Dawson's Creek (1998)

Drama · Romance

Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.

IMDb rating: 6.8 (49,279 votes)
Episode average: 7.5 ↑ +0.7 vs IMDb
Seasons: 6
Streaming (US): Hulu · Netflix
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 6 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1998)

7.74 avg 13 episodes 7.9 → 8.4 43 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.9	931
2	Dance	7.3	648
3	Kiss	7.5	599
4	Discovery	7.4	556
5	Hurricane	7.8	567
6	Baby	7.5	520
7	Detention	8.4	663
8	Boyfriend	7.2	510
9	Road Trip	7.3	499
10	Double Date	7.5	507
11	The Scare	8.3	619
12	Beauty Contest	8.1	547
13	Decisions	8.4	559

Season 2 (1998)

7.71 avg 22 episodes 7.8 → 8.1 44 min avg

Rebound

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Kiss	7.8	467
2	Crossroads	7.4	431
3	Alternative Lifestyles	7.4	423
4	Tamara's Return	7.6	422
5	Full Moon Rising	7.7	435
6	The Dance	7.8	411
7	The All-Nighter	8.0	454
8	The Reluctant Hero	7.3	390
9	The Election	7.5	393
10	High Risk Behavior	7.5	386
11	Sex, She Wrote	7.9	411
12	Uncharted Waters	7.2	391
13	His Leading Lady	7.4	372
14	To Be or Not to Be...	8.3	445
15	...That Is the Question	8.4	448
16	Be Careful What You Wish For	8.0	410
17	Psychic Friends	7.1	352
18	A Perfect Wedding	7.8	388
19	Rest in Peace	7.8	371
20	Reunited	7.9	367
21	Ch... Ch... Ch... Changes	7.8	351
22	Parental Discretion Advised	8.1	382

Season 3 (1999)

7.73 avg 23 episodes 7.5 → 8.8 43 min avg

Slow burn

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Like a Virgin	7.5	375
2	Homecoming	7.3	351
3	None of the Above	7.2	360
4	Home Movies	7.4	350
5	Indian Summer	7.2	348
6	Secrets and Lies	7.3	341
7	Escape from Witch Island	7.5	408
8	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	7.5	351
9	Four to Tango	7.9	401
10	First Encounters of the Close Kind	7.4	351
11	Barefoot at Capefest	7.2	333
12	Weekend in the Country	8.2	437
13	Northern Lights	7.3	342
14	Valentine's Day Massacre	7.5	358
15	Crime & Punishment	7.9	356
16	To Green, with Love	8.1	396
17	Cinderella Story	7.8	411
18	Neverland	7.8	382
19	Stolen Kisses	8.4	526
20	The Longest Day	8.8	552
21	Show Me Love	7.5	366
22	The Anti-Prom	8.3	426
23	True Love	8.8	663

Season 4 (2000)

7.63 avg 23 episodes 8.0 → 8.1 43 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Coming Home	8.0	378
2	Failing Down	7.4	312
3	Two Gentlemen of Capeside	8.2	364
4	Future Tense	7.6	320
5	A Family Way	7.2	304
6	Great Xpectations	7.5	308
7	You Had Me at Goodbye	8.1	351
8	The Unusual Suspects	7.9	350
9	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	7.7	307
10	Self Reliance	7.4	285
11	The Tao of Dawson	7.3	363
12	The Te of Pacey	7.8	299
13	Hopeless	7.0	287
14	A Winter's Tale	8.2	412
15	Four Stories	7.7	322
16	Mind Games	7.3	287
17	Admissions	7.4	286
18	Eastern Standard Time	7.4	299
19	Late	7.2	287
20	Promicide	7.7	327
21	Separation Anxiety	7.5	280
22	The Graduate	8.0	302
23	Coda	8.1	325

Season 5 (2001)

7.17 avg 23 episodes 7.3 → 7.6 43 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Bostonians	7.3	296
2	The Lost Weekend	7.0	286
3	Capeside Revisited	7.2	285
4	The Long Goodbye	8.5	376
5	Use Your Disillusion	7.0	261
6	High Anxiety	7.2	271
7	Text, Lies and Videotape	6.9	265
8	Hotel New Hampshire	7.4	283
9	Four Scary Stories	6.6	298
10	Appetite for Destruction	7.7	299
11	Something Wild	7.2	266
12	Sleeping Arrangements	7.2	265
13	Something Wilder	7.0	261
14	Guerilla Filmmaking	7.2	289
15	Downtown Crossing	7.1	406
16	In a Lonely Place	6.9	261
17	Highway to Hell	7.2	267
18	Cigarette Burns	7.1	274
19	100 Light Years from Home	7.1	278
20	Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)	6.6	252
21	After Hours	6.8	255
22	The Abby	7.0	253
23	Swan Song	7.6	282

Season 6 (2002)

7.23 avg 24 episodes 7.6 → 9.0 48 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Kids Are Alright	7.6	309
2	The Song Remains the Same	7.2	300
3	The Importance of Not Being Too Earnest	6.7	272
4	Instant Karma!	6.9	280
5	The Impostors	6.6	260
6	Living Dead Girl	6.9	297
7	Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell	6.9	277
8	Spiderwebs	7.0	293
9	Everything Put Together Falls Apart	6.8	270
10	Merry Mayhem	7.3	295
11	Day Out of Days	6.8	270
12	All the Right Moves	6.7	253
13	Rock Bottom	6.6	287
14	Clean and Sober	7.4	326
15	Castaways	8.7	628
16	That Was Then	7.1	274
17	Sex and Violence	7.0	288
18	Love Bites	7.0	288
19	Lovelines	6.3	314
20	Catch-22	6.8	261
21	Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road	7.6	299
22	Joey Potter and Capeside Redemption	8.0	330
23	All Good Things...	8.7	513
24	...Must Come to an End	9.0	745

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