Castle

(2009)•

8.0

"A whole new chapter in crime solving."

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.

Seasons

173

Episodes

Canceled

Status

March 9, 2009

First Aired

Season Ratings

7.1→7.8

IMDb

Networks: ABC

Genres: Drama, Crime

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Season 1

10 episodes • 2009Avg: 7.3

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Flowers for Your Grave	Mar 9, 2009	7.5
2	Nanny McDead	Mar 16, 2009	7.4
3	Hedge Fund Homeboys	Mar 23, 2009	7.1
4	Hell Hath No Fury	Mar 30, 2009	7.2
5	A Chill Goes Through Her Veins	Apr 6, 2009	7.3
6	Always Buy Retail	Apr 13, 2009	6.7
7	Home Is Where the Heart Stops	Apr 20, 2009	7.3
8	Ghosts	Apr 27, 2009	7.5
9	Little Girl Lost	May 4, 2009	7.3
10	A Death in the Family	May 11, 2009	7.5

Season 2

24 episodes • 2009Avg: 7.5

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Deep in Death	Sep 21, 2009	7.4
2	The Double Down	Sep 28, 2009	7.6
3	Inventing the Girl	Oct 5, 2009	7.1
4	Fool Me Once	Oct 12, 2009	7.8
5	When the Bough Breaks	Oct 19, 2009	7.4
6	Vampire Weekend	Oct 26, 2009	7.5
7	Famous Last Words	Nov 2, 2009	7.4
8	Kill the Messenger	Nov 9, 2009	7.5
9	Love Me Dead	Nov 16, 2009	7.2
10	One Man's Treasure	Nov 23, 2009	7.6
11	The Fifth Bullet	Dec 7, 2009	7.9
12	A Rose for Everafter	Jan 11, 2010	7.1
13	Sucker Punch	Jan 18, 2010	8.2
14	The Third Man	Jan 25, 2010	7.8
15	Suicide Squeeze	Feb 8, 2010	7.4
16	The Mistress Always Spanks Twice	Mar 8, 2010	7.2
17	Tick, Tick, Tick... (1)	Mar 22, 2010	8.4
18	Boom! (2)	Mar 29, 2010	8.1
19	Wrapped Up in Death	Apr 5, 2010	7.4
20	The Late Shaft	Apr 12, 2010	7.3
21	Den of Thieves	Apr 19, 2010	7.5
22	Food to Die For	May 3, 2010	6.8
23	Overkill	May 10, 2010	7.1
24	A Deadly Game	May 17, 2010	7.7

Season 3

24 episodes • 2010Avg: 7.8Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	A Deadly Affair	Sep 20, 2010	8.0
2	He's Dead, She's Dead	Sep 27, 2010	7.7
3	Under the Gun	Oct 4, 2010	7.8
4	Punked	Oct 11, 2010	8.0
5	Anatomy of a Murder	Oct 18, 2010	7.8
6	3XK	Oct 25, 2010	8.1
7	Almost Famous	Nov 1, 2010	6.9
8	Murder Most Fowl	Nov 8, 2010	7.6
9	Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind	Nov 15, 2010	8.0
10	Last Call	Dec 6, 2010	7.9
11	Nikki Heat	Jan 3, 2011	7.5
12	Poof! You're Dead	Jan 10, 2011	7.1
13	Knockdown	Jan 24, 2011	8.5
14	Lucky Stiff	Feb 7, 2011	7.7
15	The Final Nail	Feb 14, 2011	7.0
16	Setup (1)	Feb 21, 2011	8.2
17	Countdown (2)	Feb 28, 2011	8.2
18	One Life to Lose	Mar 21, 2011	7.6
19	Law & Murder	Mar 28, 2011	7.6
20	Slice of Death	Apr 4, 2011	7.5
21	The Dead Pool	Apr 11, 2011	7.8
22	To Love and Die in L.A.	May 2, 2011	8.0
23	Pretty Dead	May 9, 2011	6.9
24	Knockout	May 16, 2011	8.6

Season 4

23 episodes • 2011Avg: 7.8Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Rise	Sep 19, 2011	7.9
2	Heroes & Villains	Sep 26, 2011	8.5
3	Head Case	Oct 3, 2011	7.7
4	Kick the Ballistics	Oct 10, 2011	7.7
5	Eye of the Beholder	Oct 17, 2011	7.6
6	Demons	Oct 24, 2011	8.0
7	Cops & Robbers	Oct 31, 2011	8.0
8	Heartbreak Hotel	Nov 7, 2011	7.2
9	Kill Shot	Nov 21, 2011	7.9
10	Cuffed	Dec 5, 2011	8.3
11	Till Death Do Us Part	Jan 9, 2012	7.1
12	Dial M for Mayor	Jan 16, 2012	7.3
13	An Embarrassment of Bitches	Jan 23, 2012	7.7
14	The Blue Butterfly	Feb 6, 2012	8.1
15	Pandora (1)	Feb 13, 2012	8.1
16	Linchpin (2)	Feb 20, 2012	8.0
17	Once Upon a Crime	Feb 27, 2012	7.7
18	A Dance with Death	Mar 19, 2012	6.6
19	47 Seconds	Mar 26, 2012	8.4
20	The Limey	Apr 2, 2012	7.7
21	Headhunters	Apr 16, 2012	8.2
22	Undead Again	Apr 30, 2012	7.1
23	Always	May 7, 2012	8.4

