Bones (2005)

Crime · Drama · Mystery

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

IMDb rating: 7.8 (192,244 votes)
Seasons: 12
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video · Hulu · Peacock · YouTube TV · Philo · BBC America
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2005)

7.76 avg 22 episodes 7.5 → 8.7 42 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.5	2,508
2	The Man in the SUV	7.3	1,951
3	A Boy in a Tree	7.5	1,823
4	The Man in the Bear	7.8	1,825
5	A Boy in a Bush	7.8	1,782
6	The Man in the Wall	7.3	1,677
7	The Man on Death Row	8.1	1,765
8	The Girl in the Fridge	7.8	1,702
9	The Man in the Fallout Shelter	8.6	2,173
10	The Woman at the Airport	7.5	1,591
11	The Woman in the Car	7.6	1,566
12	The Superhero in the Alley	7.7	1,616
13	The Woman in the Garden	7.5	1,504
14	The Man on the Fairway	7.4	1,470
15	Two Bodies in the Lab	8.4	1,843
16	The Woman in the Tunnel	7.6	1,478
17	The Skull in the Desert	7.5	1,561
18	The Man with the Bone	7.5	1,480
19	The Man in the Morgue	8.0	1,655
20	The Graft in the Girl	8.2	1,614
21	The Soldier on the Grave	7.5	1,525
22	The Woman in Limbo	8.7	1,764

Season 2 (2006)

7.86 avg 21 episodes 7.5 → 8.1 42 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Titan on the Track	7.5	1,460
2	Mother and Child in the Bay	7.7	1,411
3	The Boy in the Shroud	7.7	1,447
4	The Blonde in the Game	8.1	1,459
5	The Truth in the Lye	7.6	1,385
6	The Girl in Suite 2103	7.5	1,332
7	The Girl with the Curl	7.6	1,452
8	The Woman in the Sand	7.8	1,497
9	Aliens in a Spaceship	9.3	2,770
10	The Headless Witch in the Woods	7.7	1,454
11	Judas on a Pole	8.5	1,681
12	The Man in the Cell	8.6	1,564
13	The Girl in the Gator	7.7	1,397
14	The Man in the Mansion	7.6	1,361
15	The Bodies in the Book	8.0	1,361
16	The Boneless Bride in the River	7.3	1,313
17	The Priest in the Churchyard	7.7	1,340
18	The Killer in the Concrete	7.9	1,354
19	Spaceman in a Crater	7.5	1,274
20	The Glowing Bones in 'The Old Stone House'	7.7	1,312
21	Stargazer in a Puddle	8.1	1,440

Season 3 (2007)

7.89 avg 15 episodes 7.8 → 8.3 42 min avg

Rebound

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Widow's Son in the Windshield	7.8	1,406
2	Soccer Mom in the Mini-Van	7.5	1,329
3	Death in the Saddle	7.2	1,311
4	The Secret in the Soil	7.5	1,277
5	Mummy in the Maze	8.2	1,502
6	Intern in the Incinerator	7.7	1,255
7	Boy in the Time Capsule	7.7	1,272
8	The Knight on the Grid	8.2	1,335
9	The Santa in the Slush	8.4	1,583
10	The Man in the Mud	7.4	1,233
11	Player Under Pressure	7.5	1,268
12	The Baby in the Bough	8.0	1,384
13	The Verdict in the Story	8.5	1,492
14	The Wannabe in the Weeds	8.5	1,563
15	The Pain in the Heart	8.3	1,802

Season 4 (2008)

7.72 avg 25 episodes 7.5 → 7.7 53 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Yanks in the U.K.: Parts 1 and 2	7.5	1,574
3	The Man in the Outhouse	7.3	1,243
4	The Finger in the Nest	7.6	1,288
5	The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond	8.1	1,332
6	The Crank in the Shaft	7.3	1,209
7	The He in the She	7.6	1,371
8	The Skull in the Sculpture	7.3	1,252
9	The Con Man in the Meth Lab	7.7	1,274
10	The Passenger in the Oven	8.2	1,411
11	The Bone That Blew	7.5	1,206
12	Double Trouble in the Panhandle	8.1	1,470
13	Fire in the Ice	7.6	1,332
14	The Hero in the Hold	8.7	1,761
15	The Princess and the Pear	7.6	1,271
16	The Bones That Foam	7.5	1,260
17	The Salt in the Wounds	7.5	1,247
18	The Doctor in the Den	7.7	1,261
19	The Science in the Physicist	7.6	1,240
20	The Cinderella in the Cardboard	7.5	1,190
21	Mayhem on a Cross	8.0	1,492
22	The Double Death of the Dearly Departed	8.5	1,615
23	The Girl in the Mask	7.6	1,328
24	The Beaver in the Otter	7.3	1,189
25	The Critic in the Cabernet	8.1	1,402
26	The End in the Beginning	7.7	1,903

