One Tree Hill (2003)

Drama · Romance · Sport

In Tree Hill, North Carolina two half brothers share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his skills are appreciated only by his friends at the river court. Popular, affluent Nathan basks in the hero-worship of the town, as the star of his high school team. And both boys are the son of former college ball player Dan Scott whose long ago choice to abandon Lucas and his mother Karen, will haunt him long into his life with wife Deb and their son Nathan.

IMDb rating: 7.8 (96,232 votes)
Episode average: 8.2 ↑ +0.4 vs IMDb
Seasons: 9
Streaming (US): Hulu · HBO Max
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 9 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2003)

8.21 avg 22 episodes 8.3 → 8.8 46 min avg

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Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	8.3	1,380
2	The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most	7.9	904
3	Are You True?	7.9	830
4	Crash Into You	8.1	795
5	All That You Can't Leave Behind	8.0	756
6	Every Night Is Another Story	8.8	962
7	Life in a Glass House	8.1	751
8	The Search for Something More	8.4	787
9	With Arms Outstretched	8.1	732
10	You Gotta Go There to Come Back	8.1	712
11	The Living Years	7.8	671
12	Crash Course in Polite Conversations	8.3	688
13	Hanging by a Moment	8.6	680
14	I Shall Believe	8.5	667
15	Suddenly Everything Has Changed	8.1	634
16	The First Cut Is the Deepest	7.9	630
17	Spirit in the Night	8.4	663
18	To Wish Impossible Things	8.5	666
19	How Can You Be Sure?	8.0	603
20	What Is and What Should Never Be	8.0	593
21	The Leaving Song	8.0	589
22	The Games That Play Us	8.8	720

Season 2 (2004)

8.07 avg 23 episodes 8.1 → 8.8 46 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Desperate Kingdom of Love	8.1	601
2	Truth Doesn't Make a Noise	8.1	559
3	Near Wild Heaven	8.1	554
4	You Can't Always Get What You Want	7.8	516
5	I Will Dare	8.6	646
6	We Might as Well Be Strangers	7.7	522
7	Let the Reigns Go Loose	7.7	515
8	Truth, Bitter Truth	8.1	526
9	The Trick Is to Keep Breathing	7.9	505
10	Don't Take Me for Granted	8.3	544
11	The Heart Brings You Back	7.9	502
12	Between Order and Randomness	7.7	488
13	The Hero Dies in This One	8.1	513
14	The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows	7.9	480
15	Unopened Letter to the World	8.4	530
16	Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking	8.5	513
17	Something I Can Never Have	8.0	486
18	The Lonesome Road	8.0	493
19	I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning	8.3	544
20	Lifetime Piling Up	7.6	521
21	What Could Have Been	7.7	480
22	The Tide That Left and Never Came Back	8.4	515
23	The Leavers Dance	8.8	574

Season 3 (2005)

8.43 avg 22 episodes 8.4 → 9.3 46 min avg

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Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Like You Like an Arsonist	8.4	538
2	From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea	8.0	489
3	First Day on a Brand New Planet	8.0	467
4	An Attempt to Tip the Scales	8.2	505
5	A Multitude of Casualties	8.1	473
6	Locked Hearts and Hand Grenades	7.8	468
7	Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends	8.2	483
8	The Worst Day Since Yesterday	8.0	460
9	How a Resurrection Really Feels	8.8	558
10	Brave New World	7.9	456
11	Return of the Future	8.0	437
12	I've Got Dreams to Remember	8.2	469
13	The Wind That Blew My Heart Away	9.0	656
14	All Tomorrow's Parties	8.6	553
15	Just Watch the Fireworks	8.8	529
16	With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept	9.6	2,620
17	Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them	9.0	609
18	When It Isn't Like It Should Be	8.5	545
19	I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me	8.2	473
20	Everyday Is a Sunday Evening	8.4	531
21	Over the Hills and Far Away	8.4	506
22	The Show Must Go On	9.3	809

Season 4 (2006)

8.44 avg 21 episodes 8.3 → 9.3 48 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Same Deep Water as You	8.3	550
2	Things I Forgot at Birth	7.6	471
3	Good News for People Who Love Bad News	7.9	456
4	Can't Stop This Thing We've Started	7.9	458
5	I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness	8.6	552
6	Where Did You Sleep Last Night?	7.9	451
7	All These Things That I've Done	7.8	451
8	Nothing Left to Say But Goodbye	8.3	472
9	Some You Give Away	9.5	1,377
10	Songs to Love and Die By	8.8	618
11	Everything in Its Right Place	8.0	453
12	Resolve	8.2	469
13	Pictures of You	9.2	871
14	Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers	8.5	481
15	Prom Night at Hater High	8.7	526
16	You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love	8.9	588
17	It Gets Worse at Night	8.4	492
18	The Runaway Found	8.3	469
19	Ashes of Dreams You Let Die	8.4	468
20	The Birth and Death of the Day	8.8	523
21	All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone	9.3	872

Season 5 (2008)