Season 5

24 episodes • 2012Avg: 7.6Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	After the Storm	Sep 24, 2012	8.2
2	Cloudy with a Chance of Murder	Oct 1, 2012	7.1
3	Secret's Safe with Me	Oct 8, 2012	7.8
4	Murder, He Wrote	Oct 15, 2012	7.2
5	Probable Cause	Oct 29, 2012	8.4
6	The Final Frontier	Nov 5, 2012	8.1
7	Swan Song	Nov 12, 2012	7.4
8	After Hours	Nov 19, 2012	7.8
9	Secret Santa	Dec 3, 2012	7.9
10	Significant Others	Jan 7, 2013	7.5
11	Under the Influence	Jan 14, 2013	7.4
12	Death Gone Crazy	Jan 21, 2013	7.6
13	Recoil	Feb 4, 2013	8.0
14	Reality Star Struck	Feb 11, 2013	7.0
15	Target (1)	Feb 18, 2013	8.1
16	Hunt (2)	Feb 25, 2013	7.9
17	Scared to Death	Mar 18, 2013	7.8
18	The Wild Rover	Mar 25, 2013	7.9
19	The Lives of Others	Apr 1, 2013	7.6
20	The Fast and the Furriest	Apr 15, 2013	7.5
21	The Squab and the Quail	Apr 22, 2013	7.5
22	Still	Apr 29, 2013	7.7
23	The Human Factor	May 6, 2013	6.7
24	Watershed	May 13, 2013	7.5

Season 6

23 episodes • 2013Avg: 7.4

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Valkyrie (1)	Sep 23, 2013	7.8
2	Dreamworld (2)	Sep 30, 2013	7.4
3	Need to Know	Oct 7, 2013	7.5
4	Number One Fan	Oct 14, 2013	7.7
5	Time Will Tell	Oct 21, 2013	7.5
6	Get a Clue	Oct 28, 2013	7.0
7	Like Father, Like Daughter	Nov 4, 2013	7.8
8	A Murder Is Forever	Nov 11, 2013	7.4
9	Disciple	Nov 18, 2013	7.0
10	The Good, The Bad & The Baby	Nov 25, 2013	7.2
11	Under Fire	Jan 6, 2014	7.6
12	Deep Cover	Jan 13, 2014	7.6
13	Limelight	Jan 20, 2014	6.9
14	Dressed To Kill	Jan 27, 2014	7.3
15	Smells Like Teen Spirit	Feb 17, 2014	7.7
16	Room 147	Feb 24, 2014	7.7
17	In the Belly of the Beast	Mar 3, 2014	8.1
18	The Way of the Ninja	Mar 17, 2014	7.8
19	The Greater Good	Mar 24, 2014	7.5
20	That '70s Show	Apr 21, 2014	7.4
21	Law & Boarder	Apr 28, 2014	7.2
22	Veritas	May 5, 2014	8.0
23	For Better or Worse	May 12, 2014	6.1

Season 7

23 episodes • 2014Avg: 7.2

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Driven	Sep 29, 2014	7.0
2	Montreal	Oct 6, 2014	7.2
3	Clear & Present Danger	Oct 13, 2014	7.1
4	Child's Play	Oct 20, 2014	6.9
5	Meme is Murder	Oct 27, 2014	6.9
6	The Time of Our Lives	Nov 10, 2014	7.6
7	Once Upon a Time in the West	Nov 17, 2014	7.2
8	Kill Switch	Nov 24, 2014	6.9
9	Last Action Hero	Dec 1, 2014	7.4
10	Bad Santa	Dec 8, 2014	6.7
11	Castle, P.I.	Jan 12, 2015	8.1
12	Private Eye Caramba!	Jan 19, 2015	7.4
13	I, Witness	Feb 2, 2015	7.5
14	Resurrection (1)	Feb 9, 2015	7.8
15	Reckoning (2)	Feb 16, 2015	7.7
16	The Wrong Stuff	Feb 23, 2015	6.8
17	Hong Kong Hustle	Mar 16, 2015	7.3
18	At Close Range	Mar 23, 2015	6.5
19	Habeas Corpse	Mar 30, 2015	7.3
20	Sleeper	Apr 20, 2015	7.2
21	In Plane Sight	Apr 27, 2015	6.6
22	Dead From New York	May 4, 2015	7.0
23	Hollander's Woods	May 11, 2015	7.8

Season 8

22 episodes • 2015Avg: 7.1

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	XY (1)	Sep 21, 2015	7.6
2	XX (2)	Sep 28, 2015	6.9
3	PhDead	Oct 5, 2015	6.4
4	What Lies Beneath	Oct 12, 2015	7.2
5	The Nose	Oct 19, 2015	7.7
6	Cool Boys	Nov 9, 2015	7.6
7	The Last Seduction	Nov 16, 2015	7.5
8	Mr. & Mrs. Castle	Nov 23, 2015	6.4
9	Tone Death	Feb 8, 2016	7.2
10	Witness for the Prosecution	Feb 14, 2016	6.3
11	Dead Red	Feb 15, 2016	6.7
12	The Blame Game	Feb 22, 2016	7.3
13	And Justice for All	Feb 29, 2016	7.3
14	The G.D.S.	Mar 7, 2016	6.5
15	Fidelis Ad Mortem	Mar 21, 2016	7.5
16	Heartbreaker	Apr 4, 2016	7.4
17	Death Wish	Apr 11, 2016	7.2
18	Backstabber	Apr 18, 2016	7.4
19	Dead Again	Apr 25, 2016	7.6
20	Much Ado About Murder	May 2, 2016	7.1
21	Hell to Pay	May 9, 2016	7.5
22	Crossfire	May 16, 2016	6.8

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