Season 5 (2009)

7.86 avg 22 episodes 7.9 → 8.1 57 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Harbingers in a Fountain	7.9	1,406
2	The Bond in the Boot	7.9	1,253
3	The Plain in the Prodigy	7.8	1,312
4	The Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	7.6	1,221
5	A Night at the Bones Museum	7.9	1,231
6	The Tough Man in the Tender Chicken	7.3	1,146
7	The Dwarf in the Dirt	7.7	1,220
8	The Foot in the Foreclosure	7.8	1,191
9	The Gamer in the Grease	7.5	1,199
10	The Goop on the Girl	8.1	1,420
11	The X in the File	7.8	1,197
12	The Proof in the Pudding	8.5	1,443
13	The Dentist in the Ditch	7.4	1,114
14	The Devil in the Details	7.6	1,154
15	The Bones on the Blue Line	7.7	1,146
16	The Parts in the Sum of the Whole	8.8	1,825
17	The Death of the Queen Bee	8.2	1,348
18	The Predator in the Pool	7.5	1,139
19	The Rocker in the Rinse Cycle	7.3	1,163
20	The Witch in the Wardrobe	8.0	1,231
21	The Boy with the Answer	8.5	1,307
22	The Beginning in the End	8.1	1,257

Season 6 (2010)

7.84 avg 23 episodes 8.1 → 8.5 56 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Mastodon in the Room	8.1	1,309
2	The Couple in the Cave	7.4	1,128
3	The Maggots in the Meathead	7.4	1,194
4	The Body and the Bounty	7.8	1,211
5	The Bones That Weren't	7.5	1,112
6	The Shallow in the Deep	7.9	1,151
7	The Babe in the Bar	7.4	1,076
8	The Twisted Bones in the Melted Truck	7.4	1,076
9	The Doctor in the Photo	8.8	1,926
10	The Body in the Bag	7.5	1,079
11	The Bullet in the Brain	8.5	1,304
12	The Sin in the Sisterhood	7.3	1,055
13	The Daredevil in the Mold	7.6	1,147
14	The Bikini in the Soup	7.6	1,099
15	The Killer in the Crosshairs	7.8	1,159
16	The Blackout in the Blizzard	8.3	1,296
17	The Feet on the Beach	7.6	1,121
18	The Truth in the Myth	7.4	1,094
19	The Finder	7.4	1,817
20	The Pinocchio in the Planter	7.3	1,033
21	The Signs in the Silence	8.7	1,614
22	The Hole in the Heart	9.1	2,141
23	The Change in the Game	8.5	1,660

Season 7 (2011)

7.82 avg 13 episodes 7.9 → 8.7 44 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Memories in the Shallow Grave	7.9	1,396
2	The Hot Dog in the Competition	7.7	1,198
3	The Prince in the Plastic	7.6	1,093
4	The Male in the Mail	7.7	1,135
5	The Twist in the Twister	7.6	1,120
6	The Crack in the Code	8.5	1,368
7	The Prisoner in the Pipe	7.8	1,354
8	The Bump in the Road	7.7	1,076
9	The Don't in the Do	7.5	1,014
10	The Warrior in the Wuss	7.5	990
11	The Family in the Feud	7.5	1,017
12	The Suit on the Set	7.9	1,144
13	The Past in the Present	8.7	1,350

Season 8 (2012)

7.63 avg 24 episodes 8.5 → 7.7 44 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Future in the Past	8.5	1,345
2	The Partners in the Divorce	7.6	1,115
3	The Gunk in the Garage	7.8	1,112
4	The Tiger in the Tale	7.4	1,053
5	The Method in the Madness	7.5	1,010
6	The Patriot in Purgatory	8.8	2,120
7	The Bod in the Pod	7.6	1,041
8	The But in the Joke	7.5	1,025
9	The Ghost in the Machine	6.8	1,743
10	The Diamond in the Rough	7.0	1,113
11	The Archaeologist in the Cocoon	7.6	1,019
12	The Corpse on the Canopy	8.5	1,221
13	The Twist in the Plot	7.3	954
14	The Doll in the Derby	7.4	980
15	The Shot in the Dark	7.8	1,225
16	The Friend in Need	7.7	981
17	The Fact in the Fiction	7.4	951
18	The Survivor in the Soap	7.6	958
19	The Doom in the Gloom	7.4	911
20	The Blood from the Stones	7.3	944
21	The Maiden in the Mushrooms	7.2	943
22	The Party in the Pants	7.3	954
23	The Pathos in the Pathogens	8.3	1,102
24	The Secret in the Siege	7.7	1,117

