Roseanne (1988)

Comedy · Drama

A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.

IMDb rating: 7.1 (49,910 votes)
Episode average: 7.3 ↑ +0.2 vs IMDb
Seasons: 10
Streaming (US): Peacock
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 10 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1988)

7.58 avg 23 episodes 7.6 → 7.7 23 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Life and Stuff	7.6	653
2	We're in the Money	7.7	490
3	D-I-V-O-R-C-E	7.6	459
4	Language Lessons	7.6	415
5	Radio Days	7.2	443
6	Lovers' Lane	7.9	433
7	The Memory Game	7.3	398
8	Here's to Good Friends	7.2	412
9	Dan's Birthday Bash	8.0	414
10	Saturday	7.5	386
11	Canoga Time	7.3	365
12	The Monday Thru Friday Show	7.2	342
13	Bridge Over Troubled Sonny	7.4	375
14	Father's Day	7.5	355
15	Nightmare on Oak Street	7.8	374
16	Mall Story	7.4	364
17	Becky's Choice	7.6	355
18	The Slice of Life	7.5	352
19	Workin' Overtime	7.4	374
20	Toto, We're Not in Kansas Anymore	8.2	420
21	Death and Stuff	8.0	386
22	Dear Mom and Dad	7.8	376
23	Let's Call It Quits	7.7	395

Season 2 (1989)

7.56 avg 24 episodes 8.0 → 7.3 23 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Inherit the Wind	8.0	414
2	The Little Sister	7.6	355
3	Guilt by Disassociation	7.6	337
4	Somebody Stole My Gal	7.1	339
5	House of Grown-Ups	7.6	337
6	Five of a Kind	7.2	345
7	Boo!	8.6	492
8	Sweet Dreams	4.9	477
9	We Gather Together	8.1	390
10	Brain-Dead Poets Society	8.3	421
11	Lobocop	7.3	334
12	No Talking	7.7	334
13	Chicken Hearts	7.7	361
14	One for the Road	8.1	382
15	An Officer and a Gentleman	8.1	382
16	Born to Be Wild	7.6	354
17	Hair	7.8	342
18	I'm Hungry	7.6	324
19	All of Me	7.1	306
20	To Tell the Truth	7.1	301
21	Fender Bender	7.5	308
22	April Fool's Day	8.0	328
23	Fathers and Daughters	7.6	303
24	Happy Birthday	7.3	304

Season 3 (1990)

7.71 avg 25 episodes 7.6 → 7.7 25 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Test	7.6	311
2	Friends and Relatives	7.5	291
3	Like a Virgin	8.3	339
4	Like, a New Job	8.0	314
5	Goodbye, Mr. Right	7.4	283
6	Becky, Beds and Boys	7.9	311
7	Trick or Treat	8.3	365
8	PMS, I Love You	7.3	331
9	Bird Is the Word	8.0	314
10	Dream Lover	7.6	296
11	Do You Know Where Your Parents Are?	7.7	283
12	Confessions	7.6	279
13	The Courtship of Eddie, Dan's Father	7.3	288
14	The Wedding	7.3	291
15	Becky Doesn't Live Here Anymore	7.7	298
16	Home-Ec	8.0	512
17	Valentine's Day	7.8	303
18	Communicable Theater	7.2	289
19	Vegas Interruptus	7.6	285
20	Her Boyfriend's Back	7.7	283
21	Trouble with the Rubbles	8.1	316
22	Second Time Around	7.4	278
23	Dances with Darlene	7.5	296
24	Scenes from a Barbecue	8.3	400
25	The Pied Piper of Lanford	7.7	308

Season 4 (1991)

7.70 avg 25 episodes 7.9 → 7.6 26 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Bitter Pill to Swallow	7.9	308
2	Take My Bike, Please!	7.6	284
3	Why Jackie Becomes a Trucker	7.7	292
4	Darlene Fades to Black	7.8	290
5	Tolerate Thy Neighbor	7.8	304
6	Trick Me Up, Trick Me Down	8.2	355
7	Vegas	7.2	288
8	Vegas, Vegas	7.1	286
9	Stressed to Kill	7.5	277
10	Thanksgiving 1991	8.0	297
11	Kansas City, Here We Come	7.7	282
12	Santa Claus	8.2	334
13	Bingo	7.8	304
14	The Bowling Show	7.4	302
15	The Back Story	7.7	265
16	Less Is More	7.5	277
17	Breakin' Up Is Hard to Do	7.6	271
18	This Old House	7.8	283
19	The Commercial Show	8.2	307
20	Therapy	7.5	274
21	Lies	7.9	274
22	Deliverance	7.4	265
23	Secrets	7.6	272
24	Don't Make Me Over	7.7	281
25	Aliens	7.6	279

Season 5 (1992)

7.87 avg 25 episodes 7.8 → 7.7 28 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Terms of Estrangement: Part 1	7.8	294
2	Terms of Estrangement: Part 2	8.0	292
3	The Dark Ages	8.1	306
4	Mommy Nearest	7.7	273
5	Pretty in Black	8.1	306
6	Looking for Loans in All the Wrong Places	7.8	284
7	Halloween IV	7.9	355
8	Ladies' Choice	7.7	275
9	Stand on Your Man	7.6	279
10	Good Girls, Bad Girls	8.2	315
11	Of Ice and Men	7.7	264
12	It's No Place Like Home for the Holidays	8.0	323
13	Crime and Punishment	8.9	428
14	War and Peace	8.9	397
15	Lanford Daze	7.3	270
16	Wait till Your Father Gets Home	8.2	308
17	First Cousin, Twice Removed	7.3	270
18	Lose a Job, Winnebago	7.1	269
19	It's a Boy	8.6	319
20	It Was Twenty Years Ago Today	7.5	260
21	Playing with Matches	7.7	270
22	Promises, Promises	7.7	267
23	Glengarry, Glen Rosey	7.6	264
24	Tooth or Consequences	7.7	263
25	Daughters and Other Strangers	7.7	271

