20/20 (1978)

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20/20 is an American television newsmagazine that has been broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. Created by ABC News executive Roone Arledge, the show was designed similarly to CBS's 60 Minutes but focuses more on human interest stories than international and political subjects. The program's name derives from the "20/20" measurement of visual acuity. The hour-long program has been a staple on Friday evenings for much of the time since it moved to that timeslot from Thursdays in September 1987, though special editions of the program occasionally air on other nights.

IMDb rating: 6.8 (3,121 votes)
Episode average: 7.3 ↑ +0.5 vs IMDb
Seasons: 13
Streaming (US): Hulu · Disney+
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 13 seasons indexed

Seasons

Season 35 (2012)

6.58 avg 4 episodes 7.4 → 5.2 57 min avg

Season 35 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Nasty Neighbors	7.4	8
2	Best in TV: The Greatest TV Shows of Our Time	6.4	18
5	Stalked!	7.3	8
8	The Sixth Sense	5.2	9

Season 38 (2015)

7.13 avg 4 episodes 8.4 → 7.4 57 min avg

Season 38 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
37	Since the Day I Was Born	8.4	9
38	What If?	7.0	7
47	Evidence of Love	5.7	9
50	Tragedy on TV	7.4	10

Season 39 (2015)

7.39 avg 20 episodes 5.8 → 7.6 57 min avg

Season 39 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
2	What the Doctor Ordered	5.8	7
3	The O.J. Simpson Tapes	7.4	14
5	Unfriended	6.2	17
6	A Case of Affluenza	7.4	13
8	Troublemaker	8.0	20
9	Mystery on the Hudson	6.3	12
11	Meet the Trumps	3.4	16
13	The Woman in the Video	6.2	7
18	End of the Road	8.0	10
19	The Mystery on Johnsburg Road (II)	8.1	9
23	A Capitol Offense	8.1	10
24	Since the Day I Was Born	8.7	10
25	A Dangerous Intersection	7.0	14
26	Silence Broken: A Mother's Reckoning	8.2	10
28	What the Camera Didn't See	8.6	7
29	Journey to the Oscars	8.0	9
30	Mystery in Apartment 410	7.8	13
31	Breaking Point: Heroin in America	9.2	8
33	Footprints in the Snow	7.8	7
34	After Midnight	7.6	10

Season 40 (2016)

7.41 avg 33 episodes 8.0 → 8.1 62 min avg

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Season 40 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Episode #40.1	8.0	8
2	In-Laws and Outlaws	7.2	14
3	Love, Hope, Faith	7.2	7
4	Rear Window	7.8	10
5	Her Last Chance	7.2	10
6	What Happened to Jackie?	8.3	11
7	How to Get Away with Murder	8.0	15
12	The Real Designated Survivor	8.6	8
13	Finding Owen: A Boy's Story	9.6	18
14	Episode #40.14	7.5	8
15	The Mark Carver Case	8.3	10
16	Jonbenet: Grand Juror Speaks	6.0	7
19	Debbie and Carrie: A Hollywood Love Story	9.5	11
20	Scientology: A War Without Guns	8.4	16
22	America's First Family: The Trumps Go to Washington	4.4	11
24	Mary Tyler Moore: After All	7.1	10
25	Lost at Sea	7.1	9
26	Anna Nicole Smith: Tenth Anniversary	7.7	10
29	Truth and Lies: The Family Manson	7.3	61
30	A Boy Named Lucas	6.3	11
33	Episode #40.33	8.0	7
35	Episode #40.35	7.8	10
36	Episode #40.36	1.4	145
37	From Classroom to Captive	7.6	8
38	Episode #40.38	7.7	10
41	Behind the Closed Door	7.3	13
42	Watergate - Truth & Lies	7.9	12
43	A Hostile Act	8.8	7
45	Dying to Be Famous: The Versace Murders	7.6	15
48	Death by Text	7.6	10
50	Fractured America: Extremism in the Streets	6.0	10
53	A Chance Encounter	7.1	12
55	Truth and Lies: The Murder of Laci Peterson	8.1	19

Season 41 (2017)