8.21 avg 18 episodes 8.7 → 8.8 45 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	4 Years, 6 Months, 2 Days	8.7	663
2	Racing Like a Pro	8.1	478
3	My Way Home Is Through You	8.0	428
4	Its Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)	7.8	421
5	I Forgot to Remember to Forget	8.5	461
6	Don't Dream It's Over	7.9	417
7	In da Club	8.1	435
8	Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want	7.9	412
9	For Tonight You're Only Here to Know	8.5	475
10	Running to Stand Still	8.0	437
11	You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side	8.2	426
12	Hundred	9.1	589
13	Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace	8.1	493
14	What Do You Go Home To?	7.9	376
15	Life Is Short	8.0	393
16	Cryin' Won't Help You Now	8.0	384
17	Hate Is Safer Than Love	8.2	445
18	What Comes After the Blues	8.8	513

Season 6 (2008)

8.20 avg 24 episodes 8.7 → 9.2 47 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Touch Me I'm Going to Scream: Part I	8.7	566
2	One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning	8.4	459
3	Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.	9.2	691
4	Bridge Over Troubled Water	8.0	399
5	You've Dug Your Own Grave, Now Lie in It	8.3	407
6	Choosing My Own Way of Life	7.9	386
7	Messin' with the Kid	8.2	409
8	Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe	8.0	378
9	Sympathy for the Devil	8.0	372
10	Even Fairy Tale Characters Would Be Jealous	8.0	395
11	We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)	6.4	597
12	You Have to Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devil's Brain)	8.5	429
13	Things a Mamma Don't Know	8.6	422
14	A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene	8.1	406
15	We Change, We Wait	8.1	365
16	Screenwriter's Blues	8.2	411
17	You and Me and the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight	8.3	423
18	Searching for a Former Clarity	7.9	393
19	Letting Go	8.0	364
20	I Would for You	7.9	353
21	A Kiss to Build a Dream On	7.7	352
22	Show Me How to Live	8.4	376
23	Forever and Almost Always	8.9	483
24	Remember Me as a Time of Day	9.2	661

Season 7 (2009)

7.90 avg 22 episodes 7.5 → 8.4 53 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	4:30 AM (Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad)	7.5	414
2	What Are You Willing to Lose	7.4	343
3	Hold My Hand as I'm Lowered	7.6	340
4	Believe Me, I'm Lying	7.6	331
5	Your Cheatin' Heart	7.5	333
6	Deep Ocean Vast Sea	7.7	328
7	I and Love and You	8.9	455
8	I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight	8.1	361
9	Now You Lift Your Eyes to the Sun	7.6	331
10	You Are a Runner, and I Am My Father's Son	7.8	327
11	You Know I Love You, Don't You	7.8	332
12	Some Roads Lead Nowhere	8.4	361
13	Weeks Go by Like Days	7.8	326
14	Family Affair	8.1	327
15	Don't You Forget About Me	8.1	379
16	My Attendance Is Bad But My Intentions Are Good	8.0	323
17	At the Bottom of Everything	7.8	320
18	The Last Day of Our Acquaintance	8.6	361
19	Every Picture Tells a Story	7.7	313
20	Learning to Fall	7.6	306
21	What's in the Ground Belongs to You	7.8	312
22	Almost Everything I Wish I'd Said the Last Time I Saw You	8.4	397

Season 8 (2010)

7.95 avg 22 episodes 8.1 → 8.5 48 min avg

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Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Asleep at Heaven's Gate	8.1	374
2	I Can't See You, But I Know You're There	7.8	334
3	The Space in Between	8.0	329
4	We All Fall Down	7.6	319
5	Nobody Taught Us to Quit	7.9	301
6	Not Afraid	7.8	328
7	Luck Be a Lady	7.8	308
8	Mouthful of Diamonds	7.6	303
9	Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace	8.2	333
10	Lists, Plans	7.8	321
11	Darkness on the Edge of Town	9.1	559
12	The Drinks We Drank Last Night	8.7	409
13	The Other Half of Me	8.4	346
14	Holding Out for a Hero	7.5	345
15	Valentine's Day Is Over	7.5	312
16	I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here	7.7	288
17	The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get	7.8	291
18	Quiet Little Voices	7.6	318
19	Where Not to Look for Freedom	7.7	284
20	The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul	7.8	307
21	Flightless Bird, American Mouth	8.0	304
22	This Is My House, This Is My Home	8.5	385

Season 9 (2012)

8.33 avg 13 episodes 8.2 → 9.2 49 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Know This, We've Noticed	8.2	450
2	In the Room Where You Sleep	7.6	316
3	Love the Way You Lie	7.7	322
4	Don't You Want to Share the Guilt?	8.1	331
5	The Killing Moon	8.1	323
6	Catastrophe and the Cure	7.9	306
7	Last Known Surroundings	8.2	369
8	A Rush of Blood to the Head	8.4	343
9	Every Breath Is a Bomb	8.1	302
10	Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will	9.1	443
11	Danny Boy	9.4	680
12	Anyone Who Had a Heart	8.3	335
13	One Tree Hill	9.2	913