Season 6 (1993)

7.58 avg 25 episodes 7.4 → 7.4 25 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Two Down, One to Go	7.4	255
2	The Mommy's Curse	7.3	250
3	Party Politics	7.6	251
4	A Stash from the Past	8.7	453
5	Be My Baby	7.4	253
6	Halloween V	8.0	299
7	Homeward Bound	8.0	265
8	Guilt by Imagination	7.3	248
9	Homecoming	7.3	250
10	Thanksgiving 1993	7.8	260
11	The Driver's Seat	7.6	257
12	White Trash Christmas	7.6	263
13	Suck Up or Shut Up	7.3	260
14	Busted	7.7	267
15	David vs. Goliath	7.8	253
16	Everyone Comes to Jackie's	7.7	248
17	Don't Make Room for Daddy	7.1	244
18	Don't Ask, Don't Tell	7.6	272
19	Labor Day	7.4	259
20	Past Imperfect	7.3	240
21	Lies My Father Told Me	7.9	269
22	I Pray the Lord My Stove to Keep	7.7	267
23	Body by Jake	7.6	252
24	Isn't It Romantic?	7.1	243
25	Altar Egos	7.4	238

Season 7 (1994)

7.25 avg 25 episodes 7.3 → 7.2 24 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Nine Is Enough	7.3	239
2	Two for One	7.2	228
3	Snoop Davey Dave	7.0	233
4	Girl Talk	7.6	236
5	Sleeper	7.5	237
6	Skeleton in the Closet	8.1	301
7	Follow the Son	7.2	240
8	Punch and Jimmy	7.2	229
9	White Men Can't Kiss	7.6	250
10	Thanksgiving 1994	7.0	254
11	Maybe Baby	6.6	241
12	The Parenting Trap	7.7	249
13	Rear Window	7.7	263
14	My Name Is Bev	7.4	229
15	Bed and Bored	7.0	220
16	Sisters	7.0	225
17	Lost Youth	7.2	230
18	Single Married Female	7.0	235
19	All About Rosey	6.7	257
20	Husbands and Wives	6.8	221
21	Happy Trailers	7.4	266
22	The Blaming of the Shrew	7.6	279
23	The Birds and the Frozen Bees	7.5	232
24	Couch Potatoes	6.7	222
25	Sherwood Schwartz--A Loving Tribute	7.2	268

Season 8 (1995)

6.90 avg 25 episodes 7.2 → 7.8 23 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Shower the People You Love with Stuff	7.2	254
2	Let Them Eat Junk	6.9	244
3	Roseanne in the Hood	6.9	255
4	The Last Date	7.1	244
5	Halloween - The Final Chapter	6.0	312
6	The Fifties Show	6.2	285
7	The Getaway, Almost	6.6	259
8	The Last Thursday in November	6.4	279
9	Of Mice and Dan	6.8	269
10	Direct to Video	6.2	222
11	December Bride	7.3	269
12	The Thrilla near the Vanilla Extract	7.3	245
13	White Sheep of the Family	6.9	229
14	Becky Howser, M.D.	7.0	230
15	Out of the Past	6.7	221
16	Construction Junction	7.2	224
17	We're Going to Disney World	6.9	246
18	Disney World War II	6.7	248
19	Springtime for David	6.1	259
20	Another Mouth to Shut Up	7.5	242
21	Morning Becomes Obnoxious	7.0	235
22	Ballroom Blitz	6.5	236
23	The Wedding	7.8	255
24	Heart & Soul	7.6	240
25	Fights & Stuff	7.8	256

Season 9 (1996)

5.70 avg 24 episodes 6.3 → 7.4 23 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Call Waiting	6.3	265
2	Millions from Heaven	6.4	258
3	What a Day for a Daydream	4.8	263
4	Honor Thy Mother	5.8	235
5	Someday My Prince Will Come	5.3	269
6	Pampered to a Pulp	5.2	278
7	Satan, Darling	5.1	332
8	Hoi Polloi Meets Hoiti Toiti	4.9	277
9	Roseambo	2.6	426
10	Home Is Where the Afghan Is	6.1	258
11	Mothers and Other Strangers	5.7	230
12	Home for the Holidays	6.3	238
13	Say It Ain't So	6.3	230
14	Hit the Road Jack	6.0	230
15	The War Room	5.4	240
16	Lanford's Elite	4.9	233
17	Some Enchanted Merger	4.6	229
18	A Second Chance	6.3	221
19	The Miracle	7.2	275
20	Roseanne-Feld	5.9	239
21	The Truth Be Told	5.4	246
22	Arsenic and Old Mom	5.9	276
23	Into That Good Night, Part I	7.1	289
24	Into That Good Night, Part II	7.4	461

Season 10 (2018)

7.54 avg 9 episodes 7.6 → 7.6 21 min avg

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Twenty Years to Life	7.6	1,210
2	Dress to Impress	7.4	758
3	Roseanne Gets the Chair	7.7	689
4	Eggs Over, Not Easy	7.5	560
5	Darlene v. David	8.0	574
6	No Country for Old Women	7.3	464
7	Go Cubs	7.5	471
8	Netflix & Pill	7.3	408
9	Knee Deep	7.6	369

Roseanne (1988)

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