Season 9 (2013)

7.68 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 8.9 43 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Secrets in the Proposal	7.7	1,154
2	The Cheat in the Retreat	7.5	987
3	El Carnicero en el Coche	7.5	934
4	The Sense in the Sacrifice	8.2	1,131
5	The Lady on the List	7.5	898
6	The Woman in White	8.5	1,287
7	The Nazi on the Honeymoon	7.4	1,038
8	The Dude in the Dam	7.3	895
9	The Fury in the Jury	7.7	911
10	The Mystery in the Meat	7.6	933
11	The Spark in the Park	7.8	1,065
12	The Ghost in the Killer	7.6	899
13	Big in the Philippines	8.2	1,058
14	The Master in the Slop	7.7	915
15	The Heiress in the Hill	7.7	864
16	The Source in the Sludge	7.6	859
17	The Repo Man in the Septic Tank	7.3	859
18	The Carrot in the Kudzu	7.0	839
19	The Turn in the Urn	7.4	841
20	The High in the Low	7.6	844
21	The Cold in the Case	7.3	814
22	The Nail in the Coffin	7.8	854
23	The Drama in the Queen	7.5	867
24	The Recluse in the Recliner	8.9	1,261

Season 10 (2014)

7.52 avg 22 episodes 8.6 → 7.8 43 min avg

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Conspiracy in the Corpse	8.6	1,376
2	The Lance to the Heart	8.3	1,083
3	The Purging of the Pundit	7.1	932
4	The Geek in the Guck	7.4	861
5	The Corpse at the Convention	7.8	866
6	The Lost Love in the Foreign Land	7.6	880
7	The Money Maker on the Merry-Go-Round	7.2	836
8	The Puzzler in the Pit	7.5	875
9	The Mutilation of the Master Manipulator	7.3	850
10	The 200th in the 10th	7.6	1,478
11	The Psychic in the Soup	7.2	865
12	The Teacher in the Books	7.5	815
13	The Baker in the Bits	7.2	787
14	The Putter in the Rough	7.2	774
15	The Eye in the Sky	7.5	807
16	The Big Beef at the Royal Diner	7.2	763
17	The Lost in the Found	7.6	801
18	The Verdict in the Victims	7.7	776
19	The Murder in the Middle East	7.5	807
20	The Woman in the Whirlpool	7.3	755
21	The Life in the Light	7.4	742
22	The Next in the Last	7.8	817

Season 11 (2015)

7.71 avg 22 episodes 8.1 → 8.9 44 min avg

Season 11 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Loyalty in the Lie	8.1	927
2	The Brother in the Basement	8.0	827
3	The Donor in the Drink	7.4	738
4	The Carpals in the Coy-Wolves	7.7	778
5	The Resurrection in the Remains	7.3	923
6	The Senator in the Street Sweeper	7.5	741
7	The Promise in the Palace	7.3	713
8	High Treason in the Holiday Season	7.5	760
9	The Cowboy in the Contest	7.8	795
10	The Doom in the Boom	8.5	870
11	The Death in the Defense	7.6	716
12	The Murder of the Meninist	6.8	824
13	The Monster in the Closet	8.3	792
14	The Last Shot at a Second Chance	7.7	714
15	The Fight in the Fixer	7.6	693
16	The Strike in the Chord	7.1	822
17	The Secret in the Service	7.7	704
18	The Movie in the Making	7.8	881
19	The Head in the Abutment	7.5	687
20	The Stiff in the Cliff	7.8	687
21	The Jewel in the Crown	7.7	680
22	The Nightmare in the Nightmare	8.9	1,016

Season 12 (2017)

7.72 avg 12 episodes 8.3 → 8.2 43 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 12 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Hope in the Horror	8.3	883
2	The Brain in the Bot	7.5	728
3	The New Tricks in the Old Dogs	7.5	729
4	The Price for the Past	7.8	719
5	The Tutor in the Tussle	7.4	686
6	The Flaw in the Saw	7.4	693
7	The Scare in the Score	8.0	744
8	The Grief and the Girl	7.6	710
9	The Steal in the Wheels	7.3	735
10	The Radioactive Panthers in the Party	7.1	682
11	The Day in the Life	8.5	859
12	The Final Chapter: The End in the End	8.2	1,082