7.24 avg 40 episodes 7.2 → 7.6 57 min avg

Season 41 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Jackson Family Mystery	7.2	11
2	Love at First Sting	7.3	16
3	Justice for Holly Bobo	7.3	16
4	Las Vegas: Heartbreak and Heroes	7.7	12
5	Shame and Scandal in Hollywood	7.6	7
6	The Killer Clown?	8.2	15
7	27 Days Later: Mystery in Las Vegas	8.5	9
8	Isis in America	7.8	7
11	Lights, Cameras, Christmas! Inside Holiday Movies	6.8	30
12	A Killing on the Cape	7.2	15
14	NXIVM Expose	7.0	11
15	The Story of Gypsy Blanchard	7.1	23
16	Deadly Dynasty	7.0	9
17	House of Horrors	7.7	27
18	Survivors of Dr. Larry Nassar's Abuse	7.6	13
19	Slender Man Attackers	7.3	32
20	New DNA Analysis in a Murder	6.4	15
22	Roseanne: The Return	6.2	12
23	Kayak Killing	6.4	9
24	Forgiving a Killer	7.4	14
25	Mystery at the Mansion	6.7	13
26	Secret Siblings	8.2	12
27	Sabrina: Lost or Stolen?	6.3	13
28	Stranger Than Fiction #2	7.5	14
29	Toxic Love	6.8	16
30	Undercover Mother	6.9	17
31	Suicide or Homicide?	7.6	7
32	My Reality: A Hidden America #2	7.2	11
33	Episode #41.33	6.6	9
34	To Catch a Killer	7.6	14
37	Lights, Camera, Summer!	6.8	9
38	20/20 Presents Brian Ross Ankle-Bracelet	7.6	7
41	Secrets Six Feet Under	7.3	8
42	Hypnosis, Memory & Mystery Solved	7.0	11
43	Family Secrets #2	6.2	14
45	Triumph in Thailand	7.6	7
46	Buried Secrets #2	7.6	9
47	Episode #41.47	8.0	7
48	Thailand Cave Rescue	6.9	9
50	John McCain: Remembering a Maverick	7.6	7

Season 42 (2018)

7.24 avg 44 episodes 8.0 → 7.5 87 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 42 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	What Happened to Abby?	8.0	22
2	Shot in the Dark	7.7	17
3	From Classroom to Captive #2	7.2	10
4	The Real Rookies: A Special Edition of 20/20	6.0	7
5	What Really Killed Prince?	4.6	10
6	The DNA Detective	6.3	13
7	Being Melania -- The First Lady	6.6	12
8	My Son Is Not a Monster	7.5	12
9	Murder in the Mansion	7.3	12
10	The Man Behind the Mask	7.8	7
11	Becoming Michelle: A First Lady's Journey with Robin Roberts	7.7	16
12	Brave New Face	8.3	8
13	Mary Poppins Returns: Behind the Magic	7.6	12
14	Family Secrets #3	7.2	12
15	'Til Death Do Us Part #2	6.7	8
16	The Devil in Disguise	7.0	20
17	George H.W. Bush: Life, Love, Legacy	7.2	8
18	Gypsy Rose Blanchard	6.8	18
19	The Bobbitts: Love Hurts	6.5	13
20	Robert Blake #2	7.7	19
21	Unfaithfully Yours	7.5	21
22	Evil in Eden	7.9	34
23	My Father, BTK	6.7	40
24	Black Widow	7.1	15
25	Bundy	7.4	30
26	The Deadly Ride	7.9	27
27	With Friends Like These	7.8	28
28	Deadly Dance in Texas	6.5	14
29	The Dropout	7.2	28
30	My Mother's Sins	8.1	22
31	The Secret in Her Eyes	7.2	15
32	The Woman in the Suitcase	7.9	19
33	Your Biggest Fan	7.5	25
34	Seed of Doubt	7.2	14
35	The Last Defense	7.7	17
36	Undercover Mother #2	7.4	9
37	One Night in Central Park	7.5	15
38	The Final Act	8.8	15
39	The Perfect Nanny #2	7.4	20
40	President Trump: 30 Hours	4.7	9
41	A Family Affair	6.8	12
42	Main Line Murder	7.5	12
43	The Hustlers	7.5	7
44	30 Years Searching	7.5	19

