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24

Eight full seasons, a ninth that is half length and still counts, a television film that sits between two of them, and a spin-off with a different lead.

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Where to start with 24

Broadcast order and story order are the same thing here, with one exception: the television film Redemption belongs between seasons 6 and 7, not at the end. Everything else is simply in order.

  1. 1
    24, season 1 (Day 1) 24

    Twenty-four episodes covering one day in real time. It is the most self-contained season and it works as a complete story if you never go further.

  2. 2
    24, season 2 (Day 2) 24

    Eighteen months later. It carries over consequences from Day 1 that the show never resets, so it is the first point where the order actually matters.

  3. 3
    24, season 3 (Day 3) 24

    Three years on, the longest gap in the run. Two characters introduced here become the spine of the next three seasons.

  4. 4
    24, season 4 (Day 4) 24

    The largest cast turnover in the show. It opens with almost none of the previous regulars in place, which is deliberate rather than a sign you have missed something.

  5. 5
    24, season 5 (Day 5) 24

    The season most people rate highest, and the one that pays off characters set up in seasons 1 to 4. It loses most of its weight if you arrive cold.

  6. 6
    24, season 6 (Day 6) 24

    Follows directly from the end of Day 5, which is the only cliffhanger the show carries straight across a season break.

  7. 7
    24: Redemption 24: Redemption

    Watch it here. It is a two hour film set roughly three and a half years after Day 6 and sixty-five days before Day 7, and it introduces the incoming president that season 7 opens with.

  8. 8
    24, season 7 (Day 7) 24

    Opens after Redemption and assumes you have seen it. The setting moves to Washington and CTU no longer exists, both of which are set up by the film.

  9. 9
    24, season 8 (Day 8) 24

    Eighteen months later, and the end of the original run. It resolves the storyline that has been running since Day 5.

  10. 10
    24: Live Another Day, season 9 24

    Twelve episodes rather than twenty-four, set four years after Day 8 in London. It still calls itself a day; it just skips hours between episodes.

Then what? That is the whole Jack Bauer run. 24: Legacy is twelve more episodes with an entirely new lead, made in 2017 and cancelled after one season. It is set in the same world, with one returning character, but it needs almost nothing from what came before, so treat it as optional rather than as season ten. There is no eleventh season and no film; a revival has been talked about but nothing has been ordered.

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