista Bell, Colby Johannson

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Episode 18

Something Wicked

42m7.9 / 10

Sam and Dean battle a Shtriga, a witch that sneaks into childrens' bedrooms and sucks the lives out of them. Dean must relive his childhood when he remembers that he encountered the Shtriga years ago.

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Directed by Whitney RansickWritten by Daniel KnaufGuest stars Mary Black, Alex Ferris, Venus Terzo, Ari Cohen, Jeannie Epper, Adrian Hough, Erica Carroll, Ridge Canipe

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Episode 19

Provenance

44m8.2 / 10

The Winchesters must deal with a dangerous spirit bound to an old family portrait that brings misfortune and death to anyone who buys it.

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Directed by Philip SgricciaWritten by David EhrmanGuest stars Jodelle Ferland, Taylor Cole, Jay Brazeau, Linden Banks, Keith Martin Gordey, Curtis Caravaggio, Joshua D. Clark, Sarah Mutch

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Episode 20

Dead Man's Blood

42m7.7 / 10

To obtain a mystic gun capable of destroying the demon that killed their mother, Sam and Dean must team up with their father John and face off against vampires.

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Directed by Tony WharmbyWritten by Cathryn Humphris, John ShibanGuest stars Terence Kelly, Damon Runyan, Brenda Campbell, Dominic Zamprogna, Warren Christie, Sean Tyson, Anne Openshaw, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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Episode 21

Salvation

41m8.3 / 10

John has realized where the demon will strike next and the Winchesters head there to stop the next killing. But Meg begins killing John's friends and demands the Colt or she'll keep going until everyone John knows is dead.

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Directed by Robert SingerWritten by Sera Gamble, Raelle TuckerGuest stars Sebastian Spence, Erin Karpluk, David Lovgren, Serinda Swan, Rondel Reynoldson, Nicki Aycox, Josh Blacker, Richard Sali

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Episode 22

Devil's Trap

43m8.5 / 10finale

When Meg boasts that John is her prisoner, the boys visit a friend of their father's to get information about demonic possessions and ways to trap a demon. It turns out Meg is not what she appears.

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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Eric KripkeGuest stars Sebastian Spence, Nicki Aycox, Matt Riley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jim Beaver

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Episode information updated Sep 8, 2026

More about Supernatural

Cast

Jared PadaleckiSam Winchester
Jensen AcklesDean Winchester
Amanda TappingNaomi
Misha CollinsCastiel
Mark SheppardCrowley
Alaina HuffmanAbaddon
David Haydn-JonesArthur Ketch
Mark PellegrinoLucifer

Credits

Created by
Eric Kripke

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
327
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • The WBUnited States
  • The CWUnited States
  • Kripke EnterprisesUnited States
  • Supernatural PicturesUnited States
  • Wonderland Sound and VisionUnited States
  • Warner Bros. TelevisionUnited States

Themes

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