Season 43 (2019)

7.30 avg 37 episodes 8.2 → 7.5 105 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 43 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Siegfried & Roy: Behind the Magic	8.2	24
2	Sole Survivor	6.9	21
3	Over My Dead Body	7.0	17
4	The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story	7.5	26
5	The Wicked	7.6	23
6	Texas Love Triangle	6.9	12
7	Growing Up Buttafuoco	6.7	28
8	Undercover Girlfriend	8.2	15
9	Manhunter	6.0	11
10	Switched at Birth or Stolen?	8.6	20
11	The Hitman From Pop to Prison	8.0	19
12	Trapped #2	8.8	16
13	Broken Vows	7.6	15
14	Overboard	8.3	17
15	Cutthroat Inc.	7.7	17
16	Life with Bundy	7.5	16
17	Gone in a Flash	6.2	12
18	Shark Tank: Greatest of All Time	5.9	13
19	Last Seen Walking	7.7	18
20	Outbreak: What You Need to Know	7.3	8
21	Catch Me If You Can	8.1	13
22	20/20 Pandemic: What You Need to Know	6.0	10
23	The Chameleon	8.1	25
24	America Rising: Fighting the Pandemic	5.2	11
25	Marni Yang	7.2	12
26	Down Payment on Death	7.5	18
27	The Sins of the Father	7.5	15
28	Our New Reality: A Diane Sawyer Special	8.4	7
29	The Last Defense: Julius Jones -- A Special Edition of 20/20	5.5	11
30	In the Cold Dark Night	7.8	13
31	Regis Philbin: The Morning Maestro -- A Special Edition of 20/20	5.8	10
32	American Catastrophe: How Did We Get Here? -- A Special Edition of 20/20	7.3	16
34	The March	5.9	9
35	Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King	7.4	125
36	I Am Vanessa	7.5	14
37	Mystery in Memphis	8.7	11
38	The Secret in the Suitcase	7.5	19

Season 44 (2020)

7.32 avg 34 episodes 7.0 → 7.2 111 min avg

Season 44 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	John Lennon: His Life, Legacy, Last Days	7.0	87
2	The Perfect Liar	7.7	14
3	A Monster Among Us	7.4	17
4	If Something Happens To Me....	8.0	24
5	Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor	7.8	15
6	Falling From the Sky	8.1	17
7	A Tangled Web	8.2	21
8	Stacey Stites: The Girl in the Pines	7.7	8
10	The Dating Game Killer	7.3	40
11	The List: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?	5.9	35
12	While He Was Sleeping....	7.2	19
13	Tragic Beauty: Anna Nicole Smith	7.7	26
14	True Love Lies	7.6	19
15	Five Weddings & A Murder	7.2	13
16	The Gravedigger's Wife	8.1	15
17	The Devil's Triangle	7.5	17
18	Stranger Than Fiction: The Murder of Angie Dodge	8.5	19
20	Finding Kelsie	7.3	18
21	Inside the Menendez Movement	5.7	12
22	The Devil in Gainesville	8.2	20
23	The Perfect Lie	7.5	18
24	George Floyd: A Man, A Moment, America Changed	4.2	27
26	The Accused	8.6	12
27	One Last Chance: The Trial of Scott Peterson	4.7	20
28	If I Can't Have You...	7.3	10
29	Taken	8.2	15
30	The Real Rebel: The Erin Brockovich Story	7.5	17
31	What Happened to Vanessa?	6.9	11
32	Notorious: Ghislaine Maxwell	6.6	20
33	The Babies of 9/11: Twenty Years Later	7.8	8
35	The Stanford Murders	8.1	10
36	The Millionaire's Mistake	8.2	8
37	The Sinfluencer of Soho	5.9	99
38	9/11: The Day That Changed America	7.2	9

Season 45 (2021)

