Introduction

An episode is a narrative unit within a larger dramatic work or documentary production, such as a series intended for radio, television or on-line consumption.

Episode derives from the Greek term (Ancient Greek: ἐπεισόδιον) (epeisodion), meaning the material contained between two songs or odes in a Greek tragedy.

It is abbreviated as ep (plural eps).

Outline

• An episode is a coherent narrative unit within a larger dramatic work.
• It is frequently used to describe units of television or radio series that are broadcast separately in order to form one longer series.
• An episode is to a sequence as a chapter is to a book.
• Modern television series episodes typically last 20 to 50 minutes in length.

See Also

• Bottle Episode.