The Good Wife is a legal drama television series created by Robert King and Michelle King, which premiered on CBS on September 22, 2009. The show tells the story of Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), whose husband Peter (Chris Noth) has been jailed following a very public sex and corruption scandal. She returns to her old job as a defense attorney under Will Gardner and Diane Lockhart (Josh Charles and Christine Baranski respectively) to rebuild her reputation and provide for her two children, Grace and Zach (Makenzie Vega and Graham Phillips). All episode titles have the same number of words correlating to the number of the season in which they appear, i.e. all season one episodes have one-worded titles while all season two episodes have two-worded titles.
As of December 11, 2011[update], 57 episodes of The Good Wife have aired.
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Season | Episodes | Originally aired | DVD release dates | ||||
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Season premiere | Season finale | Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | |||
1 | 23 | September 22, 2009 | May 25, 2010 | September 14, 2010[1] | September 20, 2010[2] | August 31, 2010[3] | |
2 | 23 | September 28, 2010 | May 17, 2011 | September 13, 2011[4] | N/A | October 6, 2011[5] | |
3 | N/A | September 25, 2011 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
№ | # | Title | Directed by | Written by | U.S. viewers (million) |
Original air date |
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1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Charles McDougall | Robert King & Michelle King | 13.71[6] | September 22, 2009 |
2 | 2 | "Stripped" | Charles McDougall | Robert King & Michelle King | 13.69[7] | September 29, 2009 |
3 | 3 | "Home" | Scott Ellis | Dee Johnson | 13.69[8] | October 6, 2009 |
4 | 4 | "Fixed" | Dan Minahan | Todd Ellis Kessler | 12.98[9] | October 13, 2009 |
5 | 5 | "Crash" | Gloria Muzio | Ted Humphrey | 13.26[10] | October 20, 2009 |
6 | 6 | "Conjugal" | Rod Holcomb | Angela Amato Velez | 12.74[11] | November 3, 2009 |
7 | 7 | "Unorthodox" | John Polson | Robert King & Michelle King | 13.35[12] | November 10, 2009 |
8 | 8 | "Unprepared" | Jim McKay | Corinne Brinkerhoff | 12.70[13] | November 17, 2009 |
9 | 9 | "Threesome" | James Whitmore, Jr. | Ted Humphrey | 12.53[14] | November 24, 2009 |
10 | 10 | "Lifeguard" | Paris Barclay | Tom Smuts | 14.17[15] | December 15, 2009 |
11 | 11 | "Infamy" | Nelson McCormick | Todd Ellis Kessler | 13.98[16] | January 5, 2010 |
12 | 12 | "Painkiller" | Steve Shill | Corinne Brinkerhoff | 13.87[17] | January 12, 2010 |
13 | 13 | "Bad" | Alex Zakrzewski | Ted Humphrey | 12.72[18] | February 2, 2010 |
14 | 14 | "Hi" | John Gallagher | Robert King & Michelle King & Barry Schkolnick | 14.75[19] | February 9, 2010 |
15 | 15 | "Bang" | Rod Holcomb | Courtney Kemp Agboh | 13.29[20] | March 2, 2010 |
16 | 16 | "Fleas" | Rosemary Rodriguez | Amanda Segel | 13.91[21] | March 9, 2010 |
17 | 17 | "Heart" | Félix Alcalá | Corinne Brinkerhoff | 13.41[22] | March 16, 2010 |
18 | 18 | "Doubt" | Félix Alcalá | Karen Hall | 12.06[23] | April 6, 2010 |
19 | 19 | "Boom" | Lesli Linka Glatter | Ted Humphrey | 12.07[24] | April 27, 2010 |
20 | 20 | "Mock" | Rod Holcomb | Todd Ellis Kessler | 12.88[25] | May 4, 2010 |
21 | 21 | "Unplugged" | Christopher Misiano | Karen Hall | 12.85[26] | May 11, 2010 |
22 | 22 | "Hybristophilia" | Frederick E. O. Toye | Frank Pierson | 12.17[27] | May 18, 2010 |
23 | 23 | "Running" | James Whitmore, Jr. | Robert King & Michelle King & Corinne Brinkerhoff | 10.58[28] | May 25, 2010 |
№ | # | Title | Directed by | Written by | U.S. viewers (million) |
Original air date |
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24 | 1 | "Taking Control" | Félix Alcalá | Robert King & Michelle King | 12.84[29] | September 28, 2010 |
25 | 2 | "Double Jeopardy" | Dean Parisot | Ted Humphrey | 12.76[30] | October 5, 2010 |
26 | 3 | "Breaking Fast" | James Whitmore, Jr. | Corinne Brinkerhoff | 11.82[31] | October 12, 2010 |