7.63 avg 27 episodes 6.8 → 7.6 113 min avg

Season 45 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Chippendales Murder	6.8	24
2	The Principal's Wife	7.4	9
3	Do No Harm	7.8	9
4	Life Online: The Last Days of Gabby Petito	6.9	24
5	Sincerely, the Happy Face Killer	7.3	17
6	Good Night, Mother	7.5	15
7	Escape From a House of Horror: A Diane Sawyer Special Event	8.5	137
8	Nowhere to Run: The Armaud Arbery Story	8.2	8
9	Something's Coming: West Side Story	7.3	58
10	The Deadly Take	7.3	18
11	I Now Pronounce You Dead	6.9	19
12	Fall of the House of Murdaugh	7.4	27
13	Adam & Evil	8.2	15
14	ABC 20/20 Gone at Dawn	8.2	23
15	You've Got Jail	7.6	9
16	Home Sweet Murder	7.7	24
17	The Drop Out: The Rise and Con of Elizabeth Holmes	7.7	25
18	The Cult Next Door: The Mystery and Madness of Heaven's Gate	7.4	19
19	The Devil You Know	7.6	15
20	Dead Man Talking	7.7	10
21	Hell in Heels	7.7	19
22	Words to Die By	7.9	13
23	Gone Before the Storm	8.1	16
24	Lock the Door Behind You	7.3	19
25	Double Life, Double Murder	8.2	17
26	Wave of Deceit: Laura Lee Day	7.7	13
27	The Last Hunt	7.6	14

Season 46 (2022)

7.68 avg 39 episodes 8.2 → 7.8 109 min avg

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Season 46 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Last Seen in Lakeland	8.2	22
2	The Vanishing Act	7.6	17
3	The Barefoot Witness	7.7	24
4	The Darkest Night	8.3	24
5	Dial M for Missing	6.1	17
6	Red Handed	8.1	20
7	Girl Scout Murders	7.8	25
8	Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda	6.2	36
9	Divine Intervention	7.9	20
10	Tainted Love	8.5	15
11	Cold to the Touch	8.1	14
12	A Captive Student	8.1	15
13	Doctor Deceit	8.4	18
14	Chippendales Murder	7.8	15
15	I Have Been Watching	8.2	13
16	Horror in Idaho: The Student Murders	7.5	23
17	What the Little Girl Saw	7.9	22
18	New Year's Evil	8.2	23
19	Kill or Be Killed	7.6	22
20	The Kill List	7.3	22
21	House of Cards	7.2	20
22	A Model Murder	6.3	31
23	Murdaugh Family Murders	7.7	23
24	The Confession?	7.6	18
25	The Last Strike	8.0	24
26	Running Out of Time	8.5	21
27	Unholy Matrimony	7.0	18
28	Stranger in the House	6.9	23
29	Secrets of the Lake	6.2	23
30	The Case of the Killer Clown	7.4	21
31	This Is Revenge	6.8	18
32	Rocky Mountain Horror	8.5	22
33	It Happened Here -- A Year in Uvalde	9.1	24
34	Dying to Meet You	7.9	14
35	Where Monsters Hide	7.3	22
36	Never Made It Home	8.2	19
37	Long Island Serial Killer	7.9	20
38	Since You've Been Gone	7.7	23
39	Taken in the Night	7.8	19

Season 47 (2023)

7.22 avg 36 episodes 7.5 → 6.0 111 min avg

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Season 47 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Happily Never After	7.5	23
2	Catch Us If You Can	7.5	20
4	Snatched	7.6	23
5	Deadly Vows	7.0	18
6	She Was Almost Home	7.9	22
7	Dearly Departed	7.3	21
8	First Divorced, Then Dead	7.4	20
9	The One That Got Out	7.6	22
10	Diary of a Killer	7.4	17
12	All American Murder	6.8	19
13	Three Shots in the Dark	7.8	15
14	Missing from the Mall	7.5	20
15	There Is a Monster in Me	7.3	18
16	Gypsy Rose: The Next Act	7.0	26
17	The Murderer in the Minivan	7.4	16
18	Sealed with a Kill	8.0	13
19	Love. Honor. Betray.	7.5	17
20	A Killer Renovation	7.3	15
21	Deadly Night	6.1	9
22	Killer on Campus	7.2	14
23	Into the Darkness	7.4	17
24	Highway Hunter	7.7	13
25	Ruby Franke: From Influencer to Felon	7.9	41
26	Am I Next?	8.2	21
27	How'd You Rather Die?	7.7	19
28	'Til Death Do Us Part (2024)	5.9	20
29	Prisoner in Russia: The Brittney Griner Interview	5.5	22
30	The Hungryland Homicide	7.4	16
31	Forever 17	6.8	19
32	The Unkindest Cut	6.2	19
33	A Deadly Scream	7.1	19
34	Follow the Fingerprints	7.8	14
35	To Have and To Hoax	7.9	18
36	Night Terror	6.9	20
37	Karen Read: The Perfect Storm	6.5	18
38	The Pointe of No Return	6.0	21