27 | 4 | "Cleaning House" | Rosemary Rodriguez | Robert King & Michelle King | 12.17[32] | October 19, 2010 |
28 | 5 | "VIP Treatment" | Michael Zinberg | Robert King & Michelle King | 12.59[33] | October 26, 2010 |
29 | 6 | "Poisoned Pill" | Peter O'Fallon | Keith Eisner | 12.33[34] | November 9, 2010 |
30 | 7 | "Bad Girls" | Jim McKay | Courtney Kemp Agboh | 11.74[35] | November 16, 2010 |
31 | 8 | "On Tap" | Roxann Dawson | Leonard Dick | 10.03[36] | November 23, 2010 |
32 | 9 | "Nine Hours" | Julie Hébert | Meredith Averill | 11.84[37] | December 14, 2010 |
33 | 10 | "Breaking Up" | Félix Alcalá | Robert King & Michelle King | 12.29[38] | January 11, 2011 |
34 | 11 | "Two Courts" | Tom DiCillo | Ted Humphrey | 11.43[39] | January 18, 2011 |
35 | 12 | "Silly Season" | Rosemary Rodriguez | Corinne Brinkerhoff | 12.14[40] | February 1, 2011 |
36 | 13 | "Real Deal" | Michael Zinberg | Story by: Keith Eisner Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
11.86[41] | February 8, 2011 |
37 | 14 | "Net Worth" | Brooke Kennedy | Story by: Meredith Averill Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
11.43[42] | February 15, 2011 |
38 | 15 | "Silver Bullet" | Jim McKay | Story by: Steve Lichtman Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
11.86[43] | February 22, 2011 |
39 | 16 | "Great Firewall" | Nelson McCormick | Story by: Leonard Dick Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
11.38[44] | March 1, 2011 |
40 | 17 | "Ham Sandwich" | Griffin Dunne | Keith Eisner | 11.70[45] | March 22, 2011 |
41 | 18 | "Killer Song" | James Whitmore, Jr. | Karen Hall | 10.16[46] | March 29, 2011 |
42 | 19 | "Wrongful Termination" | Phil Abraham | Ted Humphrey | 10.82[47] | April 5, 2011 |
43 | 20 | "Foreign Affairs" | Frederick E. O. Toye | Story by: Meredith Averill Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
11.05[48] | April 12, 2011 |
44 | 21 | "In Sickness" | Félix Alcalá | Story by: Steve Lichtman Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
12.38[49] | May 3, 2011 |
45 | 22 | "Getting Off" | Roxann Dawson | Leonard Dick | 11.73[50] | May 10, 2011 |
46 | 23 | "Closing Arguments" | Robert King | Story by: Corinne Brinkerhoff Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
12.58[51] | May 17, 2011 |
№ | # | Title | Directed by | Written by | U.S. viewers (million) |
Original air date |
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47 | 1 | "A New Day" | Brooke Kennedy | Story by: Meredith Averill Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
10.66[52] | September 25, 2011 |
48 | 2 | "The Death Zone" | Jim McKay | Story by: Leonard Dick Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
11.08[53] | October 2, 2011 |
49 | 3 | "Get a Room" | David Platt | Story by: Julia Wolfe Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
10.28[54] | October 9, 2011 |
50 | 4 | "Feeding the Rat" | Frederick E. O. Toye | Keith Eisner | 10.33[55] | October 16, 2011 |
51 | 5 | "Marthas and Caitlins" | Felix Alcalá | Ted Humphrey | 9.77[56] | October 23, 2011 |
52 | 6 | "Affairs of State" | Dean Parisot | Corinne Brinkerhoff | 10.60[57] | October 30, 2011 |
53 | 7 | "Executive Order 13224" | Brooke Kennedy | Leonard Dick | 9.07[58] | November 6, 2011 |
54 | 8 | "Death Row Tip" | Joshua Marston | Story by: Matthew Montoya Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
10.24[59] | November 13, 2011 |
55 | 9 | "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" | Rosemary Rodriguez | Robert King & Michelle King & Meredith Averill | 9.79[60] | November 20, 2011 |
56 | 10 | "Parenting Made Easy" | Rosemary Rodriguez | Story by: Courtney Kemp Agboh Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
9.94[61] | December 4, 2011 |
57 | 11 | "What Went Wrong" | James Whitmore, Jr. | Story by: Keith Eisner Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
11.56[62] | December 11, 2011 |
58 | 12 | "Alienation of Affection"[63] | Michael Zinberg | Corinne Brinkerhoff | January 8, 2012 | |
59 | 13 | "Bitcoin for Dummies"[64] | Frederick E. O. Toye | Story by: Courtney Kemp Agboh Teleplay by: Robert King & Michelle King |
January 15, 2012 |