Season 48 (2024)

7.08 avg 39 episodes 7.9 → 7.4 114 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 48 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Cold Blooded	7.9	27
2	The Girl Who Looked Like Me	6.9	27
3	The Killer Down the Hall	7.6	27
4	Can I Prey First?	7.4	24
5	The Menendez Brothers: Reversal of Fortune?	7.0	16
6	A Puzzling Murder	7.2	24
7	Her Last Halloween	6.6	18
8	Fire & Vice	7.3	24
9	Fatal Disguise	7.6	21
10	Meet the Other Me	7.7	24
11	Forever Young; Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?	7.4	16
12	Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder	4.2	14
13	Jimmy Carter: A Full Life	6.2	9
14	The Last Text	6.7	24
15	American Catastrophe: LA Burning	6.5	7
16	The Lies Beneath	7.8	17
17	Explosive Secrets	7.2	20
18	Run, Run, Run	7.2	20
19	File M for Murder	7.2	21
20	Small Town Big Con	7.4	22
21	Gabby Petito: Her Parents Speak Out	6.7	23
22	Deadly Night #2	7.5	18
23	The Code Breakers	6.9	24
24	You Left Me for Dead	7.7	25
25	Dirty Little Secret	6.9	18
26	Family Lies?	7.5	22
27	Sex, Knives, and Videotape	7.1	16
28	Unlucky Numbers	7.6	17
29	The Rose Petal Murder	7.3	21
30	Blood on the Door	7.0	23
31	Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies	5.9	17
32	Road Map to Murder	7.5	22
33	The Unkindest Cut (2025)	6.9	10
34	I Have Killed for You	7.2	15
35	Karen Read: The Verdict -- A Special Edition of 20/20	6.3	16
36	They Know Everything	6.5	16
37	Idaho Justice	7.4	19
38	First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder	7.9	19
39	21 Days to Murder	7.4	17

Season 49 (2025)

7.15 avg 33 episodes 7.4 → 8.4 111 min avg

Season 49 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	He's Right Behind You	7.4	32
2	What Happened to the McStays?	7.1	32
3	Life on the Line	7.7	27
4	Driven to Death	8.0	27
5	Lost in the Night: Who Murdered Jessica Currin?	7.0	22
6	The Murdaugh Family Murders	5.7	16
7	You Took My Daughter	7.1	20
9	I'm Going to Get You	6.3	27
10	Final Cut	8.3	21
11	Ride or Die	6.8	20
12	Meddler or Murderer?	7.4	22
13	Badass Detective	7.4	22
14	The Hunt for Mr. Right	7.2	23
15	Her Last Note	7.6	23
16	What the Killer Left Behind	6.1	23
17	Footprints in the Snow (2026)	7.9	21
18	The Au Pair, the Affair and Murder	7.1	20
19	Yogurt Shop Murders	8.4	22
20	Murder at the U	7.5	17
21	The Vanishing of Nancy Woodrum	7.1	25
22	Murder She Wrote: The Kouri Richins Trial	5.9	20
23	The Neighbor From Hell	5.6	28
24	One Last Call	6.4	18
25	Death of a Showgirl	6.6	14
26	The Secret in the Water	7.4	19
27	Tracking Susana	8.1	15
28	Murder Next Door	6.1	19
29	Evil at the Door	7.2	18
30	Stalking Samantha: 13 Years of Terror	8.4	22
31	Her Last Call	5.8	18
32	Where Are You, Jacob?	7.5	20
33	The Trial of Lindsay Clancy -- Special Edition of 20/20	7.4	8
34	Mr. and Mrs. Murder	8.4	9